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College and career ready : helping all students succeed beyond high school /

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Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and work. College and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conley, David T., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Wiley Online Library.
Subjects:
College graduates > Employment.
Education, Higher > United States > Evaluation.
School-to-work transition.
Universities and colleges.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The four key dimensions of college and career readiness
  • Ways to develop key cognitive strategies and key content knowledge
  • Ways to develop self-management skills and "college knowledge"
  • Key principles of college and career readiness
  • Case studies of schools that succeed
  • Putting it all together
  • Steps high schools are taking to make more students college and career ready
  • Step states are taking to make more students college and career ready
  • Appendix A: Two examples of tasks that develop and assess key cognitive strategies
  • Appendix B: Example items from the school diagnostic
  • Appendix C: Resource list.