Threshold Magazine
Spring 2006
The Spring 2006 issue of
Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on New Thinking About High School Reform, produced in partnership with the
Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
 | New Thinking About High School Reform
Visionary authors Milt Goldberg, Burck Smith, and Julie Young explore how high schools could use time differently, improve productivity, and adapt learning spaces. |
| Models of Reform: A Threshold Forum
A panel of national leaders of educators at the classroom, school board, and state levels—John Wilson, Joseph S. Villani, and Jennifer Dounay—discuss the imperative and the means for high school reform. |
| Solving the High School Reform Puzzle
Piecing together the key considerations in high school reform. |
| Re-visioning High School
Kathleen Fulton examines how three districts created new visions of what high school should be in the 21st century—and what we can learn from their work. |
| Is Having the Right Answer Enough?
Margaret Honey, Shelley Pasnik, and Chad Fasca look at developing new forms of assessment for 21st century learning. |
| Building a 21st Century High School
Paul Curtis shares lessons from New Technology High: Planning, building, and running a new kind of high school for a new kind of student. |
| Download chart comparing New Tech High design principles with those of traditional high schools, click here. |
| | Departments |
| About Threshold
Who we are, what we do, and why. |
| Explorations
Results That Matter: Helen Soulé and Ken Kay discuss the essential purpose and role of the American high school and why reform is needed. |
| Contributors
About the authors in this issue. |
| In Focus
High School Reform: By the Numbers. |
