Small High Schools
Career Academy
Early College
Dual Credit
AP/ IB Courses
100
The number of students in a small school.
What is fewer than 500 students?
100
Attending a Career Academy.
What is motivation to graduate from high school into a entry level job?
100
Students who desire to quickly complete their secondary schooling.
Who attends Early College?
100
Dual credit goes by the number of labels.
What is post-secondary options, dual enrollment, and concurrent enrollment.
100
16,000 high schools offer these courses which are designed to give students college credit by exam.
What are Advanced Placement or AP courses?
200
These schools are promising and show specific growth with students who do poorly in large districts by...
What is a decrease in dropouts and an increase in student engagement?
200
Career academies impact on urban high schools.
What is a historical successful reform strategy?
200
The model for early college.
What is having students begin to participate in college courses during their last two years of high school while remaining in high school programs.
200
Courses can be taught by college instructor in college, taught at high school by college instructor, or taught in high school by high school instructor.
What is the categories of dual credit programs?
200
The greatest benefits for AP is for what type of student.
What are students historically underrepresented in higher education?
300
Many small schools have managed to graduate.
What is graduate over 90% of their students?
300
Although not a bridge to postsecondary education, Career Academies have accomplished this mission.
What is a high school prevention dropout?
300
Another strength of early college high school model.
What is a partnership with a post-secondary institution/community college.
300
An economical way to proceed through college.
What is earning college credits while in high school.
300
The number of students who take AP exams and recieve a score of 3 or higher.
What is 15%?
400
Counselors are able to assist students and teachers are able to have higher expectations and therefore students...
What is not passing through school unnoticed and disengaged?
400
Lack of attention to the connections and transitions to post secondary education and limiting students abilities.
What is the shortcomings of Career Academy's?
400
Early college high schools employ a wide variety of strategies.
What is helping with the transition from high school to college and scaffolding by tutoring.
400
States encourage dual credit programs because of its financial benefits to both colleges and high schools.
What is called being double counted and thus both colleges and high schools receive state funding?
400
Unlike AP, this program has a proscribed and detailed curriculum that all teachers are expected to abide by if their school is formally certified.
What is IB or International Baccalaureate Program?
500
Strategy used for creating small schools.
What is converting large high schools into smaller schools on the same site?
500
Getting students to aim high and pursue additional amounts of training and formal education.
What is the challenge of Career Academies?
500
The challenge of early college programs.
What is creating well aligned programs?
500
The answer to the major issue that exist with dual credit is what constitutes a college class.
What is rigor of the course?
500
If a student reaches the higher score levels on an IB exam, this student performs at...
What is equivalent to a student in a college course?