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Learn More About College and Career Readiness College and career readiness has become a key priority for the PK-20 education community and the nation at large. Institutes of higher education and the business community have long expressed the inadequacy of a traditional high school education in preparing students for the postsecondary education or training necessary to succeed in these careers (Carenevale, et al., 2010; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009), and the increasingly competitive global economy makes it imperative that all students graduate high school prepared to take on postsecondary life challenges in the 21st century.
The National High School Center conducted a scan of organizations that address college and career readiness and identified more than 70 such organizations, including those focused on policy, practice, advocacy, access and research. Through this scan, the Center identified three major strands of work and created the College and Career Development Organizer. The organizer is intended to help users traverse the vast college and career readiness landscape, encouraging conversations on each of the three strands and serving as a tool that can support the development of strategies and initiatives to better prepare all students for college and careers. Additionally, the National High School Center has created a series of tools and briefs to extrapolate on the College and Career Development Organizer and provide further insight into this increasingly complicated field of college and career readiness initiatives. An invitation-only symposium on April 24, 2012 in Washington, D.C. encouraged further conversations about the topic.
This college and career development organizer was created to synthesize and organize an increasingly complicated and crowded field of college and career readiness initiatives. The organizer, composed of three strands, can be used to map the efforts of SEAs and LEAs as well as the many organizations devoted to researching and providing support for college and career readiness. The organizer can also be used as a set of building blocks to help SEA, LEAs, schools, and other organizations develop college and career readiness strategies and initiatives to address student needs. Stakeholders can use the components of the organizer to ensure that they are designing comprehensive college and career readiness definitions and strategies that address all aspects of the field that are essential to their context. (April 2012)
Implementing RTI in high schools requires educators to work across traditional boundaries. This brief presents a portrait of RTI implementation in three Colorado high schools as well as the state and district practices that support implementation at the school level. (March 2012)
The National High School Center's YouTube channel features the latest videos from our Webinars, conferences, and other ongoing initiatives. Check out the channel for our resources on high school early warning systems, School Improvement Grants (SIG), high school literacy, and other topics, and stay tuned for more resources as they become available!
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The National High School Center’s Communities of Practice serve as resources to support the high school improvement work of our stakeholders across the nation. The free, online communities on early warning systems and high school tiered interventions include threaded discussions, blogs, multimedia resources, guides and how-tos. Check out one or both of the communities for assistance with your high school work!
High School Matters: The National High School Center Info Blog High School Matters, the National High School Center's Info Blog,
is a new resource that provides an objective perspective on the latest research, topical issues, and events that affect high school improvement and other related national, state and local K-12 initiatives. Authored by staff and external experts from the National High School Center and updated several times per week, High School Matters offers insight into specific evidence-based information and resources for readers interested in staying abreast of emerging and recent high school improvement activities, as well as snapshots of promising and effective practices.
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College and career readiness has become a key priority for the PK-20 education community and the nation at large. Institutes of higher education and the business community have long expressed the inadequacy of a traditional high school education in preparing students for the postsecondary education or training necessary to succeed in these careers (Carenevale, et al., 2010; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009), and the increasingly competitive global economy makes it imperative that all students graduate high school prepared to take on postsecondary life challenges in the 21st century.
This college and career development organizer was created to synthesize and organize an increasingly complicated and crowded field of college and career readiness initiatives. The organizer, composed of three strands, can be used to map the efforts of SEAs and LEAs as well as the many organizations devoted to researching and providing support for college and career readiness. The organizer can also be used as a set of building blocks to help SEA, LEAs, schools, and other organizations develop college and career readiness strategies and initiatives to address student needs. Stakeholders can use the components of the organizer to ensure that they are designing comprehensive college and career readiness definitions and strategies that address all aspects of the field that are essential to their context. (April 2012) 
Implementing RTI in high schools requires educators to work across traditional boundaries. This brief presents a portrait of RTI implementation in three Colorado high schools as well as the state and district practices that support implementation at the school level. (March 2012)
