Sentences with phrase «postsecondary opportunities»

Multiple pathways to postsecondary opportunities provide learners with the core skills necessary for success and opportunities to build on those skills by tailoring coursework to meet individual college and career goals.

Benefits: MCAN connects stakeholders that provide college access and success programming with allies, best practice conferences, and tools and resources for increasing postsecondary opportunity for Montana's students.

It was inspiring to meet and hear from GEAR UP professionals across the country on how they are working with students and families, schools, local organizations, and higher education to increase postsecondary opportunities for their states and communities.

GradMinnesota connects individuals and communities to engage stakeholders at all levels to ensure that all young people in Minnesota will graduate from high school prepared for success in postsecondary opportunity, work, civic engagement, and life.

Because YCCS students were either off - track or were out of school before enrolling at YCCS, it is our goal to accelerate their learning by increasing skills mastery along with postsecondary opportunities within the high school curriculum.

With ongoing pressure to enhance the high school experience, this article argues that Linked Learning has the potential to increase students» access to a wide range of postsecondary opportunities by addressing a diverse range of students» needs and goals.

Driven by the mission to increase the number of Tennesseans completing postsecondary opportunities, the Tennessee College Access and Success Network aims to establish a college - going culture in communities across the state by removing barriers to higher education, promoting persistence, connecting education and community leaders, and promoting professional education and information sharing.

Research (download) also suggests that career academies have a positive effect on students» postsecondary opportunities including increased college attendance and increased earnings.

The following list for 2018 represents many of the policy and funding issues the Michigan College Access Network is supporting in an effort to expand postsecondary opportunities for Michigan students.

This legislation aims to bolster school counselors» proficiency when it comes to helping students pursue postsecondary opportunities.

This entails having mastered rigorous content knowledge, demonstrated ability to apply knowledge through higher - order skills and the ability to navigate the pathways and systems that will gain access to positive postsecondary opportunities.

In that way, students embark on becoming prepared for college and other postsecondary opportunities even as their basic academic needs are being addressed.

There is some good news but work is still needed to ensure that students are ready to seize postsecondary opportunities:

Her goal is not just that her students pass state tests but that all her students have the opportunities that most middle - class students take for granted — to graduate from high school and have postsecondary opportunities such as college and meaningful work.

Her award - winning research focuses on how factors such as race, ethnicity, class and linguistics shape postsecondary opportunities.

Among the administrator's most successful parent - engagement undertakings are the Parent University College Tours, which provides parents a much - needed firsthand look at postsecondary opportunities available to their children.

As a result, Tennessee will hold high schools accountable for students meeting the ACT college readiness benchmark and participating in early postsecondary opportunities, such as dual enrollment and earning an industry certification in an approved program of study.

While the Pell program is critical to connect students with postsecondary opportunities, short - term occupational training programs, which are not eligible for Pell funding, can also provide students with career - relevant training that prepares them to excel in high - demand jobs.

This brief examines how two federal laws, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), can promote meaningful pathways to postsecondary opportunities by ensuring all students are college and career ready.

Provide guidance and information to students and families to ensure success in student attendance, behavior, graduation, and planning selection of postsecondary opportunities

Driven by the mission to increase the number of Tennesseans completing postsecondary opportunities, TCASN aims to establish a college - going culture in communities across the state by removing barriers to higher education, promoting persistence, connecting education and community leaders, and promoting professional education and information sharing.

As reformers and education professionals have moved away from large, tracked, one - size - fits - all comprehensive schools and toward small, focused schools of choice that offer multiple pathways to postsecondary opportunity, we have begun to recognize what should have been obvious all along: There are many ways for a school to be «good» (see Cuban, 2000).

Linked Learning was initially designed as a strategy for high school transformation; however, the focus has shifted and now also includes system change at every level in public education, to include higher education and access to a full range of postsecondary opportunities.

Designed to strengthen pathways for students from secondary to postsecondary opportunities, Linked Learning connects academic content with technical education and «real world» opportunities.

In 2012, the Tennessee Department of Education began a three - phase process to revise and align CTE programs of study with industry and postsecondary opportunities and develop an assessment system to evaluate student mastery.

«The pathway programs were developed because we realized we had to do more to connect the education students were receiving to postsecondary opportunities,» said Jeff Hollenstein, Lead Teacher for North Chicago's Career Pathways Program.