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College and Career Readiness

CRPE studies how to rethink the high school-to-career continuum. We address critical research areas such as the gaps in current methods of preparing students for life after high school, experimental high school models that have emerged in response to the shifting educational landscape, and state policies that support high-quality and accessible secondary work-based learning and relevant career training.

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Propelling Career and Technical Education in a Portfolio System

Georgia Heyward

This post comes from the first edition of Re:portfolio, a publication with articles, news clips, and resources about the portfolio strategy.

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What if High School Were Different?

Georgia Heyward

I am the oldest of four children. The youngest is my brother Stephen. Regular school was never a good fit for Stephen.

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Schools Lead the Way but the System Must Change: Rethinking Career and Technical Education

Georgia Heyward

CRPE has identified 32 programs around the country that represent the variety of efforts being used to reinvent career and technical education.

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Rethinking the Traditional High School-College-Career Continuum

Robin Lake, Georgia Heyward, Tom Coyne

This essay explores the systemic changes needed to ensure student access to meaningful pathways to college prep and career training.

  • Research Reports    

Mind the Gap: Will All Students Benefit From 21st Century Learning?

Tricia Maas, Ashley Jochim, Betheny Gross

CRPE researchers find inequities in current 21st century learning approaches and recommend strategies to deliver better learning opportunities for all students.

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The Case for Coherent High Schools

Paul Hill, Tricia Maas

This paper explains why personalized high schools are hard to get and keep, and shows how we can make them more broadly available through changes in policy and philanthropic investments.

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Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What’s Real and What’s Imagined?

Larry Miller

This report examines federal, state, and district barriers that principals say hinder their ability to make innovative school improvements.

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Community Colleges and Higher Education: How Do State Transfer and Articulation Policies Impact Student Pathways?

Dan Goldhaber, Betheny Gross, Scott DeBurgomaster

This paper reviews state cross-institutional policies designed to better integrate community colleges with four-year college and university system schools, and examines how patterns of college attendance, transfer, and degree earning vary across states with different policies.

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