Highlights

Need help Paying for College? Get the NEW 2007-08 EDITION OF THIS GUIDE!

The Scholarships For New York City Students 2007-08 guide is the resource you need to help you find the money. Download a copy today or have copies sent to you by completing this form.

Final New Century High School Report Released

New report on New Century High Schools by Policy Studies Associates concludes four-year longitudinal analysis of the initiative. Read the press release or the final report for more details.

The NEW 2007 Citi College Planning Guide is now on the web

Get the tool to help your high schooler get ready for college.

Download the pdf.

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Help your child to become a better reader and learner.

This guide gives parents tips and practices to help children excel in literacy.

You can also download the guide in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish or Urdu.

For more tips on promoting your child's love of reading, check out this webpage on Reach Out and Read site.

READ ABOUT THE LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE NEW CENTURY HS INITIATIVE.

Download your free copy.

GET THE 2007 EDITION OF BRANDED ENVIRONMENTS!

Visual branding is a powerful tool not only to establish identity but also to delineate and unify disparate spaces in high school campus buildings. These publications present the elements of visual branding and provide a step-by-step guide to the process for visual branding.

The step-by-step guide is attached to the pdf of Branded Environments.

Study Shows Students Excel In New Century High Schools.

Report Finds Students in NCHS Schools Are Being Promoted from Ninth to Tenth Grades at a Rate of 84%, 12 Percentage Points Higher Than Citywide Average; 77% of NCHS Eleventh Graders Are On Track to Graduate On Time, a Rate 23 Percentage Points Higher Than Citywide Graduation Rate.

New York, NY, June 22, 2006 -- An independent study of 75 New Century High Schools (NCHS) shows that students in these schools have better student outcomes, including higher attendance rates, credit accumulation rates, and promotion rates, than other high schools within New York City’s public school system. The researchers concluded that “students educated in NCHS schools in 2004-05 were better prepared for graduation than comparable students in traditional schools. | more...

Click here for the rest of the press release and the pdf of the report.

How can several small schools exist in one building?
Our planing guide, From Large School Buildings to Small School Campuses: Orchestrating the Shift, can answer many questions about the process.

The guide describes the standardization and process of how small schools share space with one another and with large schools in substantially redesigned campus buildings that once housed only one large school. The book covers the redesign of 21 school buildings of various sizes and configurations into small high school campuses.

The planning guide is a 19-megabyte pdf and is online for downloading.

Read Reframing Education: The Partnership Strategy and Public Schools.

Dr. Janice M. Hirota, a New Visions Senior Program Officer, has conducted a study that examines New Century High School Initiative partnerships--what they look like, how they operate and how they contribute to particular new high schools and to the Initiative more generally.

If you wish to learn more about how partnerships work in collaboration with small high schools, please download the report.

Want to know how the New Century High School are doing?

The interim report card, New Century High Schools and the Small Schools Movement in New York City tell you have well the small schools are performing thus far.