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Sade Bonilla; Alexander Thim – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
In this study, we examine an at-scale effort to encourage the formation of career pathways in California, with the goal of estimating the initiative's causal effects on community college enrollment. We leverage a discontinuous assignment rule used to award grant funds to obtain credibly causal estimates of an ambitious $500 million effort to…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, College Enrollment, Educational Finance, Transitional Programs
Lynne Graziano; Nick Lee – Bellwether, 2024
Young people need clear pathways to navigate from K-12 education into careers that align with their interests, strengths, and life goals. But they often lack the information, support, and access to choose and complete postsecondary pathways that are right for them. The federal government can play an important role in bridging this gap, by…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Guided Pathways, Government School Relationship, Career Development
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Hondzel, Catharine Dishke; Churchley, John; Lidster, Susan – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2019
The reasons why students persist in their post-secondary learning are complex. This paper proposes a model for the development of K-16 partnerships that promote student success through the transition from secondary school to post-secondary, supported by teachers, faculty members, and educational developers. This model proposes that each of the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Molly F. Gordon; Carol Hafford; Mitchell R. Barrows; Stacy B. Ehrlich Loewe; Kyle DeMeo Cook; Melissa Gutwein; Cristina Carrazza; Rachel C. Feldman; Tamara G. Halle; Kristie Kauerz – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2023
The Understanding Children's Transitions from Head Start to Kindergarten (HS2K) Project was a multi-year project funded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. The purpose of this project was to better understand how to improve children's…
Descriptors: Social Services, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Transitional Programs
Quillen, Cassandra – Education Commission of the States, 2020
On a given day, more than 43,000 youths who largely identify as students of color and are disproportionately male are held in residential placement facilities as a result of involvement with the juvenile justice system. More than two-thirds of youths living in placement facilities who participated in a national survey shared aspirations to…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Barriers
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Bourne-Firl, Bridgetta – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2016
How do we reach the summit in terms of supporting the best transition possible for each young deaf or hard of hearing individual in the United States? Should professionals who are hearing work alone to succeed with deaf and hard of hearing students? No matter how good the intention, if we want deaf and hard of hearing students to transition from…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Transitional Programs, Adjustment (to Environment)
Education Insights Center, 2019
Bridging the Gap (BtG) supports successful student transitions from high school to postsecondary, via cross-system, education partnerships. With funding from The James Irvine Foundation, BtG partnerships focus on first-generation college students, students of color, and low-income students who face substantial barriers in meeting their educational…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, High School Students, College Bound Students, Partnerships in Education
American Association of Community Colleges, 2016
With the national spotlight on community colleges, the sector has a unique opportunity to seize the moment and collaborate with K-12 to increase student success. Efforts to increase community college access and open doors to more students must include a complementary focus on improving readiness. Otherwise, remediation rates will remain…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Elementary Secondary Education, College Role
Nodine, Thad; Jaeger, Laura; Bracco, Kathy Reeves – Education Insights Center, 2019
A group of public education institutions throughout the Salinas Valley came together in 2016 to help more youth in the valley prepare for and succeed in college. In this brief, we draw from interviews with faculty, staff, and administrators, as well as with student focus groups, in order to answer the following question for those interested in…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, High School Students, College Bound Students, Partnerships in Education
Nodine, Thad; Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Jaeger, Laura – Education Insights Center, 2019
Long Beach and the Salinas Valley joined Bridging the Gap to smooth transitions for students from high school to postsecondary education. Due to policy reforms at the state and system levels, working across systems increasingly became an immediate and practical need for those seeking to improve student transitions from high school to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, High School Students, College Bound Students, Partnerships in Education
Nodine, Thad; Jaeger, Laura; Bracco, Kathy Reeves – Education Insights Center, 2019
In 2016, a team of education leaders from the Long Beach College Promise joined Bridging the Gap to build and strengthen student transitions from high school to college. The partners sought to assess and improve the partnership's dual enrollment programs spanning the three public institutions, pilot and implement new career exploration tools and…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, High School Students, College Bound Students, Partnerships in Education
Hooker, Sarah; Finn, Sam; Niño, Derek; Rice, Alice – Jobs for the Future, 2021
This is the executive summary for the report, "Dual Enrollment for Students from Special Populations: Improving College Transitions for English Learners, Students with Disabilities, Foster Youth, and Young People Experiencing Homelessness." Interest in dual enrollment is rising in California and nationwide, but students from special…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities, Foster Care
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Ullman, Ellen – Community College Journal, 2014
Teachers dedicate their lives to working with students, but also in learning from each other. In programs around the Spokane, Washington area of the U.S., teachers have been meeting with the intention of strengthen connections and smooth transitions between K-12 schools and institutions of higher education in alignment with expectations for the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College School Cooperation, College Readiness, Elementary Secondary Education
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2016
The Condition of Education in the Commonwealth Action Guide presents an overview of the current policy landscape and context in areas of need, along with suggested program steps for bringing successful practices to scale. The Action Guide and the larger Condition of Education in the Commonwealth project provides a common foundation for more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Partnerships in Education, Models, Early Childhood Education
Hooker, Sarah; Finn, Sam; Niño, Derek; Rice, Alice – Jobs for the Future, 2021
Interest in dual enrollment is rising in California and nationwide, but students from special populations--including English learners, students with disabilities, foster youth, and young people experiencing homelessness--are too often left on the sidelines. This report explores promising practices and recommendations for designing dual enrollment…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities, Foster Care
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