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Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr., joined by Assemblyman Anthony J. Brindisi as well as Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol, stressed the theme of moving on to higher education and avoidance of substance abuse at the Oneida County Summer Youth Employment Program's annual Work Readiness Day held at the Utica campus of Mohawk Valley Community College.

Austin, Texas About Blog This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, college readiness, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, race, class, and gender issues with additional focus at the national level.

If the new Common Core assessments set the high school graduation bar at true college readiness — meaning students are on track to take credit bearing courses from day one — the country is likely to learn that scarcely one - third of all students, and many fewer low - income students, are at that level now.

At some point — not too soon, they insist — the standards will need to be revised, to reflect new research on student learning and evidence about their validity in predicting college and career readiness.

Review suggestions from educators at KIPP King Collegiate High School in San Lorenzo, California, on how to develop and assess critical - thinking skills to foster college readiness.

We are at a critical juncture for education reform in America: forty - six states have adopted a brand - new set of English Language Arts Common Core State Standards for college - and career - readiness, and most are on the verge of implementation.

Researchers say the early warning indicator system emerged as a way to measure whether students were on track to reach stages along the way to the project's goal: measuring true college readiness, meaning that students would not need a remedial course when they arrived at college.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

In a new article for Education Next, Ira Nichols - Barrer, Erin Dillon, Kate Place, and Brian Gill report that scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam do equally well at predicting students» success in college, as measured by first - year grades and by the probability that a student needs remediation upon entering cCollege and Careers (PARCC) exam and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam do equally well at predicting students» success in college, as measured by first - year grades and by the probability that a student needs remediation upon entering ccollege, as measured by first - year grades and by the probability that a student needs remediation upon entering collegecollege.

In both subjects, scores on both exams are at least as strongly correlated with college grades as the SAT, a widely used indicator of college readiness.

The ten indicators were: 9th - grade attendance rates; rates of college readiness at the end of each grade (as measured by the number of students on track to earn a Regents diploma as opposed to a less - rigorous «local» diploma); the number of credits earned and Regents exams passed by grade 12; dropout and transfer rates; graduation rates; and rates of receiving a Regents diploma.

The Common Core State Standards did a good job of cumulating to college and (they said) career readiness by the end of high school, but that's only helpful if states use those or equally rigorous academic standards and if the assessments based on such standards are truly aligned with them, have rigorous scoring standards, and set their «cut scores» at levels that denote readiness for college - level work.

Currently Pell Grants are not at all conditioned on readiness to do college - level work.

Based on their research, they developed the National College and Career Readiness Indicators, a multi-metric index that offers a truer picture of whether students are ready for life after high school than you get from simply looking at standardized test scores.

The upshot of this improvement in college readiness is that, upon graduation, while charter and public school students are just as likely to go on to post-secondary education, charter students enroll at four - year colleges at much higher rates.

He also served as a member Educator Leaders» Cadre for the State of New Jersey, representing administrators at PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) on the national level.

Background: Chad Aldeman is a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, where he has worked on the Policy and Thought Leadership team since 2012, advising clients and writing on teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and college and career readiness.

Andrew Kelly, director of the Center on Higher Education Reform at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that the Obama plan will not address low rates of college readiness and student success but will strain public budgets and crowd out innovation.

Author Bio: Chad Aldeman is a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, where he has worked on the Policy and Thought Leadership team since 2012, advising clients and writing on teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and college - and career - readiness.

Academic and enrichment program for students at Jane Addams and Nathan Hale, with a special focus on leadership development and college & career readiness.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Ohio learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase OST and EOC and college and career readiness.

October 6, 2015 — Former Commissioner of Higher Education Richard Freeland and former Commissioner of Education Robert Antonucci, who retired as Fitchburg State University president this year, spoke out this week at an event hosted by the Boston Foundation on college readiness.

For the first time, charters at the high school level are also judged on curriculum rigor, graduation rate and college - readiness.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Nebraska learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase NeSA - ELA and NE - ACT and college and career readiness.

At the end of the year I'm able to see the fruits of my labors; increasing the overall proficiency of my 130 scholars at college and career readiness (levels 4 - 5 on EOG) from 83 % my first year to 96 % as part of an 8th grade science PLC that produced a student growth of 5.2 % on the N.C. Growth Index (bearing in mind that a score of 2 indicates exceeds expected growthAt the end of the year I'm able to see the fruits of my labors; increasing the overall proficiency of my 130 scholars at college and career readiness (levels 4 - 5 on EOG) from 83 % my first year to 96 % as part of an 8th grade science PLC that produced a student growth of 5.2 % on the N.C. Growth Index (bearing in mind that a score of 2 indicates exceeds expected growthat college and career readiness (levels 4 - 5 on EOG) from 83 % my first year to 96 % as part of an 8th grade science PLC that produced a student growth of 5.2 % on the N.C. Growth Index (bearing in mind that a score of 2 indicates exceeds expected growth).

We will review what college and career readiness means to us at Edmentum and then proceed to explore recommendations on how to be successful in both facets.

However, by focusing on college and career readiness and including meaningful comparisons for schools, we hope that these new reports will inform conversations at the local level about where schools are doing well and where they can continue to improve.

Assessment of readiness includes scoring at the college - and career - ready level on Smarter Balanced, ACT or SAT, career readiness certificate or completion of a 12th grade transition course.

This will allow current college - readiness counselors at each high school to focus on engaging freshmen and sophomores in college readiness activities, Valero and SAISD officials said.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Oregon learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase SBAC and college and career readiness.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Wyoming learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase WY - TOPP and WY - ACT and college and career readiness.

Prior to BVP, Ms. Anderson was part of the Office of Transformation and Charter Schools at the Rhode Island Department of Education, where her work included policy development on school accountability and college readiness, as well as direct support to district leadership teams on school reform.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Alabama learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase AL - Scantron and AL - ACTA and college and career readiness.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Kentucky learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase K - PREP, KY - ACT, and KYOTE and college and career readiness.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Illinois learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase PARCC and IL - SAT and college and career readiness.

At AJLA, we are working toward creating a community that encompasses the mission of our school and moves students on to college and career readiness.

Achieving those results, however, will require the support of higher education not only throughout the development of theexams but also into their full implementation.As a first step toward encouraging higher education systems to endorse and base judgments aboutstudents» college readiness on the new assessments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundationand Lumina Foundation requested the National Center for Higher Education ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a state level.

NCEA offers a core practice framework that details significant research on schools that have greater success at growing students towards college and career readiness than their comparable schools.

Given that we work with an at - risk population, the CCSS required us to significantly shift our instructional strategies in order to ensure that our students were mastering content and on track for college and career readiness.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Georgia learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase Georgia Milestones and college and career readiness.

Delaware's Red Clay Consolidated School District, grand - prize winner in the 5,000 to 20,000 Students category, created a strategic plan, entitled #Futureready, to focus on college and career readiness and increased rigorous instruction at high schools.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Guam learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase SBAC and college and career readiness.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Arizona learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase AzMERIT and college and career readiness.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Iowa learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase IAA and college and career readiness.

They use «college readiness» as the high school proficiency target — and map back from there to define «on track» at each grade level.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's patented and proven literacy platform reaches all Delaware learners at their individual reading levels to significantly accelerate learning and dramatically increase SBAC, DE-PSAT and DE-SAT and college and career readiness.

Currently, her research at BERC is focused on college readiness, differential access to postsecondary education, community schools, attendance, and school engagement.

«With so many high school graduates going on to college, the focus for high schools has in large part been on college readiness, but at the expense of learning what makes graduates career - ready,» said Patte Barth, director of the Center for Public Education.

The Speaker's Task Force on Youth Workforce Readiness will hold its second meeting in Wausau at 11:00 AM at Northcentral Technical College.