High School Graduation – K12 strategies that work

Avis Glaze was an impressive keynote speaker at our recent conference on Character, Culture and Values held at Glasgow University. This book explains the hugely successful Ontario project for sustained school improvement focusing on the twin objectives of excellence and equity. It should be required reading in all education departments. The authors take the reader through key concepts and strategies for implementation applied both to primary and secondary schools. Leadership across the school is a key component and they also explain other factors important in improving graduation rates. The figures speak for themselves with a great deal of supporting detail. It seemed to me that the challenges faced by Ontario can be generalised to many other countries and that the evidence base makes their conclusions robust. There are also checklists as appendices to facilitate implementation.