Rural America's Pathways to College and Career: Steps for Student Success and School Improvement

ISBN-13: 9780367530433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 284 str.

Rick Dalton

Opis

This book provides solutions to the vexing educational challenges that rural communities face and serves as a how-to guide for building college and career readiness within rural schools.

Spis treści

1. Rural America Today  2. Building Successful Rural Schools: Beating the Odds 3. The Essential Skills: Building Blocks of College and Career Readiness 4. College and Career Readiness Advisors: Navigators to a New World   5. Business Collaboration and Job Readiness: How to Find, Launch, and Retain Partners  6. Building Readiness for College  7. Leveraging Technology: Expanding Rural Opportunities  8. Staying in College: Solving Rural America’s Dropout Crisis  9. Building STEM Interest, Awareness, and Readiness: The Future is Now  10. Paying for College: There’s Help Out There

O autorze

Rick Dalton is President and CEO of CFES (College for Every Student) Brilliant Pathways and has spent the last 35 years expanding opportunities in higher education for economically disadvantaged youth. He has written more than 200 articles and op-eds on college access and success.