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What Does It Mean to Be College Ready?: Helping All Students Get There

Bob LenzJune 13, 2007

Tags College Readiness, Teacher Development, High (9-12), California

What does it mean to be college ready? How do you design schools, and the systems to support them, to reach the goal of preparing all students to graduate from college?

What does it mean to be college ready? How do you design schools, and the systems to support them, to reach the goal of preparing all students to graduate from college? Read More

First in My Family: Paving the Road to College

Diane Demee-BenoitNovember 8, 2006

Tags College Readiness, , All Grades

My parents were young teens during the occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Their formal education was disrupted by the war, and the economic rebuilding in Hong Kong in the post-war years prevented my parents from continuing their studies.

My parents were young teens during the occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Their formal education was disrupted by the war, and the economic rebuilding in Hong Kong in the post-war years prevented my parents from continuing their studies. Read More