Question

"Pride ofCommunity HighSchools Can BeAgain"
by Robert Balfanz and John Bridgeland
The American high school has played a storied,unappreciated role in our nation’s success.Through much of the last century, it served as adriver of individual mobility, economic growth,and social cohesion. The provision of universalpublic high schooling provided an avenue ofadvancement for families of modest means andover time, impoverished and discriminatedcommunities. In many areas, students from thewealthy and poor sides of town sat side by sidein classrooms and experienced the rituals ofhigh school together.
Today, however, in the places that need themthe most — locales that have been unable tomake the pivot from the 20th to 21st centuryeconomy — there are too many high schoolsno longer fulfilling that promise. After more thana decade of progress in improving high schoolgraduation rates, there remain about 1,300traditional high schools in need of seriousimprovement and redesign. From the inner cityto the heartland of America, these low-performing high schools are concentrated instruggling communities that sit at the fault linesof race, class, and inequality in America.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Near the end of the passage, why do theauthors mention Tacoma, Fresno, Austin,and Cleveland?
(1 point)
to prove that increasing graduation
rates leads to the development of new
businesses
to suggest that these cities implement
changes to their high schools
to give examples of places where
communities improved their high
schools
to encourage people in struggling
communities to move to one of these
cities

Answer 1

to give examples of places where communities improved their high schools

They’re cited as specific examples of communities that successfully made changes to strengthen their high schools.