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Adult Education and Literacy
High School, Postsecondary, and Career Education
Trend Watch
Adult Education and Literacy
WIA Legislative Update
The House Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness was scheduled to mark-up legislation reauthorizing the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act on Thursday, March 20, 2003. The Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act of 2003 (H.R. 1261) was introduced by Subcommittee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA) and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Boehner (R-OH) on March 13. The legislation also includes amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which supports vocational rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities, and reauthorizes employment and training programs administered by the Department of Labor. Up to date information about the legislation can be found on the House Committee website.
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High School, Postsecondary, and Career Education
New Report Calls for Better Coordination between High Schools and Colleges
Stanford University's multi-year Bridge Project on K-16 Transition Policies recently released their final report, Betraying the College Dream: How Disconnected K-12 and Postsecondary Education Systems Undermine Student Aspiration. Focusing on six states (CA, IL, GA, MD, OR, and TX), researchers identified factors limiting student success, as well as strategies to improve transitions and completion in postsecondary education. According to the report, promising strategies include P-16 planning, alignment of testing, sequencing of courses, student and parent information, dual enrollment, and common standards and sharing of data across levels of education.
CSU Develops College Remediation Prevention Program
The California State University (CSU) system will begin a pilot program at 50 high schools to identify students at risk for remediation before they enter college. The program would administer an expanded eleventh-grade California Standards Test in mathematics and English to twelfth-grade students before their senior year. The test results would convey to students if they need to raise their math and English skills before entering college. The pilot program is in response to a CSU report that concluded 59 percent of entering freshmen needed remedial education in math and English.
Are For-Profits a Threat to Public Postsecondary Institutions?
For-profit enrollments at the postsecondary level are growing, but their market share remains small, says a new report by the Community College Research Center and the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement. However, the for-profit experience has important lessons for community colleges, especially with respect to student services, program flexibility, use of data for program improvement, curriculum development, and a focus on outcomes. For-Profit Higher Education and Community Colleges
concludes that community colleges and their for-profit competitors are appropriate for different types of students.Top
Trend Watch
Rate of Students Considering Dropping Out
According to the MetLife survey of the American Teacher 2002:
- 20 percent of 7th - 12th graders have thought about dropping out of school
- 57 percent of students with D and F grades consider dropping out
- On average, teachers believe that 12.7 percent of their students have considered dropping out
- 82 percent of those students considering dropping out have not talked to a teacher about their plans
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