Measuring and ensuring college and career readiness for every student requires us to rethink our current assessment and accountability systems. State leaders play a crucial role in setting the stage for more equitable and impactful measurement practices. SEAs must thoroughly understand the tools available to them to create conditions that support schools in selecting high-impact […]
Topic: Postsecondary Access & Success
2024 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category Features coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging. This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to respond […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Most Actionable Tools & Research
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category spotlights resources or tools that shed new light on pressing and widespread problems or solutions and that state and local advocates across the Network leveraged to make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs. See a complete list of 2024 […]
Using Data to Drive College & Career Success: Workforce Data – Challenges & Opportunities
Workforce data is essential to understanding what happens when our students leave high school and college, but it can also be one of the trickiest pieces of the SLDS puzzle. Join this session with Brennan McMahon Parton (DQC) and Angela Perry (DQC) to learn about what we mean when we say “workforce data,” how it […]
Building on Success: National Replications of the ASAP | ACE Models
What if a rigorous randomized control trial found that a program in New York City doubled completion rates for 2-year college students? And what if that program was able to be successfully replicated in states ranging from Ohio to California? The ASAP program has done just that, and leaders across the country are taking note, […]
Supporting Students to College Completion: Solving an Urgent Challenge
Despite concerns about the rising costs of postsecondary education and shifting workforce demands, the path to long-term economic success still relies on education beyond a high school diploma. And yet, nearly 60% of students do not receive a degree or certificate within six years of enrollment. Join this discussion with Christine Brongniart (CUNY ASAP | […]
2024 Higher Ed By The Numbers: The Tennessee Postsecondary Data Book
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What We Learned From Indiana’s Employability Skills Initiative
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Talent Disrupted: Exploring How Well College Students Are Prepared for Employment
While students across the US struggle with college access, affordability, and completion, new research highlights college graduates’ challenges in securing college-level employment. In fact, the report found that only about half of bachelor’s degree graduates secure employment in a college-level job within a year of graduation. Join this virtual discussion with Andrew Hanson (Strada Education […]
‘Segregation Forever’? Private Universities Haven’t Increased Diversity in the Past 20 Years. What Now?
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