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Amy Stornaiuolo; Laura Desimone; Morgan Polikoff – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study examines implementation of college-and-career-ready (CCR) education standards across five school districts in Ohio, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Drawing on the policy attributes theory, we found that the specificity of districts' approaches to two long-recognized policy levers, curriculum and professional…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Academic Standards, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Castro, Erin L. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
This conceptual analysis examines the implementation of a state-funded college and career readiness pilot program at a small, rural all-Black school in Illinois. Drawing from ethnographic data that dates from 2010, I offer a retrospective analysis on individual based intervention programming for college and career readiness. Concerned with how…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Racial Discrimination, Educational Policy, Failure
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
The education system's purpose is to enable every student to have the knowledge and skills to reach their full potential -- which requires students are college and career ready. But for far too many students, the system is falling short. A recent report found 60 percent of high school graduates were not college or career ready. Closing this gap…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Military Service, Readiness
Yu, Julie; Sanderson, Bill W.; Fong, Jennifer; Wentworth, Laura – Educational Leadership, 2022
When San Francisco implemented a new policy to improve graduation rates and college enrollment, district officials realized their work was only beginning. San Francisco Unified School District revamped its college-ready graduation policy in 2009, hoping to increase the likelihood that students would graduate with the necessary courses to go to a…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, College Readiness, Graduation Rate, College Attendance
Edmunds, Julie A.; Grebing, Eric; Coyle, Victoria; Rosof, Laura – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2022
The opportunity to take college courses in high school (dual enrollment) is becoming increasingly prevalent, but access is not equitably distributed. Certain populations, such as economically disadvantaged students and students who are members of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in college, are less likely to take dual…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Dual Enrollment, High School Students
Desimone, Laura M.; Stornaiuolo, Amy; Flores, Nelson; Pak, Katie; Edgerton, Adam; Nichols, T. Philip; Plummer, Emily C.; Porter, Andrew – Educational Researcher, 2019
This study identifies seven major trends in how states and districts are implementing college- and career-ready standards for general education students and for two special populations often the target of education policy--English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs). We draw on state-representative teacher, principal,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Program Implementation
Desimone, Laura M.; Stornaiuolo, Amy; Flores, Nelson; Pak, Katie; Edgerton, Adam; Nichols, T. Philip; Plummer, Emily C.; Porter, Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study identifies seven major trends in how states and districts are implementing college- and career-ready standards for general education students and for two special populations often the target of education policy--English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs). We draw on state-representative teacher, principal,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Program Implementation
Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
In 2014 the Washington state legislature approved career- and college-ready (CCR) requirements for high school graduation that better align with admissions standards at the state's public universities than previous requirements did and that aim to equip students with the skills to pursue the career of their choice. The requirements took effect for…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Graduation Requirements
Hanson, Havala; Fantz, Traci – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
In 2014 the Washington state legislature approved career- and college-ready (CCR) requirements for high school graduation that better align with career pathways and with admissions standards at the state's public universities than previous requirements did. The CCR requirements increased the total number of credits needed to graduate, from 20 to…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Graduation Requirements
Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "Implementation of Career- and College-Ready Requirements for High School Graduation in Washington" (ED606463). The study looked at differences in the percentages of 2018 graduates who met the requirements and of 2018 graduates who did not across student groups (by socioeconomic status, English…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Graduation Requirements
How Common Core Lives: Successes and Challenges of the "New" College- and Career-Readiness Standards
Edgerton, Adam K. – Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2019
Is the Common Core really "dead"? Though no longer called the Common Core in our three study states, the "new" college-and-career readiness standards still guide much of education policy in Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky. In our new feature article in "Educational Researcher," lead author Dr. Laura Desimone, along with…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Policy
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2020
This comprehensive strategic plan lays out a vision for an education system that offers every Rhode Island student the opportunity to be a lifelong learner. While this plan is informed by the events of the pandemic, it looks beyond to address the root issues that impede students from thriving at every level of their education. It lays out…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education, Strategic Planning, Equal Education
Dorfman, Luke – New England Board of Higher Education, 2016
With college and career readiness driving K-12 education goals in the United States today, states are focusing more acutely on policies to ensure their students are well prepared for postsecondary and professional success. While states may adapt their education policies in pursuit of these goals, a question about implementation at the local level…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, College Readiness
Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Schrager, Cynthia; Calisi, Grace; Gutierrez, Priscilla; Salciccioli, Maria; Finkelstein, Neal – WestEd, 2019
Executive Order (EO) 1110, a major policy adopted by the California State University System (CSU) Chancellor's Office in August 2017, requires CSU campuses to eliminate non-credit-bearing developmental courses in written communication and math/quantitative reasoning, and change how students are placed into entry-level courses in these areas. The…
Descriptors: College Readiness, State Universities, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M.; Parsons, Arianna – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Though scholars agree that professional development (PD) is a key mechanism for implementing education policies that call for teacher change, and that PD generally needs to be content-focused, active, collaborative, coherent, and sustained, the application of this framework has yielded mixed results. In this qualitative study, we employed…
Descriptors: Professional Development, School Districts, Educational Policy, Academic Standards