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The Early College High School Initiative (1) might sound like another attempt to reform schools by reorganizing words and old ideas, but it’s not. The Early College High School Initiative is designed to create and support small independent high schools that combine the goals and standards of high school and the first two years of college. Specifically, the initiative targets students who are underrepresented in college: students of color, English language learners, and students for whom the cost of college is prohibitive. The initiative is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2), the Carnegie Corporation of New York (3), the Ford Foundation (4), and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (5). Historically, these foundations have provided support for innovative and thoughtful institutional change in systems where internal support for change and innovation has been scarce. The Internet and other technologies have changed the workplace as well as our economic and social infrastructure. We live in an age in which knowing how to find and use knowledge has trumped being able to remember information. As a result, more corporations and leaders are supporting and funding school restructuring that prepares students for a future workplace that wil