In about 1990, I started working on a project called New Designs for the Comprehensive High School. It was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. We explored what the learning expectations and outcomes might be, the learning process, how the school should be organized, who the partners might be, how you'd staff a school like this, how you'd finance it. Those are the three major pieces. If you want to make sure that no students get left behind, you need to create smaller learning environments.
Teachers can be more responsive to more of their students.
We already have a lot of small schools in this country. You have to change the way you do learning in the school. Break out of the ruts in terms of how we do school in this country. But if we keep designing new schools just like our old schools, we're not going to get any better results than we get today. And in most of today's schools, we already know who's going to win and who's going to lose.