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Pacesetting Schools Share Successful Strategies to Prepare Students for the Future. Best Practices Newsletter
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Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2013
Pacesetting high schools, middle grades schools and technology centers have changed classroom and other practices to prepare students to meet postsecondary requirements and rising workplace needs. The strategies include raising expectations, project-based learning, guidance and advisement, improving students' reading and writing skills,…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Effective Schools Research, Change Strategies, Career Readiness
Improving Transition from the Middle Grades to High School and from High Schools and Technology Centers to Further Study and Careers.
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Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2012
Every step in a student's life is important for future success. Schools are building stronger frameworks of curricula, instruction and assessments to prepare students to move from one learning environment to another with maximum results as they journey toward adulthood. This issue of "High Schools That Work" contains examples of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Centers (Classroom), Transitional Programs, High School Students
Ready for Tomorrow: Six Proven Ideas to Graduate and Prepare More Students for College and 21st-Century Careers
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Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
High schools that enable educators to nurture the distinctive interests and talents of all groups of students can help more students stay in school and find the motivation to prepare for college and careers. By implementing six clear-cut ideas, or conditions, that evidence shows can lead more students to success, schools and communities can…
Descriptors: Careers, High Schools, Classes (Groups of Students), Career Development
Education Improvement Project: The First Five Years.
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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Atlanta, GA. – 1969
Contents of this report focus on the history and activities of the Education Improvement Project (EIP), a branch of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Through innovative and coordinated programs, the Project seeks to improve education for the disadvantaged. Reports include the Education Improvement Projects of Nashville, Durham,…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Compensatory Education, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, A STATUS REPORT ON AN ACTION ARM OF THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS, FALL 1966.
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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Atlanta, GA. – 1966
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (EIP), A MULTIFACETED COMPENSATORY EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT PROJECT FOR DISADVANTAGED PUPILS IN SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. SUPPORTED BY THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS AND VARIOUS FOUNDATIONS, PROGRAMS ADMINISTERED BY EIP INCLUDE PROJECT OPPORTUNITY, AIMED AT…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement
Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates: 1991-2002. Education Working Paper No. 8
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Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Center for Civic Innovation, 2005
This study uses a widely respected method to calculate graduation rates, both nationally and for each state, for each public school graduating class from 1991 to 2002. It also combines graduation rate calculations with data provided by the U.S. Department of Education to calculate the percentage of all students who left high school eligible for…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Graduation Rate, College Admission, High School Graduates