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Alex Perry; Amy Starzynski – Jobs for the Future, 2024
The current U.S. secondary education, postsecondary education, and workforce training systems are failing to serve the needs of many of today's students. Securing a good job with a family-sustaining wage increasingly requires workers to possess industry certifications, degrees, and credentials, but U.S. education systems are not set up to help…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Secondary School Curriculum, Career Academies
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Ng, K. W.; So, Joseph C. H. – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2017
This paper examines the correlation between curriculum reforms and the development of generic competencies among Hong Kong tertiary students (or secondary leavers who were admitted to Associate Degree and Higher Diploma). A total number of 3626 freshmen completed a set of self-assessment questionnaires, which were used to analyse the correlation…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Correlation, Secondary School Curriculum, Educational Change
Kirst, Michael W., Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2004
This book reveals why so many students are entering college unprepared for college level work and often unable to complete a degree. This important book presents the findings of the Bridge Project, a major national research study conducted by Stanford University and funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the U.S. Department of Education. The…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Change, Graduation Rate, College Admission
Missouri Department of Higher Education, 2008
The Coordinating Board for Higher Education and the Department of Higher Education are pleased to present this Annual Report of accomplishments, benchmarks and statistics related to Missouri higher learning for fiscal year 2008. Chief among this year's accomplishments is the coordinated plan, "Imperatives for Change: Building a Higher…
Descriptors: Economics, Articulation (Education), Transfer Policy, Educational Cooperation
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
Work-based education (WBE), including traditional vocational education and other career-focused programs, was an important curricular component in American schools for most of the 20th century. The 1990s was a period of substantial change for work-based education (WBE). Spurred on by a concern about the international competitiveness of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Tech Prep, Education Work Relationship
Fitch, Gregory G.; Martin, Joe; Medley, Susanne C.; Stein, Robert; Wittstruck, John – Missouri Department of Higher Education, 2004
Authorized by an amendment to the Missouri Constitution in 1972, and established by state statute as part of the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974, the Coordinating Board for Higher Education (CBHE) has the responsibility of identifying the postsecondary educational needs of potential students and the training needs of business and industry…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Annual Reports, State Agencies, State Legislation