This chapter describes examples of local pathways and statewide policies that align community college standards and curricula with those at high schools and four-year colleges and universities.

This policy brief contains papers from participants in a symposium that examined the movement of high-school students from school to college or work. The presenters adopted a variety of perspectives to study these transitions so as to aid state policymakers, state education and higher education agency personnel, and postsecondary and secondary…