State Profiles on Policies Leading Students From High School to Careers

Does your state have activities and policies that effectively guide students from high school and prepare them for college and careers?

The Southern Regional Education Board report, High School to College and Careers: Aligning State Policies 2007, provides a Southern state by state synopsis on the policies, programs and high school graduation requirements that promote college and career readiness.

The report assesses the availability proven college and career readiness best practices including: dual enrollment programs that enable high school students to take college level courses for credit and feedback reports that notify individual high schools of how their graduates are performing in college.

The full report is available at: http://www.sreb.org/main/Goals/Publications/06E20_Aligning_2007.pdf

(Many thanks to Southern Compass for bringing this to our attention. While it focuses on Southern States, the proposals and programs are applicable to all states. Russ)

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