Information on aligning and articulating instruction and programs between high schools and colleges.
Over the past several years an exciting new initiative has been taking place to launch employer-education partnerships to, in part, align education to advance regional economic objectives through a focus on regional industry sectors. In 2008, the Morgan Family Foundation launched the California Stewardship Network as a civic venture, investing $ 1.5 million over 2 years in
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Students, parents and counsellors who wish to explore college majors in California 4-year colleges may find the Assist.Org website helpful. ASSIST is an online student-transfer information system that shows how course credits earned at one public California college or university can be applied when transferred to another. ASSIST is the official repository of articulation for California’s
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Dan Frank, Instructor at Rocklin High School, and Carol Pepper-Kittredge, Director of the Center for Applied Competitive Technologies at Sierra College have been working together over the past three years to both improve articulation, professional development and work towards developing an integrated pathway (vertical integration) for the Engineering and Design Industry Sector. Carol has just
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While Stanford has 400 undergraduates who have declared computer science as their major, 90% of the university’s 6,940 undergraduates are now taking at least one computer science course even though it is not required to graduate. When preparing the master schedule for next year, high school administrators and counselors should consider offering an elective foundational
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