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Promoting Parent Access to Student Data

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A recent High School Matters blog post, Family Engagement for High School Success Initiative, shared information about the United Way Worldwide’s Family Engagement for High School Success (FEHS), which aims to support disadvantaged high school youth by increasing family involvement in their education. This initiative is part of United Way Worldwide’s strategy to significantly reduce the nation’s high school dropout rate by 2018.

Expanding Learning Opportunities to Prepare Students for College and Career

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On Monday, December 12th, the Alliance for Excellent Education held a Webinar, “Expanded Learning Opportunities: A More Comprehensive Approach to Preparing High School Students for College and a Career,” where panelists Milton Chen, Senior Fellow at Edutopia;  Maria Ferguson, Vice President of the Alliance for Excellent Education; Jeannie Oakes, Director of Educational Opportunity and Scholarship Programs at the Ford Foundation; Brad

Cost-Benefit Analysis of California Partnership Academies

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On Friday, December 9th, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) hosted a seminar Expanding College-and-career Pathways for High School Students: What Does it Cost? During the seminar, University of California –Berkeley professor David Stern presented findings from two related studies.

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 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.

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