ERIC Number: ED629073
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 353
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Graduation Pathway Options Report. [2022]
Washington State Board of Education
This report contains three parts: the "Graduation Pathway Options Report" with Foreword by the State Board, "Washington Graduation Pathway Options: Stakeholder Feedback Project Year 3, Volume I," and "Washington Graduation Pathway Options: Stakeholder Feedback Project Year 3, Volume II." The graduation pathway is one of three required components for earning a high school diploma. Graduation pathway options include tests and advanced courses in English language arts and math, Career and Technical Education course sequences, and the military vocational aptitude test (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery). In anticipation of potential barriers, the Legislature charged the State Board of Education with researching the first three years of pathways implementation to identify barriers and provide recommendations for changes to the existing pathways and additional pathways options. While implementation was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the research identified other challenges. Strobel Consulting collected District Survey, focus group and interview data during the third year of this three-year project to address: (1) Whether changes to the existing eight pathways should be made and what those changes should be; (2) The barriers schools and districts have to offering all of the graduation pathways and recommendations to eliminate or reduce those barriers for school districts; (3) Whether all students have equitable access to all of the graduation pathways and, if not, recommendations for reducing the barriers students may have to accessing all of the graduation pathways; and (4) Whether additional graduation pathways should be included and recommendations for what those pathways should be. In addition to what the statute required the report address, the year 3 scope of work was expanded to include the following : (1) How the High School and Beyond Plan is/was implemented in their school or district; (2) What improvements could be made to the High School and Beyond Plan to make it a better tool for students to plan their future after high school; (3) What improvements could be made to the High School and Beyond Plan to make it a better tool for students to make decisions about courses, graduation pathway options, other academic and career learning activities; (4) Relevancy of pathways, and how to make them more relevant; and (5) Alignment of pathways to Profile of a Graduate.
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Advanced Courses, Vocational Education, Aptitude Tests, Tests, Educational Change, Equal Education, Educational Improvement, Barriers, Graduation, Educational Attainment
Washington State Board of Education. 600 Washington Street, Olympia, WA 98504. Tel: 360-725-6025; e-mail: sbe@k12.wa.us; Web site: http://www.sbe.wa.gov
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Washington State Board of Education; Strobel Consulting, LLC
Identifiers - Location: Washington
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