U.S. Education Blog Series: Prepared to Succeed
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Making Evaluation Smarter
In the ten years I’ve been working on evaluation with grantees of the U.S. Department of Education’s Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, or GEAR UP, a lot of trends have come and gone. They aim toward a good end – making sure the federal government is spending its...
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Setting Expectations from the Start: How Early Education Gets Children Ready for College and Career
In our twenty-plus years working on equity, we’ve always recognized the importance of communicating early and to all children the expectation that they will go to college, they will have a career and they will succeed.
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School–Business Partnerships Connect Students to Real-Life Careers
In my 19 years working on school-to-business partnerships for education, I’ve heard students repeat the same questions: Why am I learning this in math? Why am I reading this in English? Why do I have to do this science project? How is my education relevant?
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An Early Warning System Keeps Middle School Students on Track to College and Career
Middle school might seem far away from college and career, but the 5th through 8th grade years build a foundation for the rest of life. By looking at middle schoolers holistically — not only their academic performance, but also their social and emotional development — educators and parents can...
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Answering ‘What Comes Next?’ for Students with Disabilities
When I was a special education teacher in the 1990s and early 2000s, we almost never talked about what our students would do after high school. We just focused on getting them to graduation.
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Bridging the Gap from High School to Postsecondary Success
These days, both mainstream and education news are full of stories on why making sure students finish college is so important not only for young people, but also for the U.S. economy — for example, see the June 2012 Education Week article by Wendy Puriefoy of the Public Education Network (PEN)...
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Career Technical Education Keeps Students, Economy on Track
Career Technical Education (CTE) has been around for years, but it’s just beginning to be recognized as a viable solution to the country’s skills gap: the mismatch between what employers need and what job seekers offer. Although unemployment is high, companies are desperate for technicians who...
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College and Career Readiness Start Early
Forty years ago, a high school education could get most Americans a good job. Those days are over. Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce predicts that within five years, six out of ten U.S. jobs will require a postsecondary degree.
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So many informations, great text, thank you.