Sentences with phrase «accelerating dual enrollment»

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Students have the chance to accelerate and gain workforce skills, but roadblocks to dual enrollment remain

Today, as legislators see it, dual enrollment offers something for everyone: academic enrichment for kids who have maxed out the honors and accelerated classes their schools offer; a glimpse of college rigor for high school laggards; and a leg up on a career for those who enroll in trade programs.

Smarter Balanced scores also will be used in several states to identify students who are ready for accelerated options such as dual enrollment.

This study, comparing the high school and college transcripts of more than 400 students who participated in dual enrollment courses (but not in Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses) with the transcripts of students with similar GPA's and class rank, but who took no accelerated learning courses, showed that:

School turnaround strategies for low - achieving high schools included increasing the rigor of curriculum through accelerated coursework, including dual enrollment.

Such programs can take many forms, including specialized charter schools; «blended learning» schools in which students take accelerated online courses that supplement traditional, teacher - based instruction; curricular plans that allow students to graduate in fewer than 13 years; and «early college» high schools and «dual enrollment» programs in which they can simultaneously take high - school and college courses.

Dual or concurrent enrollment programs are partnerships between local educational agencies (LEAs) and Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) that allow high school students to enroll in college courses and earn transferable college credit, setting them on an accelerated path to postsecondary success.

For the last five years, the Administration has proposed budgets that include funding for low - income student participation in dual and concurrent enrollment in a proposed College Pathways and Accelerated Learning fund — which Congress has not funded.

Smarter Balanced scores also will be used in several states to help identify students who are ready for accelerated options such as dual enrollment.

She said the district is creating more pathways to accelerate student graduation and encouraging dual enrollment with community colleges.