College Readiness

Hoping to prepare high school graduates to solve complex, real-world problems, an Ohio STEM school found answers in project-based learning.

Enlisting the support of alumni and working professionals, a teacher encourages her second graders to start thinking about colleges and careers.

Many college admission essays are the same, but these exercises can help students find topics that make them stand out.

Ideas for developing students’ capacity to understand and use discipline-specific terminology and the language used in instruction.

Can you predict academic success or whether a child will graduate? You can, but not how you might think. When psychologist Angela Duckworth studied people in various challenging situations, including National Spelling Bee participants, rookie teachers in tough neighborhoods, and West Point cadets, she found: One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ. It was grit.

High school educators can play an important role in preparing students to request accommodations in college.

Rigor doesn't simply mean giving students more or harder work. Instead, it's the result of work that challenges students' thinking in new and interesting ways.

Raise your underserved students' expectations by raising your own, and create a series of reachable, data-based goals, scaffolding your instruction and mitigating their fear of failure.

Matt Davis has highlighted resources for parents, teachers, and administrators that can help students make the transition into elementary, middle, and high school -- and beyond.

As jobs increasingly require new skills, high schools revive programs that help students explore careers in the course of their studies.

To help these kids make the kinds of gains they need to master the Common Core, students must learn to receive feedback and also how to use it to improve.

Encouraging students to reach out to each other to solve problems and share knowledge builds collaborative skills and leads to deeper learning at The College Preparatory School.

Your students can write argumentative essays, but they need additional guidance to produce standout personal narratives.