Learning Exchange Materials

EDUCATION MODELS

• Summary of Education Models

GENERAL READING

• Closing the Graduation Gap
• The Literacy-Numeracy manual
• Early Warning Systems from the National High School Center
• Tough Choices
• Think Again

USING DATA FOR VISIBILITY AND INTERVENTION

• Project Reconnect Dropout Outreach and Recovery Report, 2006-2007 Cohort
• Unfulfilled Promise: The Dimensions and Characteristics of Philadelphia's Drop-Out Crisis, 2000-2005
• Turning It Around:  A Collective Effort to Understand and Resolve Philadelphia's Drop-Out Crisis
• Too Big To Be Seen:  The Invisible Dropout Crisis in Boston and American,
• The Social and Fiscal Consequences of the Dropout Crisis
• Strategic Planning to Serve Off-Track Youth, the Parthenon Group’s Longitudinal Study Of Off-Track Students In The Boston Public Schools
• Powerpoint: Dropout Outreach and Recovery, A Report on the Pic’s Dropout Outreach Project, Conducted in Partnership with the Boston Public Schools
• An Act to Improve Dropout Prevention And Reporting Of Graduation Rates
• Identifying Potential Dropouts: Key Lessons For Building An Early Warning Data System

CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AS PART OF YOUR MULTIPLE EDUCATION PATHWAYS:

• Career and Technical Education Strategic Plan: CTE: New Directions for the 21st Century, July 2008
• Striking the Balance: Career Academies Combine Academic Rigor and Workplace Relevance
• Next-Generation Career and Technical Education in New York City

FINANCING EDUCATION OPTIONS

• Expanding Options: State Financing of Education Pathways for Struggling Students and Out-of-School Youth
• Financing Alternative Education Pathways: Profiles and Policy

BUILDING A SUPPORTIVE POLICY ENVIRONMENT

• Setting the Stage for New High Schools Special Report edition of
  Nation's Cities Weekly
• Network Model School Waivers - Indiana State Board of Education
• Leadership Keys for Mayors and Other Municipal Leaders
• Leadership Keys for Program Innovators
• Top 10 Policy Barriers & Opportunities For Expanding Options & Alternatives for High School
• AHSI Policy Perspective - State Policy Examples
• The High Cost of High School Dropouts What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools
• Agenda for the Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act

DRIVING PATHWAY DEVELOPMENT USING DATA: SELECTING THE RIGHT MODEL

BUSINESS AS PARTNERS IN DEVELOPING MULTIPLE PATHWAYS

• Grad Nation: A Guidebok to Help Communities Tackle the Drop-out Crisis

LEADERSHIP AND INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT

LINKING MULTIPLE EDUCATION PATHWAYS TO HIGH SCHOOL REFORM

LAUNCHING NEW ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION MODELS

• Overview of the Alternative High School
• Initiative AHSI Distinguishers
• Evaluating the Impact of Interventions that Promote Successful Transitions from High School

COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES FOR YOUTH IN MULTIPLE PATHWAYS

• Network Initiatives, Street School Network

INNOVATION

• In the Air: Who says Big Ideas are rare
• Building a Better Bridge: A Documentation Report of The New York City Partnership for College Access and Success The Youth Development Institute, January 2008
• Year Up: empowering urban youth to reach their potential

THE INTERSECTION OF ADULT EDUCATION AND MULTIPLE EDUCATION PATHWAYS

• Preparing High School Students for Successful Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Employment

MATH AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING: CREATING A CULTURE OF NUMERACY IN YOUR SCHOOL

• Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Numeracy in Our Schools
• How Math Counts