LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (3)

David Starr Jordan High School to improve coordination with feeder schools, advertise courses and activities of interest to younger students, and expand laboratories and clinics in mathematics, reading, and writing.

Abraham Lincoln High School to expand a student peer counseling program to serve incoming junior high school students needing special attention, develop a language laboratory for students with limited English-language skills, and introduce a course for incoming ninth-graders in study skills, test taking, and management of time.

George Washington Preparatory High School to expand peer counseling and tutoring programs, establish a teacher counseling system to motivate students to select challenging courses, and strengthen parents' efforts to improve student attendance.

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE (1)

Carver High School for a program to improve student study habits, using volunteer tutors from the community.

MIAMI, FLORIDA (1)

Miami Edison Senior High School to provide special assistance to its many Haitian and Hispanic immigrant students to enable them to pass state competency examinations.

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (2)

Solomon Juneau Developmental City-Wide High School to expand a diagnostic testing program to identify students' academic deficiencies and to devise alternative teaching approaches for students who fail to reach minimum competency. The emphasis will be on tailoring instruction to students' needs to ensure that they achieve at least minimum competency levels before being passed to the next grade.