Community Colleges
Briefs
- 7/20/2007
- The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School Reform: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education through CTE with Dr. Laurel Adler, Superintendent, East San Gabriel Regional Occupational Program, West Codiva, CA and Mark Whitlock, CEO, Central Education Center, Coweta County, GA (Forum Brief and webcast)
- 4/13/2007
- Opening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants with Wendy Erisman, Senior Research Analyst and Director of Evaluation, Institute for Higher Education Policy, and Deborah A. Santiago, Vice President for Policy and Research, Excelencia in Education, and Margie McHugh, Co Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute. (forum Brief)
- 3/8/2007
- Philadelphia’s Project U-Turn, Citywide Efforts to Address the Dropout Problem with Paul Vallas, Chief Executive Officer, School District of Philadelphia, Ruth Curran Neild, Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University, Courtney Collins-Shapiro, Director, Multiple Pathways to Graduation, School District of Philadelphia, Laura Shubilla, President of the Philadelphia Youth Network. (forum Brief)
- 9/29/2006
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Secondary-Postsecondary Learning Options: Best Practices in the Field with Ron Kindell, Director, Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium, Chery Wagonlander, Principal, Mott Middle College High School, and Jennifer Brown Lerner, Program Associate, American Youth Policy Forum (FORUM Brief)
- 9/08/2006
- Dropout Reconnection as a Local Economic Development Strategy with Andrew O. Moore, Senior Consultant, National League of Cities, Deborah Feldman, Administrator, Montgomery County, Ohio, and Karen Sitnick, Director, Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, Baltimore, Maryland. (Forum brief)
- 3/17/2006
- The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion from High School Through College with Cliff Adelman, Senior Research Analyst, Department of Education (forum brief)
- 3/9/2006
- Inventing Hispanic Serving Institutions: The Basics with Congressman Ruben Hinojosa, Sarita Brown, President, Excelencia in Education, Deborah Santiago, Vice President for Policy and Research, Excelencia in Education, Ricardo Fernandez, President Lehman College, Jose Jaime Rivera, President, Universidad Sagrado Corazon (forum brief)
- 10/21/2005
- Coordinated Efforts Focused on Workforce Development for Out of School Youth in Portland with Carole Smith, Director of Alternative Education, Portland Public Schools, Linda Huddle, Director, Alternative Programs/PCC Prep, Portland Community College, and Andrew Mason, Executive Director, Open Meadow Alternative Schools (forum Brief)
- 10/17/2005
- Increasing Transitions from Adult to Postsecondary Education with Forrest Chisman, Vice President, Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy, Gail Mellow, President, LaGuardia Community College, and Bob Bickerton, Associate Commissioner, MA Center for Lifelong Learning (FORUM Brief)
- 4/8/1994
- Forum: Reinventing Community Colleges for the 21st Century, with Cathryn Addy, President of Tunxis Community-Technical College, Connecticut, and Paul Elsner, Chancellor, Maricopa County Community College District, Arizona. (Forum Brief)
Trip Reports
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12/3/2002 - Career Preparation and Workforce Development in Springfield, MA, and Hartford, CT with visits to Springfield Technical Community College, the Hartford Workforce Investment Board, Hartford YO program, Connecticut Business and Industry Association and other youth and career education programs. (Trip Report)
Publications
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The College Ladder: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education for Success for All Students This compendium identifies and describes schools, programs, and policies that link secondary and postsecondary education to help students earn college credit or take college-level courses while in high school. It raises issues for practitioners and policymakers to consider as these program grow and target a wider range of students. |
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Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth This report documents what committed educators, policymakers, and community leaders across the country are doing to reconnect out-of-school youth to the social and economic mainstream. It provides background on the serious high school dropout problem and describes in-depth what twelve communities are doing to reconnect dropouts to education and employment training. It also includes descriptions of major national program models serving out-of-school youth. |
