http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/16880048.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

It's a bit embarassing when an outsider beats you to a backyard story. But that's no reason to ignore a good story in the Herald Leader.

Highland Elementary School has turned things around in a major way.  Its CATS score leaped 20 index points in a single year, a feat accomplished by only 4 Kentucky schools. Suspensions went down to single digits. 

The Leader article describes Highland's formula for success so I won't go into t here. But here are some logical questions that it raises?

Is there anything here that other struggling elementary schools can or SHOULD learn from?

What about middle and high schools?

More importantly, can Highland keep this progress going when it merges with Morningside in Aug and become Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary?