Vanda Belusic - Vollor is Executive Director of the Office of Postsecondary Readiness (OPSR), which leads efforts that ensure all New York City students
graduate high school prepared for postsecondary success.
In a dramatic reversal from the early 2000s, there are now over 100,000 more low - income students in Colorado on track to
graduate high school prepared for college (we still have a long way to go, but it is significantly better).
Through these expanded learning opportunities provided after school and during the summer in almost 1,000 sites across the state, TEA is making significant strides toward accomplishing its goal for all Texas students to
graduate high school prepared for college and the workforce.
With its focus on supporting state efforts to prepare all students for college and career, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents K — 12 and postsecondary systems the opportunity to invest in meaningful partnerships that provide targeted supports and acceleration opportunities to help more students
graduate high school prepared to succeed in college.
With aligned goals across the education system, states can ensure that all students
graduate high school prepared for college and careers and transition seamlessly into higher education, ultimately reducing the need for remediation and increasing postsecondary completion rates.
Show students that you do believe in them, that they will
graduate high school prepared to succeed in college.
We are committed to helping students
graduate high school prepared and inspired to achieve their most ambitious dreams and plans.
Its commitment to education centers on working to ensure all students
graduate high school prepared to succeed in college and careers.
The Helmsley Charitable Trust's Education Program aims to ensure all students
graduate high school prepared for college or careers by supporting teachers in these efforts.
Thousands more of New York's students are on track to
graduate high school prepared to do more rigorous math.
Their mission: to develop common academic standards in English and mathematics that would help ensure that «all students, regardless of where they live, are
graduating high school prepared for college, career, and life.»
We're a group of teachers, educators, parents, civic and business leaders working together to ensure that every student in New York State receives a first - rate education and
graduates high school prepared for college and beyond.
Not exact matches
Last year, only 44 percent of
high -
school graduates were
prepared for college - level math and 36 percent were
prepared for university - level science courses, according to the National Math and Science Initiative.
Are the
graduates coming out of local
high schools and colleges
prepared to work in a technology - based economy?
Wide ranged efforts to promote deeper learning in the STEM subjects will also help ensure that all students are ready for college or for the workforce when they
graduate from
high school and that they are
prepared to take their place as productive, full participants in society.
It begins the summer before a student's freshman year of
high school, and helps the student
prepare for, attend, and
graduate from college.
In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will
graduate from
high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second year.
In one year you can go from
graduating high school to
preparing for the NBA draft.
Students who pursued the Occupational Course of Study in
high school are
prepared for a variety of community - based jobs once they
graduate.
If you choose the conversion rails (sold separately) now, you'll be
prepared when the day comes that she's outgrown the day bed as you convert it once again into a full size bed she'll still be using when she
graduates from
high school.
• Continuing to promote education reform - ensuring that
high school graduates are fully
prepared for college and careers, and making sure that workforce - training programs address real - world needs of New York employers.
And he said now is the time to act, because students remain behind in international comparisons and many
high school graduates must pay for remedial courses in college because they are so ill -
prepared.
I hope that we have consensus on the ultimate goal is a
high school graduate in New York State that's
prepared for a career and or college,» said Bennett.
As students
prepare to
graduate from
High School or college, the push is on to try to keep the
graduates establishing their career in New York, instead of moving south.
We need to consider
preparing disadvantaged children as early as the preschool level and continuing throughout the
high school years in order to complement the college and
graduate school programs that focus on increasing minorities in the sciences.
«Monte Carlo,» which is based on the novel Headhunters by Jules Bass, follows Grace (played by Selena Gomez), recent
high school graduate, as she and her best friend Emma (portrayed by Katie Cassidy)
prepare for their dream vacation to Paris.
The young girl in question is a happy
high school graduate preparing to leave her simple rural Minnesota home to begin college.
A majority of U.S.
high school graduates who took the ACT are entering college poorly
prepared to tackle key subjects such as math and science, concludes a report by the sponsor of the nation's second most widely used college - admissions test.
Rampant grade inflation in recent years has allowed poorly
prepared students to
graduate not just from
high schools but also from colleges.
Yet, across the country, state standards have been abysmally low for too long, evidenced by the fact that 75 percent of
high school graduates are not fully
prepared for college or a good paying job.
This is a system where every
high -
school graduate is
prepared for the next step in life so that our nation is
prepared for the 21st century.
Critics were quick to point out that
schools already fall short of carrying out their principal responsibility,
preparing young people who
graduate from
high school for citizenship and for
higher education or productive work.
Henry Ford Early College in Dearborn, Mich.,
prepares students to
graduate with a
high school diploma, an associate degree, and a certification in an allied health field.
These students are in classrooms in most
school systems — and face some of the steepest odds for
graduating from
high school — yet only one - third of district - level leaders believe educators in their
schools are
prepared to effectively teach English - learners, according to an Education Week Research Center survey from late last year.
With the nation's economic recovery seemingly stuck in low gear, the need to better understand the link between learning and a career seems more critical than ever for
high school students
preparing to
graduate and enter the next phase of their lives.
Too many students, after years in low - performing elementary and middle
schools, languish in dumb - downed
high school courses that may be labeled college - prep or career - technical education, and
graduate ill -
prepared to take the next step.
The top - line finding alone — that just 12 percent of
high school graduates do not enroll in college within eight years of graduation — provides additional evidence that
schools need to continue to focus on
preparing all students to be ready for a college environment, whether or not they go right away (or ever).
Among other findings, 61 percent said that
high schools were not equipped to meet the needs of struggling students, and 65 percent said that a public
high school diploma did not
prepare graduates for the workforce.
Rick Hess: As you know, Secretary Duncan recently criticized Texas's
schools, saying that they have «really struggled» under Governor Perry and that «far too few of their
high school graduates are actually
prepared to go on to college.»
But the truth is, a shockingly large share of
graduating high -
school seniors are not
prepared to go to college — more than half, by some estimates.
Students in the
high school class of 2004 must pass a state exit exam to
graduate, and Santa Ana needs to start
preparing students now, Mijares adds.
After
graduating at 14 from the «colored»
high school in Vicksburg, my mother moved to Harlem and lived with her maternal grandmother and aunts so that she could complete the last two years of
high school in a place that would better
prepare her for college and a medical career.
Declarations that public education in general and
high schools in particular turn out badly
prepared graduates, perpetuate inequities, and generally operate in ways that run counter to the nation's interests have become almost commonplace.
Though set on ensuring all students
graduate academically
prepared for college (like P - Tech, Paramount's project is an early college
high school and provides numerous no - cost college courses to enrolled students), each student also completes an apprenticeship at one of Paramount's divisions.
That's because the proportion of recent
high school graduates attending college is far
higher than the proportion of twelfth graders who are
prepared for college — and that gap has worsened over time.
Club members nationwide participate in year - round academic success programs that encourage them to
graduate from
high school on time and
prepared for a post-secondary education and a promising 21st century career.
Several national studies, including analyses of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), show that just 38 — 40 percent of
high school graduates leave our education system at the «college -
prepared» level in reading and math.
For example, in order to
graduate, should all
high school students need to pass Algebra II to show they are
prepared for college - level math?
But it also unrepentantly underscores the state's big challenges: Massachusetts lags far behind the world's
highest - performing nations, many of which are pulling farther ahead; other nations and other U.S. states have shown stronger recent gains; too few Massachusetts
high school graduates are
prepared for college - level work; and other U.S. states have done a better job of closing the achievement gap.
To quote from Fr, Heft's concluding chapter, «A Catholic
high school that offers the education that it should will provide not only spiritual development, it will also provide a superior education, precisely because it will integrate knowledge; attend to both the heads and hearts of their students; engage parents more intimately in the education of their children; deepen their understanding and strengthen the practice of their faith; and
prepare their
graduates to enter thoughtfully a culture that offers opportunities and has needs, not just for technical skills, but even more for wisdom and generosity.»