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JAM REPORT: Bringing the Best of Early College to Scale
From the Middle College National Consortium (MCNC), NCNSP, Jobs for the Future and other partners, this summary report includes discussions and findings from the 2011 online JAM about "Bringing the Best of Early College to Scale."
3 FEB 2012
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Accelerating College Readiness: Lessons from North Carolina Innovator Early Colleges
This 2011 report from Jobs for the Future was written by Cecilia Le and Jill Frankfort.
Half of all states have at least one early college, but North Carolina leads the nation with 71 early colleges, each located on the campus of a partnering higher education institution. With the support of the North Carolina New Schools Project, a public-private organization that develops innovative high schools, North Carolina now has the most early colleges of any state and substantial data about what works.
This brief explores the lessons and best practices from five of North Carolina's early colleges based on their highly effective strategies to prepare all students for postsecondary education.
Three of the Innovators (Anson County Early College, Buncombe County Early College, and Davidson County Early College) are among the state's first early colleges and offer five years of lessons in preparing high school students for college rigor. The other two Innovator schools, Vance County Early College and Warren Early College, opened in the 2008 school year and offer emerging examples of practices that accelerate the academic progress of all students.
This is the first of several publications JFF released during its 3rd annual National Early College High School Week, celebrating the successes of our 230 schools across 28 states. Early college high schools serve more than 50,000 students a year, most of them from minority and low-income families.21 MAR 2011
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2011 Education Agenda of Gov. Beverly Perdue
A pocket card version of Gov. Perdue's 2011 education agenda, "Career & College: Ready, Set, Go!"
14 FEB 2011
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A Policymaker’s Guide to Early College Designs: Expanding a Strategy for Achieving College Readiness for All
Jobs for the Future (JFF) created this report to help policymakers make informed decisions as they plan for and implement early college designs. It outlines what it would take to systematize and scale up early college course taking, extending the benefits to all high school students, secondary schools, and colleges across the country. The report also features North Carolina's work -- including efforts by the NC New Schools Project -- as a leader in the implementation of early college high schools.
Other highlights from the report:
- Must have a focus on the core designs of effective ECHS --simply calling a school an early college is insufficient.
- Clear design elements focused on college credit acquisition for high needs children are essential.
- Early college targets first-generation college-going students -- it is not intended as a way to accelerate middle class students.22 OCT 2010
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A Better 9th Grade: Early Results from an Experimental Study of the Early College High School Model
To increase the number of students graduating from high school prepared for college, North Carolina has established the largest number of Early College High Schools (ECHS) in the United States. Early results from a rigorous, independent study of North Carolina’s initiative have shown that these schools have substantial positive impacts on student performance. This brief from the SERVE Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro gives an overview of the ECHS model as implemented in North Carolina, the study’s design, and ECHS’ impacts on grade 9 students.
20 SEP 2010
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New Teacher Center Research Brief: Teacher Working Conditions in Redesigned and Early College High Schools
This report from the New Teacher Center, a professional development group based in Santa Cruz, Calif., analyzes data from the 2010 N.C. Teacher Working Conditions Survey for NCNSP high schools. According to the report, teachers in North Carolina's innovative high schools give higher marks on key work issues than do their counterparts in the state's traditional high schools. The New Teacher Center found that teachers in the schools that are partners with NCNSP offered significantly more positive responses about such issues as professional development, class size, time and resources.
19 JUL 2010
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College and Career Ready Graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
A strong consensus is developing among states, districts, and key stakeholders that the ultimate goal of K-12 education must be for all students not just to graduate from high school but to graduate with the requisite skills to succeed in completing a postsecondary credential and entering a career.
7 MAY 2010
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Friday Institute: Research Highlights from Evaluation Studies in NC Schools Implementing Technology Immersion Initiatives
Since 2008, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation in the College of Education at NC State University has conducted several evaluations for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction on federal, state, and locally funded school-level technology immersion projects in K-12 settings. This report is a summary of research highlights from those evaluation studies.
19 MAR 2010
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Policies Paved the Way: Early College Innovation in North Carolina
This brief describes how North Carolina has spurred and supported this successful educational innovation. It is told from the perspective of leaders of early college schools who were asked about the state policies that have supported their success.
1 FEB 2010
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One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America's High Schools
This national report finds that all parents, regardless of income, education levels or the schools their children attend, share similar hopes for the success of their high school-age children in readiness for college, careers and life. Yet a large percentage of parents think their children's high schools are falling short in helping their children succeed and reach their potential.
1 OCT 2008
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