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High School to Community College: New Efforts to Build Shared Expectations
Author: Rosin, M., Wilson, K.
Publisher: EdSource
Publication Date: 2008, November
Summary or Abstract: Many students who graduate from high school are unprepared for the academic rigors of community college work. Local variations in community college placement practices and “basic skills” curricula send mixed signals and make the problem difficult to measure.
This report focuses on where California’s K-12 and community college systems meet and explores some of the potential opportunities currently under discussion for building better bridges between them. These include utilizing common approaches to assess student readiness and enabling K-12 and community college educators to jointly plan for the successful transition of students from high school to community college.