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The purpose of this book is to help improve students' readiness for colleges and careers through the creation of partnerships between high schools and colleges. To achieve this goal, the book presents detailed and practical definitions, tools, strategies, and examples to help high schools, colleges, and communities partner to improve student learning and success as they navigate from one education sector into another and into the workforce. The tools and strategies are consistent with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS); using the information presented in this book will support efforts to...

This volume profiles some of the innovative reforms community college practitioners are engaged in, focusing on supporting students through to graduation. While much has been written at the federal and state levels about the need to improve student completion rates, this volume translates that imperative into action at the campus level. It presents the practitiners' voices and experiences in:

• Changing academic content
• Pedagogy
• Student support services
• And other critical components of community colleges.

Each chapter focuses on either a...

Minding the Gap argues that in today s highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education.

Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees. In doing so, Minding the Gap calls for a system that thoroughly integrates secondary and postsecondary...