ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career - The Toolkit

 Making Postsecondary and Industry Connections: Postsecondary

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American Youth Policy Forum

The website of the American Youth Policy Forum, an education policy, practice, and research organization, provides a number of briefs and site visit reports about career academies.

http://www.aypf.org/programs/preparation/careeracademies.htm
California Statewide Career Pathways

The California Statewide Career Pathways website helps facilitate articulation agreements between high schools and colleges. It provides a database of articulation agreements, templates for use in creating articulation agreements, and other resources for students, teachers, and counselors.

http://www.statewidepathways.org/index.html
Enhancing Linkages to Postsecondary Education: Helping Youths Make a Successful Transition to CollegeD. Bragg, CenterPoint # 5, NCRVE, Berkeley, July 1999

Available on the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) website, this issue of CenterPoint provides a summary of findings on how best to link secondary and postsecondary education institutions in order to engage the highest numbers of youth and encourage them to make the transition from high school to college.

http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/CenterPoint/CP5/CP5.html
High School to College and Careers: Aligning State PoliciesSREB, 2005

This report, available on the SREB website, outlines state policies related to the transition from high school to college. It includes a discussion of joint enrollment between high school and college, matching high school graduation requirements and college entrance requirements, early outreach and scholarship programs, and data collection on student performance in college.

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