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Transition Out of High School
High School Standards for Transitions Out | Dual Enrollment and Advanced Placement | Early College High Schools | Career and Technology Education |
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The transition from high school into the collegiate or workforce environments is a key turning point in the lives of young people. The vast majority of jobs in today's economy require education attainment and technical skills. Regardless of their career or academic path after high school, young people must be knowledgeable and informed about the world in which they live and have the capacity to grapple with complex problems in order to maximize their professional and personal success. Students who enter the workforce immediately upon high school graduation now need at least the same level of skills and knowledge as students entering college, as both universities and employers seek the same core abilities.1
High School Standards for Transitions Out
Evaluating the Impact of Interventions That Promote Successful Transitions from High School
This research brief examines the challenges and opportunities presented in evaluating whether an intervention achieves defined goals of increasing students’ educational attainment, employment, and earnings after high school. (August 2008)
Preparing High School Students for Successful Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Employment
This issue brief highlights lessons from selected policies and programs designed to improve students’ preparation for postsecondary pathways. The publication summarizes core characteristics of popular interventions in a user-friendly chart, poses overarching implementation questions and challenges, and includes considerations for students with disabilities. (August 2008)
Striking the Balance: Career Academies Combine Academic Rigor and Workplace Relevance
This snapshot takes a closer look at the implementation of the Career Academy model, an innovative approach to infuse life relevancy and critical thinking skills into the academic curriculum, in a high school in Oakland, California. Painting a picture of one high school's experience, the resource documents the mechanics of the program, how it prepares students for college, and the challenges encountered along the way. (August 2008)
Transitioning Out of High School: A Quick Stats Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides statistics describing the current status of high school graduates' readiness for life after high school. It highlights some of the challenges and opportunities facing high school students after graduation as well as some of the consequences and implications for America’s underprepared graduates. (October 2007)
Using the Right Data to Determine if High School Interventions Are Working to Prepare Students for College and Careers
This report is designed to guide educators in collecting and analyzing valuable student achievement data that can help them determine if and how high school interventions for underprepared students are working to effectively prepare them for college and careers. The report was authored by Chrys Dougherty, a senior research scientist at the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA), which is a partner of the National High School Center. (January 2010)
2008 National High School Center Summer Institute Breakout on Transitions Out of High School
This session highlighted the current research base on key transition points in high school and effective practices and resources to assist with these critical steps for all students.
Aligned Expectations? A Closer Look at College Admissions and Placement Tests
This report by Achieve, Inc. strives to help inform state decision-making regarding the inclusion of college admissions (ACT, SAT) and placement tests (ACCUPLACER, COMPASS) into their high school assessment and accountability systems.
Are New York City’s Public Schools Preparing Students for Success in College?
This report from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University is part of the Education Policy for Action: Challenges Facing New York City series. The author examines high school graduation data and college enrollment and persistence rates among students in New York City, concluding that policymakers should reexamine college readiness standards and the systems that are supposed to ensure that all students are prepared for postsecondary success.
College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
This report, produced by Education Sector, argues that the current system for determining adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act is too limiting and does not consider factors of college- and career-readiness as indicators of student success. It praises Florida, Ohio, and Oregon as models for how schools should track high school students’ performance after graduation.
Current Challenges and Opportunities in Preparing Rural High School Students for Success in College and Career: What Federal Policymakers Need to Know
This fact sheet, published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, includes statistics on the demographic characteristics and postsecondary pathways of rural high school students. It presents data on socioeconomic status and high school graduation and compares them to data on students in cities, towns, and suburbs.
Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do
Access to higher education remains a challenge for many students who face academic and informational barriers to college entry. This guide targets high schools and school districts, and focuses on effective practices that prepare students academically for college, assist them in completing the steps to college entry, and improve their likelihood of enrolling in college.
High School Standards and Expectations for College and the Workplace
This report compares existing state standards for what students should know and be able to do in English language arts and mathematics with expectations common to two national studies on skills needed for entry to college and the workplace. The report was produced by the Regional Education Laboratory at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.
Improving Academic Preparation for College: What We Know and How State and Federal Policy Can Help
This report from the Center for American Progress reviews the research on college readiness and makes the case for a definition of college readiness that includes academic rigor, the academic skills that students will need to be successful in postsecondary study, and knowledge about how to apply to and succeed in college.
Increasing College Success: A Road Map for Governors
This issue brief, produced by the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, highlights the growing need for advanced skills and college graduates in the workforce. It recommends actions that states can take to increase students’ chances at college success.
The Link between High School Reform and College Access and Success for Low-Income and Minority Youth
An extensive, methodical resource from the American Youth Policy Forum and Pathways to College Network which describes comprehensive school reform models designed to increase college access for low-income and minority youth.
Preparing All Students for Postsecondary Success
Even as educators and legislators ramp up the next round of education reform, federal data show that some 80 percent of low-income students are not leaving high school ready for life in the workplace or on the college campus. This report issues a wide-ranging set of recommendations that called on decision-makers to step up alignment of graduation requirements with what colleges and employers say they want.
Preparing Students for College and Career: California Multiple Pathways
This issue brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education focuses on an innovative high school reform strategy in California that combines rigorous college preparation with workplace exposure in an effort to improve student engagement, academic achievement, and success after high school.
A New Goal for America’s High Schools: College Preparation for All
In this policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to high school reforms, Ron Haskins and James Kemple examine the steps States are taking to ensure that all students have the necessary skills to attend and succeed in college.
Race to the Top: Accelerating College and Career Readiness in States
This set of four guides from Achieve, Inc., are designed to help state leaders look at the Race to the Top (RTTT) competition through a college- and career-ready lens, offering specific advice and promising practices that policymakers can use to build on their successes and maximize the opportunities available through RTTT.
Success at Every Step: How 23 Programs Support Youth on the Path to College and Beyond
This guide from the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) describes programs that prepare high school students for graduation, postsecondary success, and careers. It is designed to help national, state, and local policymakers and practitioners better understand how to support college- and career-readiness for all students.
Taking Root: Lessons Learned for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda
In this issue brief, Achieve’s American Diploma Project Network presents ten strategies that state policymakers may use in order to implement and sustain a college- and career-ready agenda.
1 "Who's In, Who's Out: America's Sorting Machine." 1 December 2005. WETA. 2004.
