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Ransford, Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study is a case study of the diffusion of a successful middle college program to an early college high school in a densely populated county in the upper Midwest. The data from interviews with 17 respondents who had been designers or implementers of either the first or the diffused model defined the essential elements of success of the first…
Descriptors: High Schools, College Preparation, Nontraditional Education, Program Implementation
Camara, Wayne; Quenemoen, Rachel – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2012
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a consortia of states that is developing a next-generation assessment system in English and math anchored in what it takes to be ready for college and careers. To accomplish this goal the consortia must determine whether individual students are college and career-ready,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Evaluation Criteria, Grades (Scholastic)
Gilles, Carol; Davis, Barbara; McGlamery, Sheryl – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
The Comprehensive Teacher Induction Consortium, a group of similar teacher induction programs, has used a highly successful model for over 15 years. Four crucial aspects of that model are a full year of mentored support for first-year teachers, coursework leading to a master's degree, opportunities for sharing with other beginning teachers, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Consortia
Lundell, Dana Britt; Higbee, Jeanne L.; Hipp, Susan; Copeland, Robert, Eds. – Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, University of Minnesota, 2005
This report summarizes key outcomes and discussion points from the first meeting of the Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium's Developmental Education Initiative. On January 6, 2004, 37 developmental educators from Twin Cities colleges and universities participated in think-tank sessions to begin discussions about college readiness and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Cooperative Planning, School Readiness, College Preparation