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ED480710 - Preparing America's Future. The High School Symposium (Washington, DC, April 4, 2002). Excerpted

Summary

Category: Executive Agency Publications

Collection: Education Reports from ERIC

SuDoc Class Number: ED 1.615:

Date Issued: May 1, 2003

Sponsoring Agency: Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC

Publication Type: Other

Subject: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Federal Government, Federal State Relationship, Futures (of Society), Government Role, Government School Relationship, High Schools, Postsecondary Education, Role of Education, School Role, Secondary Education, Statewide Planning

Identifiers: Career and Technical Education

Abstract: This document presents nine papers from a symposium on challenges currently facing U.S..high schools and their role in preparing students for high achievement in postsecondary education. The following papers are included: "What Ails High Schools? How Should They Be Reformed? Is There a Federal Role?" (Chester E. Finn); "Achievement: High Schools in America 2001" (Jan Somerville); "The Missing Middle: Aligning'Education and the Knowledge Economy" (Anthony P. Carnavale, Donna M. Desrochers); "What Should Be the Federal Role in Supporting and Shaping Development of State Accountability Systems for Secondary School Achievement?" (John H. Bishop); "Reconceptualizing Extra Help for High School Students in a High Standards Era" (Robert Balfanz, James McPartland, Alta Shawl; "What Role Can Dual Enrollment Programs Play in Easing the Transition between High School and Postsecondary Education?" (Thomas R. Bailey, Katherine L. Hughes, Melinda Mechur Karp); "Beyond Empty Promises: Policies to Improve Transitions into College and Jobs" (James E. Rosenbaum); "Raising the Achievement of Low- Performing Students: What Can High Schools Do?" (Gene Bottoms); and "The Role of Career and Technical Education in the American High School: A Student- Centered Analysis" (Kenneth Gray). A list of 13 recommendations concludes the document, including better define the high school mission; create better links between the secondary and postsecondary worlds; and better define the role of assessment in high school. Twenty-one endnotes are included.