College and career readiness

New hope for an old school?

Detroit

57 mins ago

Auto company investment brings promise — and yet another change — to a Detroit high school

The history of Detroit's Southeastern High School has mirrored the rise — and long, hard fall — of its near east side neighborhood. It is now on the cusp of change.

Advocacy shift

Tennessee

2 days ago

Tennessee education group SCORE will expand focus beyond K-12

The influential public education advocacy organization joins forces with another nonprofit group in Tennessee.

College Access

Newark

June 13, 2019

A Newark charter school celebrates its first graduates — from college

Like a growing number of high schools, People's Prep has expanded its mission from simply graduating students to ensuring that they attend and complete college.

Head Start

Colorado

June 5, 2019

How these Denver students earned credits for a college Spanish minor while in high school

The program has been so successful that it’s expanding to several other Denver high schools this fall.

nudge to nowhere

National

May 31, 2019

The College Board tried a simple, cheap, research-backed way to push low-income kids into better colleges. It didn’t work.

“Our interventions led to no change in the likelihood or sector of college enrollment,” the new paper, largely written by in-house researchers at the College Board, says.

The college push

Chicago

May 14, 2019

To get more students to and through college, Chicago is pushing this approach

Alan Quintana’s last year of high school at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy looked a lot more like the second year of college.

job training

Tennessee

May 14, 2019

New Memphis program encourages more students to pursue careers in construction

The after-school program is Gov. Bill Lee’s latest push to train more high school students to enter careers straight out of high school.

Decision day

Detroit

May 2, 2019

A big decision, a declaration, and a future of hope for these soon-to-be Detroit high school graduates

Schools in Detroit are celebrating College Decision Day throughout the month of May.

College help

Detroit

April 24, 2019

How a coach and a financial incentive helped Detroit high school graduates succeed in college

The Detroit Promise Path scholarship was created over concern that so many scholarship recipients were dropping out of college after one year.

Career Education

Detroit

April 18, 2019

$10 million later, this Detroit career technical center is ‘back into the light’

The $10 million investment in the Breithaupt Career Technical Center will help prepare students for high-demand jobs.

College Readiness

Colorado

April 3, 2019

Effort to increase college courses in high school moves ahead

A Colorado bill would require districts to offer concurrent enrollment , where students get both college and high school credit for classes without paying college tuition

College Readiness

Colorado

April 1, 2019

High school students taking more college courses, but it isn’t enough for lawmakers

More than one-third of 11th and 12th graders took college courses during the 2017-18 academic year. That’s still less than the…

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