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  • When DeLorenzo became the district's top official, he said, the school system moved away from a system that awarded students credit primarily for spending a designated amount of time in class."Kids graduate when they're 18, whether they're ready or not," he said.
  • Instead, students needed to demonstrate they had mastered class materials before they could move onto the next level. That shift in habit transformed the Anchorage-based Chugach School District, DeLorenzo said.
  • "For the first time, students knew what they had to learn and teachers knew what they had to teach," a rare occurrence in American schools, he said.
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  • The district did away with the traditional system of letter grades and involved students in planning curriculum, DeLorenzo said. Students became excited about their school work, and standardized test scores gradually rose.
  • Today, according to DeLorenzo, 92 percent of Chugach graduates go onto college.
  • Gunnison Watershed on 03 Nov 09
     
    Short article on the RISC model in Maine.
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