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Hernandez, Alex; Kaplan, Melissa Aul; Schwartz, Robert – Educational Leadership, 2006
View Park Preparatory High School, a charter school serving low-income urban students in Los Angeles, makes critical thinking the center of its literacy curriculum. The school's literacy program has a single, measurable goal: By graduation, every student will be able to write a 500-word sustained argument free of mechanical error, reflecting his…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Literacy