higher education
Proposal For An Innovation Diploma
What if we created a new competency-based high school diploma framework focused on innovation that represented preparedness for the automation economy? Here's an outline of what that could look like.
Staying Ahead of the Robots: What Grads Should Know and Be Able To Do
The automation economy is changing the employment landscape, making it a good time to reconsider the purpose and goals of public education. How do we prepare students for success in the future?
3 Ways Computer Science Class Can Help with Student Readiness
By: Sofia Cabrera. While I was initially intimidated by the thought of taking a computer science class my senior year, I now know it had a tremendously positive impact on my readiness for college, career and life in several important ways.
What Do You Think About CTE?
Career Technical Education has come a long way in the past few decades, preparing high school students of all ages for a wide range of high-wage, high-skill, high-demand careers they can begin quickly after graduating.
ConnectEd Takes Linked Learning National
ConnectEd team members discuss working to scale the Linked Learning program nationally to ensure all students have access to high-quality college and career pathways, preparing them for success in college, career, community, and life.
A Monster Bet on Gap Closing Relationships and Supports
Learn more about The Academy Group, a new enterprise designed to prepare young people from under-resourced communities to own and operate successful companies nationwide.
What Helped Me Succeed in College and Beyond: A Student’s Perspective
By: Rich Nickel. Our current system is not adequately serving our low-income students, first-generation college students and minority students. Here's one student's take on the supports that helped him overcome this challenge.
Getting At-Risk Students on a Path to College
By: Dennis Pierce. Guilford County’s early & middle college programs are helping even struggling students graduate with college credit. Here, I look at how their program is designed.
Creating Reliable Hope in the Face of Rural Poverty
ForwARd Arkansas is taking on learning inequity challenges in rural areas of the state by convening and supporting a group of school districts with the goal of helping every Arkansas student graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace.
An Integrated Approach to Academic and Social Supports
In our latest publication, Tom Vander Ark and Mary Ryerse make the case for college readiness, relay the story of the academic and social-support-driven AVID program, and illustrate how partnerships can enhance college, career and life readiness initiatives.