Restructuring
In 2003, Oshkosh West High School restructured its classes to create "Smaller Learning Communities" (SLC), where students learn within a smaller set of the school population. In achieving SLC, West phased in "freshman core teams", where freshman students are assigned to classes within groups so that all the students in a core team have the same teachers for their core subjects. The core system has cut the freshman failure rate (the percentage of students who fail at least one class) from 28% to 14%. How core teams will be implemented in the upper classes is not known.
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