college readiness
Wednesday November 7, 2012
One Unemployment Rate Does Not Fit All
by Mamadou NdiayeA newly released FSG publication, Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth proposes how communities across the country can improve the life trajectories of the nearly 20 percent of our 16- to 24-year-olds, who are not connected to either education or the workforce.
The White House Council on Community Solutions dubs this group of 6.7 million young...
Tuesday October 30, 2012
Response to Sarah Mosle's "Teaching Lessons"
by Clare BertrandIn Sara Mosle’s Oct. 27 piece in The New York Times’ Opinionator column, Teaching Lessons, she writes:
“Teachers can’t go it alone. They need sustained training and support using empirically tested methods in concert and collaboration with one another. This is how schools succeed.”
This simple declaration is not only powerful, but true. There are...
Friday October 19, 2012
Dual Enrollment Students More Likely to Succeed in College
by Ben StruhlJoel Vargas and I recently finished a research study where we found that Texas high school students who take college courses through dual enrollment are a lot more likely to attend college and receive a college degree. There are a few other studies of dual enrollment from other states that support what we found, but our study is different and...