Baltimore’s ‘innovation schools’ yield higher test scores

The five-year effort to break Baltimore’s big high schools into smaller, more autonomous schools seems to be paying off with better academic results and attendance, offering new evidence backing a reform that has stalled nationwide in recent years.

By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY

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