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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
About the Author | p. xv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Should and Can Today's High Schools Prepare Ail Students for College and Careers? | |
College Ready and Work Ready: One and the Same? | |
The New Challenge | |
What We Mean by "Ready for College and Careers" | |
Redefining College and Career Readiness | |
The Four Key Dimensions of College and Career Readiness | p. 19 |
General Elements of a More Comprehensive Definition of College and Career Readiness | |
Current Means to Determine College and Career Readiness | |
An Examination of the Four Dimensions of College and Career Readiness | |
Differences Between High School and College Courses | |
Operational Examples of College Readiness | |
Ways to Develop Key Cognitive Strategies and Key Content Knowledge | p. 53 |
Focusing on the "Big Ideas" | |
Aligning Courses and Expectations Between High School and College | |
Formative Assessment for College Readiness | |
Ways to Develop Self-Management Skills and "College Knowledge" | p. 72 |
Elements of Self-Management | |
"College Knowledge"-Contextual Skills and Awareness | |
Key Principles of College and Career Readiness | p. 104 |
Create and Maintain a College-Going Culture in the School | |
Create a Core Academic Program Aligned with and Leading to College Readiness by the End of Twelfth Grade | |
Teach Key Self-Management Skills and Academic Behaviors and Expect Students to Use Them | |
Make College and Careers Real by Helping Students Manage the Complexity of Preparing for and Applying to Postsecondary Education | |
Create Assignments and Grading Policies That More Closely Approximate College Expectations Each Successive Year of High School | |
Make the Senior Year Meaningful and Appropriately Challenging | |
Build Partnerships with and Connections to Postsecondary Programs and Institutions | |
Case Studies of Schools That Succeed | p. 133 |
Alternative School: University Park Campus School, Worcester, Massachusetts | |
Magnet School: Fenway High School, Boston, Massachusetts | |
Comprehensive High School: Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colorado | |
Charter School: Minnesota New Country School, Henderson, Minnesota | |
Early College High School: Manhattan Hunter Science High School, New York, New York | |
Comprehensive High School: Garland High School, Garland, Texas | |
Magnet School: Polytech High School, Woodside, Delaware | |
Private School: Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Chicago, Illinois | |
Putting It All Together | p. 176 |
Develop a Profile of the School's College Readiness Capacity | |
Identify Outcome Measures of Success | |
Assess the District Capacity to Support Improvements | |
Institute Specific Programs to Address the Four Dimensions of College and Career Readiness | |
Institute Professional Development to Support College Readiness | |
Recognize the Importance of Culture and Change Culture | |
Gauge the Progress of Changes in the High School | |
What Are the Effects on Student Performance in College? | |
Steps on the Road to Readiness | |
Steps High Schools Are Taking to Make More Students College and Career Ready | p. 205 |
Small Schools and High School Conversions | |
Career Academies | |
Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs | |
Early College High Schools | |
Dual Credit | |
Learning from the New Models | |
Steps States Are Taking to Make More Students College and Career Ready | p. 219 |
State Actions to Date | |
Examples of State Actions | |
State College Readiness Standards: The Example of Texas | |
Clear Messages States Can Send to the Secondary System | |
Clear Messages States Can Send to Their Postsecondary Systems | |
Concluding Observations | |
Afterword | p. 265 |
Two Examples of Tasks That Develop and Assess Key Cognitive Strategies | p. 269 |
Example Items from the School Diagnostic | p. 303 |
Resource List | p. 307 |
Index | p. 311 |
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