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Direct linkSmerdon, Becky, Ed.; Borman, Kathryn M., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America's High Schools is organized to place secondary education, specifically the goals of preparing young adults to be college and career ready, in contemporary perspective, emphasizing the changing global economy and trends in policy and practice. High school students must be…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Secondary Education, Global Approach
Download full textHughes, Katherine L.; Karp, Melinda Mechur; Fermin, Baranda J.; Bailey, Thomas R. – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2006
This Brief summarizes the final report from the "Accelerating Student Success through Credit-Based Transition Programs" study. That study, which was initiated by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), examined the ways that CBTPs may help middle- and low-achieving students enter and succeed in…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Tech Prep, Dual Enrollment, Case Studies
Peer reviewedHoffman, Nancy; Vargas, Joel; Santos, Janet – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
If everyone needs an education through two years of college or the equivalent, then the nation has an obligation to provide a far more certain pathway for postsecondary success than it does now. Because so many young people fail to complete the final years of high school, graduate but do not apply to college, or begin postsecondary education only…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Dual Enrollment, Psychoeducational Methods, High School Students
McCoy, Kathleen M.; Rader, Martha H. – Journal of Applied Research for Business Instruction, 2008
Despite the national, state, and local emphasis on academic progress and standards, the curricular needs of the 3 million highly talented and gifted youth in the U.S. generally have not been embraced as a priority. In many high schools, academically precocious students are expected to progress on their own. The Individuals with Disabilities…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Mild Disabilities, Talent, Academic Achievement
Jobs for the Future, 2006
"Smoothing the Path" describes successful state-level strategies and policy lessons that have been learned in four states during the development of schools that integrate secondary and postsecondary education. Statewide efforts in the multi-year Early College High School Initiative, which began in Ohio and Utah in 2002 and in Texas and…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, Financial Policy, Postsecondary Education
Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2006
This report provides an in-depth look at five different programs, all of which currently, or are making efforts to, include a broad range of students. The five Credit-Based Transition Programs (CBTPs) studied are located in five states--California, Iowa, Minnesota, New York and Texas--and included two dual enrollment programs (one with a career…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Dual Enrollment, Tech Prep, Advanced Placement Programs
Hughes, Katherine L.; Karp, Melinda Mechur; Fermin, Baranda J.; Bailey, Thomas R. – US Department of Education, 2005
This report examines the ways that credit-based transition programs (CBTPs) may help middle- and low-achieving students enter and succeed in college. It highlights promising practices used by CBTPs to help students who might have been considered noncollege-bound prepare for college credit course work. The report also discusses the challenges that…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Case Studies, Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement Programs
