Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
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College and Career Readiness
States nationwide are facing increasing pressure to not only increase the number of students who graduate from high school, but to better prepare them to meet college and the workplace expectations. The NWCC provides technical assistance to build Northwest states’ capacity to develop rigorous instructional pathways that support the successful transition of all students from secondary education to college and careers.
The following resources related to this priority area have been compiled by NWCC staff.
Resources
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How Career and Technical Education Can Help Students Be College and Career Ready: A Primer The College & Career Readiness & Success Center released a brief providing an overview of the evolution of career technical education (CTE) in the U.S. The brief reviews what CTE looks like in practice and highlights issues CTE faces in the field that must be overcome for it to become an impactful and wide-reaching strategy for preparing students for postsecondary success. |
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Promoting College and Career Readiness: A Pocket Guide for State and District Leaders The American Institutes for Research released a guide identifying strategies to ensure that all students, regardless of special needs or language fluency, are prepared for postsecondary education and careers. |
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National High School Center Early Warning System Professional Development Training Series The National High School Center’s Early Warning System (EWS) team recently held a free, five-part professional development training series to coincide with the start of the 2012–2013 school year. |
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College Readiness Indicator Systems: Building Effective Supports for Students The Annenberg Institute for School Reform’s (AISR) latest issue of Voices in Urban Education highlights the topic of college readiness. |
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College and Career Readiness: A Quick Stats Fact Sheet The National High School Center released a fact sheet highlighting findings and statistics on the current status of high school graduates' readiness for life after high school. |
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Organizing Early Warning Indicator and Intervention Work Groups for Dropout Prevention: A How-to-Guide for Schools Jobs for the Future released a guide designed to assist school leaders and leadership teams in planning how to implement effective organizational structures and routines within the school to address the early warning indicators of dropping out. |
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Early Warning System Tool Source File Collators The National High School Center released Source File Collators that are an ideal way to consolidate student data into a source file that can be easily imported into the Early Warning System (EWS) Middle Grades and High School Tools. |
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Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century The National Academies Press released a report describing the important set of key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. |
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College and Career Development Organizer The National High School Center has created a college and career development organizer to synthesize and organize an increasingly complicated and crowded field of college and career readiness initiatives. |
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Creating a College and Career Readiness Accountability Model for High Schools The National Governors Association released a report recommending that states consider the following principles when designing a college and career readiness accountability system for high schools: |
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Early Warning System Tools Help Keep Middle Grades and High School Students On Track to Graduate High School The National High School Center released a new Early Warning System Middle Grades (EWS MG) Tool and an enhanced Early Warning System High School (EWS HS) Tool. |
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On Track for Success: The Use of Early Warning Indicator and Intervention Systems to Build a Grad Nation The Everyone Graduates Center at John Hopkins University released a report representing the first national assessment of Early Warning Indicator and Intervention Systems at the district, state, and national levels. |
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Dropout Prevention: A Practice Guide Geared toward educators, administrators, and policymakers, this guide provides recommendations that focus on reducing high school dropout rates. |