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• Beyond High School: An Examination of Hispanic Educational Attainment

  1/1/00 - Jasinski, Jana L.

  Low educational attainment has been a barrier to the advancement of Hispanic Americans in the United States, and a number of explanations for this have been suggested. One group of explanations centers around Hispanic Americans' use and exposure to English. A second group of explanations focuses more on socioeconomic disadvantages facing this population. Much of the research that looks at educational attainment among Hispanic Americans, however, does not consider Hispanic group differences...

• Closing Achievement Gaps: Roles and Tasks of Elementary School Counselors

  1/1/08 - Trusty, Jerry, Mellin, Elizabeth A., Herbert, James T.

  Achievement gaps among racial-ethnic and socioeconomic status groups are an enduring, pervasive, and multifaceted phenomenon. Therefore, efforts aimed at understanding and addressing these gaps must be developmentally and environmentally broad, involving numerous school counselor roles and tasks, including leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and strategic interventions. In this article, we first document achievement gap trends and then provide a framework for understanding and sequencing...

• Closing Achievement Gaps: Roles and Tasks of Elementary School Counselors

  1/1/08 - Trusty, Jerry, Mellin, Elizabeth A., Herbert, James T.

  Achievement gaps among racial-ethnic and socioeconomic status groups are an enduring, pervasive, and multifaceted phenomenon. Therefore, efforts aimed at understanding and addressing these gaps must be developmentally and environmentally broad, involving numerous school counselor roles and tasks, including leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and strategic interventions. In this article, we first document achievement gap trends and then provide a framework for understanding and sequencing...

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  College Bound San Diego: An Educational Component of Concerned Parents Alliance, Inc.

  1/2/09 - Tonika Duren Green, Darlene Willis, Marsha Dodson, Martha Parham

  This presentation addresses issues in ensuring student graduation and college sucess

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  Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts

  1/5/09 - Harris, L., Ganzlglass, E.

  This paper advocates expansion and better integration of efforts to connect high school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 24 to pathways to postsecondary credentials that have value in the labor market. The paper highlights examples of innovations in policy, program delivery, pedagogy in adult education, youth development and dropout recovery, and postsecondary education that should be built upon in developing more robust and successful dropout recovery and postsecondary education policies...

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  Developing Pathways to Postsecondary Success

  1/3/09 - Laura Hand, Benah Parker, Sybil Francis

  High school can no longer be the socially accepted endpoint of a student’s education. It is time to work towards a transition between high school and postsecondary that is as seamless as the transition from middle school to high school. Real and perceived barriers to entry to postsecondary need to be addressed, and pathways towards postsecondary education should be created in order to achieve this goal. The current assumption that postsecondary is unnecessary for many students has...

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  Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support

  1/3/09 - National High School Center,

  The development of state policy to promote academic achievement for ELLs is critical to improving educational outcomes and consistent with the goals of increasing high school graduation rates and meeting Adequate Yearly Progress under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Recent research indicates that states have multiple opportunities to take the initiative in supporting school systems and schools in their efforts to keep ELLs on track to meet postsecondary success.

• Field experience models

  The National Technical Assistance Center for Personnel Preparation in Special Education Minority Institutions of Higher Education (Monarch Center),

  These resources provide descriptions of field experiences approaches, models, and assignments that have been effective for use with future special education professionals. Discussions of challenges, barriers, and accomplishments are also included.

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  Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program

  1/3/09 - National High School Center,

  This research brief on the Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI), a dual enrollment program developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, examines lessons learned and best practices gleaned from an evaluation specific to the ECHSI, “Early College High School Initiative 2003-2005 Evaluation Report.” These findings help inform those interested in developing or implementing dual enrollment programs as a strategy to accelerate learning and help bridge transitions after graduation.

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  Full set of National Task Force reports on quality of services in postsecondary education of deaf and hard of hearing students

  1/14/09 - Struckless, R., Ashmore, D., Schroedel, J., Simon, J.A.

  A full set of reports to assist postsecondary institutions in developing and maintaining special services of quality as needed by their deaf and hard of hearing students. Each report has been prepared with postsecondary administrators, faculty, and staff in mind. These reports may be useful also to deaf and hard of hearing students in gaining more information about services for which they may be eligible.

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  High school course-taking patterns for english language learners: A case study from California

  1/1/09 - Finkelstein, N. , Huang, M. , Fong, A.

  English language learners (ELLs) represent a large group that is underrepresented in college. ELLs face an increased challenge to meet college preparatory requirements when courses that are structured to support their language development do not contain the academic content that is required for students to stay on track for college.

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  High school standards and expectations for college and the workplace (Issues & Answers Report, REL 2007-No. 001)

  1/3/09 - Kendall, J. S., Pollack, C., Schwols, A., Snyder, C.

  Colleges and employers are growing increasingly concerned that high school students lack the knowledge and skills needed for success after graduation. To find out whether the expectations of the Central Region states match the expectations of colleges and the workplace, state standards for what students should know and be able to do in English language arts and mathematics are compared with expectations common to two national studies on skills needed for entry to college and the workplace...

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  Interpreting for postsecondary deaf students

  1/10/09 - Sanderson, G., Siple, L., Lyons, B.

  The National Task Force Reports individually and collectively disscuss some of today's "current" issues facing college students and administrators. They are designed to offer historical perspective, a look at current practices and innovative ideas for the future.

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  Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century

  1/7/10 - Pinkus, L.M.

  Success in today’s global and entrepreneurial economy increasingly requires some form of postsecondary education or training. Yet too many students—particularly poor and minority students—leave the K–12 system without the knowledge and skills necessary for success after high school. The long-term implications of an inadequate education have social and economic consequences for individuals, the communities in which they live, and the nation as a whole. The challenge ahead is twofold...

• Mentoring and induction for special educators and related service personnel

  The National Technical Assistance Center for Personnel Preparation in Special Education Minority Institutions of Higher Education (Monarch Center),

  This section offers articles and other resources that describe induction programs and mentoring approaches for beginning professionals who work with students with disabilities. Included are mentoring and induction programs that involve a college or university in the partnership. The section also includes discussions of the various challenges associated with this work.

• Models for preparing culturally responsive special education personnel

  The National Technical Assistance Center for Personnel Preparation in Special Education Minority Institutions of Higher Education (Monarch Center),

  Provides descriptions of personnel preparation programs that are culturally and linguistically responsive.