How ESSA and IDEA Can Support College and Career Readiness for Students with Disabilities
Learn how to promote college and career readiness for students with disabilities.
Academic Supports
Evidence-Based Practices Supporting College and Career Readiness in High School: Early College High School
Explore Early College High Schools as an evidenced-based practice to support high school college and career readiness.
Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Support State Visions for College and Career Readiness
Learn about the opportunities to leverage the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2015 (ESSA) to promote a coherent college and career readiness vision.
Redesigning School Accountability and Support: Progress in Pioneering States
With the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states now have flexibility to design more balanced accountability systems. This report details the advancement made by 10 states to create accountability systems that support meaningful learning opportunities, especially in terms of current policy and capacity-building efforts in designing accountability frameworks. Included in this report are examples of state legislation, working papers, and board meeting minutes.
State Policies to Support Competency-Based Education for Overage, Under-Credited Students
Learn how competency-based education can support overage, under-credited students’ graduate college and career ready.
In Search of a Match: A Guide for Helping Students Make Informed College Choices
This guide from MDRC is intended for counselors, teachers, and advisers. It offers strategies for helping low-income families and students identify colleges that are a good fit for their academic profiles and financial needs. Most of the suggestions in this guide come from insights through the College Match Program, a pilot program implemented in Chicago and New York City to address the problem of high school students enrolling in colleges they are academically overqualified for and for students who do not apply to college at all.
Education on Air
Reducing Summer Melt: Helping 12th Graders Successfully Transition to College
Submitted by Ann Coles on
How many students have you or a colleague helped get into college with a good financial aid package only to discover later that they never enrolled? Unfortunately, every year, thousands of 12th graders finish high school excited about going to college, only to fall off track. This is especially common among those whose families have little to no experience navigating the final steps they must take to matriculate.
New REL Midwest Report Highlights Online Course Use in Iowa and Wisconsin
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The use of online courses has grown rapidly over the past decade and is projected to increase, yet few states or districts collect data about how and why schools enroll students in online courses. Accurately capturing student participation is complicated by the variety of ways that schools use online learning. As online learning grows exponentially, we need more information about how schools are using it to inform policy and best practice.
Concurrent Enrollment Thriving in Rural Schools Despite Challenges
Submitted by Kimberly Mobley on
Rural students are less likely to enroll in college than their urban peers.[i] But new college credit programs have given rural students a convenient alternative path to post-secondary education. Concurrent enrollment programs – high schools offering college coursework – can benefit rural students, given that participation in concurrent enrollment programs increases the likelihood of not only college enrollment, but college completion.
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