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Georgeanne Warnock

Educational Leadership:College, Careers, Citizenship:College and Career Readiness: Same... - 1 views

  • College and Career Readiness: Same or Different? David T. Conley and Charis McGaughy Whether they're headed for college or a career, students need a solid foundation of academic knowledge combined with crucial thinking and learning skills. The importance of all students being college and career ready is one of the most discussed issues in policy circles and secondary schools these days. But are college readiness and career readiness one and the same? The answer has far-reaching implications for how U.S. secondary schools are organized and how they educate students. But First, A Look Back Through most of the 20th century, college readiness and career readiness were more or less distinct, in part because what we now call career readiness was called job training and took the form of vocational education. In fact, from the 1920s on, large school districts had separate high schools for vocationally oriented students and those going on to college (Tyack, 1974). Even in the high schools themselves, vocational students were mostly separated from college-bound students. This model, with its assumptions about the separation of career and college preparation, remained strongly rooted in high schools throughout the 20th century.
Georgeanne Warnock

Educational Leadership:Strong Readers All:Reading and College Readiness - 0 views

  • Sophisticated reading habits are a necessary foundation for college-level writing, research, class participation, and many other college experiences. Yet in one study of first-generation college student experiences, Byrd and MacDonald (2005) found that "college reading was an area in which participants felt particularly underprepared [especially regarding] vocabulary level and the amount of reading required" (p. 32). Developing strong reader identities and practicing thoughtful, transferable reading skills across the disciplines are important components of any pre-college curriculum, but they are especially crucial for low-income students whose college completion rates are much lower than those of their middle-income peers (Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 2010; Carey, 2008).
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