This Executive Leadership Portfolio (ELP) represents purposeful, professional development that supports teachers and students as they implement Hodgson Vocational Technical High School's instructional focus called CREST. CREST is an acronym that signifies Collaborative learning, Risk-free environment, Essential questions, Summarizing strategies…

Purpose: Responding to a deficit in research on information literacy skills proficiency at the secondary level, and specifically in a low-socioeconomic urban school district, the purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore and to compare the information literacy skills knowledge and proficiency of 12th-grade students to their academic…

Non-traditional college students benefit from unconventional teaching methods. Hispanic students now attend colleges and universities in growing numbers, and still this demographic is the least likely to earn a postsecondary credential. Due to the projected growth of the nation's Hispanic population, efforts to support the success of…

The "Equity Issues in College and Career Pathways Teaching and Learning Practices" symposium was an opportunity to identify gaps in knowledge about equity issues related to teaching and learning in college and career pathways and to begin research collaborations that could strengthen practice and inform policies to improve equitable…

As a condition of receiving federal funds, the Every Student Succeeds Act requires state education agencies to implement statewide assessments in mathematics and English language arts every year in third through eighth grade and once in ninth through 12th grade. The federal law also requires a science assessment once in each of three grade spans:…

This study examined the extent to which student- and teacher-level characteristics in high school and college are associated empirically with high school students' college readiness and success in American Samoa. More specifically, multilevel ordinal logistic regressions were employed to understand the extent to which these characteristics predict…

This analysis of college- and career-ready standards implementation is grounded in the policy attributes framework, which states that the more specific, consistent, authoritative, powerful, and stable a policy is, the better implementation will be (Porter, 1994). "Specificity" refers to how extensive, detailed, or prescriptive a policy…

This case study provided an analysis of expectations of 10 college history/social science professors at a single 4-year state university. In this qualitative dissertation study, the researcher explored how history/social science professors provide access to social capital resources to increase college readiness. Stanton-Salazar's (2010) social…

The purpose of this study was to determine the organizational structures and resource allocations superintendents in rural Missouri school districts employ to promote college and career readiness. The study sought to identify organizational structures and resource allocations being employed by superintendents in rural Missouri school districts and…

This study explored how collegiate norms of independence characterized the early collegiate experiences of men of color. More specifically, this study focuses on how men of color received cues and responded to collegiate norms that accentuate independence. Two prevalent themes that centered on internalization of normative expectations of…

Higher education can help improve Washington residents' outcomes so they will have the opportunity to lead productive and financially rewarding lives and contribute to the economic success and social wellbeing of the state. But the COVID-19 crisis is having a major impact on higher education, and postsecondary enrollment in Washington was down 13…

The pandemic exacerbated many of the challenges facing higher education in Indiana--declining college-going rates, widening equity gaps, the persistent questioning of the value of higher education--all now compounded by issues of learning loss and economic upheaval. This report provides a pre-pandemic baseline for consideration, as education…

"Breaking Barriers" shows how to redesign high schools so that all students can move on to college and successful careers. In a negation of the American Dream, a child's zip code is currently a far better predictor of success than hard work, intelligence, or resilience. This book tells the story of a school model that focuses on equity…

This study discusses the college and career readiness among full-time Southeast Asian American college students in a 4-year public university in New England. Our study consisted of surveys (n = 58) and focus groups (n = 35), of second-generation (born in the United States) or 1.5-generation (immigrated as a youth) college students. While our…

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) "Online Summary Report, 2019" was produced in accordance with §22-30.7-103(3)(h), of the Colorado Revised Statute (C.R.S.). The report is required to be prepared every five years with the last publication released in June of 2014. The information contained within this report includes data from…