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What Makes Middle Schools Work:   As school administrators and teachers tackle the challenge of improving the performance of middle school students, particularly of closing the achievement gap for students with special needs and/or from underperforming llinguistic or socioeconomic groups, identifying and understanding the ways that higher-achieving schools achieve consistent success is important.

What Makes High Schools Work:  This report shows how some of New York’s high schools consistently succeed in achieving higher academic performance than demographically similar schools. With the rapid development of methods and technologies to more closely monitor student achievement, new instructional models to adapt to the increasing diversity in schools, shifts in understanding teaching and learning, and changes in the way educators think about the purposes and processes of secondary schooling, the most successful high schools have been able to adapt, and they and their students are thriving.