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Measuring College Readiness, New York and Chicago Style

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Not satisfied with solely increasing high school graduation rates, more districts and states are emphasizing the content and quality of high school students’ educational experiences, as well as their performance on academic assessments and enrollment in college after high school graduation. For example, Chicago Public Schools has begun including measures of college readiness on schools’ and students’ report cards. The metrics fall into three broad categories:

What We Are Reading: College Readiness Reports, GED, Dual Enrollment

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Looking for new high school-related resources?  Here are some pieces that other organizations have recently released:* Data That Matters: Giving High Schools Useful Feedback on Grads' Outcomes (Education Sector, November 8, 2011). In Data That Matters, Anne Hyslop identifies four characteristics—the 4Ts—of the most successful college readiness reports. They must be: transparent, thorough, timely, and tailored.

Successful K-12 Transitions through Vertical and Horizontal Articulation

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The California Comprehensive Center at WestEd conducted a research study aimed at identifying middle-to-high school transition practices  at California schools with graduation rates that were higher than predicted. They found that some schools used a “Regional Model” that leveraged collaboration and cross-school communication to ease transition and raise graduation rates.

New NCES Report on Trends in U.S. High School Dropout and Completion Data

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Last week, NCES released Trends in High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 1972–2009, a report which identifies trends in dropout and school completion data. The report tracks four different measures of dropout: Event Dropout Rates, Status Dropout Rates, Status Completion Rates, and Average Freshman Graduation Rates (AFGR). Each measure is calculated differently and can be used to inform different educational questions.

New York’s Transfer High Schools Help Students Who Fall Behind

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When high school students fall behind what happens to them? For many students, some of whom have fallen behind by as much as three years, graduating high school seems like an insurmountable challenge, and many students get lost in the school system. In fact, according to a February 2011 New York Daily News (NYDN) article, there were 106,000 struggling students deemed "overage and under-credited" in city schools last year.

School-Wide Literacy Possible Key to High School Turnaround

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On September 22, 2011, the National High School Center hosted a Webinar entitled “Using Literacy to Turn Around High Schools: Lessons Learned from Sue Szachowicz.” During the Webinar, Dr. Szachowicz, principal of Brockton High School (Brockton, MA), spoke as a follow up to her May 2011 presentation at the Midwest High School SIG Conference.  Dr.

Updated High School Initiative Map Provides Data on College-and Career-Readiness

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The National High School Center has updated the High School Initiatives Map with new information on state high school graduation requirements, university admission requirements, and the number of high school students in each state.  This resource allows users to compare each state’s high school graduation requirements and college admission requirements.

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