A New High School Movement Rises – by Bruno V. Manno

Tena Fenton, a Match Beyond/College for America program graduate and coach, worked with a student. From 1910 to 1940, a grassroots effort commonly described as the high school movement led to a “spectacular educational transformation” in America, according to Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz. The movement raised enrollment of 18-year olds to 71 percent from 1...