June 16, 2009
Newsweek: University Park Campus School among nation's top
Newsweek magazine has again named University Park Campus School, which operates as a partnership between Clark University's Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education and the Worcester Public Schools, among the nation's top public high schools.
Clark and UPCS were also featured in the WBUR/WGBH public radio and TV series called "Project Dropout." Virtually every student at UPCS has gone on to post-secondary education (including at Clark) and UPCS and Clark "are getting attention from educators around the world," WBUR reported.
Together, Clark and the Worcester Public Schools opened the University Park Campus School to ensure that students in the neighborhood would have access to a strong college-preparatory high school program. Clark also invests in other schools in the neighborhood; each is a "professional development school," a clinical training site in Clark's collaborative teacher education program. And Clark offers free tuition to any student who has lived in the neighborhood for five years and is accepted through the regular admission process.
Online media coverage:
3 area schools named to top list
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 6/14/2009
Newsweek 6/8/2009