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Matthew N. Atwell; Andrew Tucker – Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, 2024
This report examines state portraits of a graduate and how state strategies for development and implementation can support future readiness. It also provides recommendations for state education agencies to consider to lift up the importance and visibility of these portraits. Several states have begun the process of developing a…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, State Action, Futures (of Society)
Raye L. Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Pennsylvania Department of Education revised the statewide graduation requirement (Act 158) to include postsecondary preparedness effective with the 2023 graduation class. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was adopted to mandate schools to provide the resources to assist students to meet academic standards leading to career and college…
Descriptors: School Counselors, High Schools, Counselor Role, Postsecondary Education
Amy Stornaiuolo; Laura Desimone; Morgan Polikoff – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study examines implementation of college-and-career-ready (CCR) education standards across five school districts in Ohio, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Drawing on the policy attributes theory, we found that the specificity of districts' approaches to two long-recognized policy levers, curriculum and professional…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Academic Standards, College Readiness, Career Readiness
David A. Woods – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Dual enrollment programs have been in existence for decades in public high schools in the United States. While there is literature on the academic impact of these programs with a focus on high school and college outcomes, there is a gap in the literature regarding what is known about students' experiences in dual enrollment programs that allow…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Student Experience, Rural Schools, College Readiness
Edgerton, Adam Kirk – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Cynthia Coburn, in her 2016 article in the "American Journal of Education"--"What's Policy Got to Do With It?"--states that the field of policy implementation suffers from the propensity to learn the same lessons over and over again. This repetition of mistakes, I argue, stems from a failure to account for predictable patterns…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Common Core State Standards
Allison R. Lombardi; Graham G. Rifenbark; H. Jane Rogers; Hariharan Swaminathan; Ashley Taconet; Valerie L. Mazzotti; Mary E. Morningstar; Rongxiu Wu; Shannon Langdon – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2023
The purpose of this study was to establish construct validity of a college and career readiness measure using a sample of youth with (n = 356) and without (n = 1,599) disabilities from five high schools across three U.S. states. We established content validity through expert item review, structural validity through initial field-testing, and…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Construct Validity, Adolescents, College Readiness
Edgerton, Adam Kirk – Grantee Submission, 2019
Cynthia Coburn, in her 2016 article in the "American Journal of Education"--''What's Policy Got to Do With It?''--states that the field of policy implementation suffers from the propensity to learn the same lessons over and over again. This repetition of mistakes, I argue, stems from a failure to account for predictable patterns in how…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Common Core State Standards
Baker, Curt – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine if K-12 public school students are receiving adequate college and career readiness guidance (CCR Guidance), and, if not, to characterize the nature, extent, and cause of the shortfall. Adequacy is defined as the ability of students to meet with a CCR Guidance counselor; the counselor's willingness to get…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Kanno, Yasuko – Multilingual Matters, 2021
Why does a public high school, despite having resources and educators with good intentions, end up graduating English learners (ELs) without preparing them for college and career? This book answers this question through a longitudinal ethnographic case study of a diverse high school in Pennsylvania. The author takes the reader on a journey with…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Access to Education, School Role, High School Students
Ruiz, Rudy – National College Attainment Network, 2021
There are deep and often institutionalized root causes for persistent equity gaps in postsecondary access and attainment in the United States. Many data sources, as well as the dozens of practitioners interviewed for this paper, affirm this. The majority of K-12 public school students are now students of color, and the U.S. Census Bureau estimates…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Change
Philadelphia Education Research Consortium, 2022
Beginning with the class of 2023, graduating Pennsylvania high school students will need to demonstrate career or postsecondary preparedness in addition to meeting existing statewide graduation requirements. Act 158 of 2018 outlines five pathways to meeting this requirement, including two that rely exclusively on Keystone Exam performance and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Graduation Requirements, Career Readiness, College Readiness
Yeager, Richard Glenn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
AutismSpeaks.org estimated that a total of 1.1 million teens with autism will enter adulthood in the next decade (Autism Speaks, n.d.). Unfortunately, research shows many of those individuals will have bleak outcomes in life postsecondary (Lake et al., 2014; Posar & Visconti, 2018). This issue will compound without proper resources and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Adults, Technology Uses in Education
Thatcher, Leslie; Rosenblum, L. Penny – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
To prepare high school graduates with visual impairments for college, staff members at Perkins School for the Blind developed a nine month residential program, College Success@Perkins. This article describes components of the program design and provides data on eight students who successfully completed the program in the first cohort. It concludes…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, College Readiness, Visual Impairments, Blindness
Norris, Katherine E. L.; Martin, Gerardina L. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
Higher education institutions are in a great position to create authentic programming to support local underfunded or underperforming public school districts. This article gives an overview of an education outreach collaborative between a 4-year public university, local schools, and a community institution and highlights lessons learned from the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, School Community Relationship, Mentors, High School Students
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
Despite the myriad of challenges that families, students, teachers and policymakers faced in 2021, the momentum to transform education did not waver. New opportunities for students unfolded in more than a dozen states through expanded private and public school choice. An additional 1.7 million students gained eligibility for private choice alone,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Choice, Public Schools, Private Education