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Direct linkFoster, Elizabeth – Learning Professional, 2021
Project-based learning is popular with many parents, students, and teachers because of its focus on problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and real-world application (Gallup, 2019). It encourages teachers to act as facilitators while students actively engage in teacherand student-posed learning challenges, working alone and in groups on…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Program Effectiveness, High Schools
Download full textMiller, Michaela; Boatwright, Jason; Mahoney, Katherine – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2019
Students earning college credit while meeting the requirements of Washington's high school diploma are basic education students. Yet every year in Washington, students and their families pay out-of-pocket for the fees, books, and supplies that are required for participation in dual credit programs. This creates inequity by only allowing students…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, High School Students, Student Costs
Kenesson, Summer – Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2019
College Preparatory Programs with Exams (CPPEs) include academically-rigorous high school classes that culminate in standardized exam-based assessments. Students take the classes as part of their high school schedule and apply them toward their graduation requirements, typically whether or not they take the exams at the end. Without the exam,…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Equal Education, Standardized Tests, Advanced Placement Programs
Mahoney, Katherine; Reykdal, Kim – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2019
Dual credit courses give high school students the potential to earn both college and high school credit at the same time, either through completion of a college-level course or through performance on an exam. The 2019 Supplemental Operating Budget (Senate Bill [SB] 6032, Sec. 501 [30]) provided funding intended to reduce the cost of dual credit…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Low Income Students, Financial Support, Educational Finance
Washington State Board of Education, 2020
Through Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1599 (E2SHB 1599) the Legislature tasked the State Board of Education (SBE) with providing an analysis of the equity and adequacy of the new graduation pathway options through stakeholder outreach and engagement. SBE has solicited and received feedback on the graduation pathway options. In the…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Feedback (Response), Graduation, Postsecondary Education
Light, Noreen – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2016
In 2015, legislation to improve access to dual-credit programs and to reduce disparities in access and completion--particularly for low income and underrepresented students--was enacted. The new law focused on expanding access to College in the High School but acknowledged issues in other dual-credit programs and reinforced the notion that cost…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, Access to Education, State Legislation
Washington State Board of Education, 2020
The Washington Legislature directed the State Board of Education (SBE) to provide an analysis of the equity and adequacy of new graduation pathway options through stakeholder outreach and engagement. This report contains the "Second Interim Graduation Pathway Options Report--July 2020" and the "Washington Graduation Pathway Options:…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Feedback (Response), Graduation, Postsecondary Education
Spaulding, Randy – Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2011
Washington's 2008 Strategic Master Plan for Higher Education called for creating "multiple pathways from high school to college or workforce training" --through greater use of dual credit and concurrent high school and college enrollment options. The most prevalent of these in Washington are Running Start, which accounts for 12,500 FTE;…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, College Credits, Access to Education, High School Students
