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Retention Best Practices: A Collection of Best Practices from North Carolina Community Colleges
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This report, compiled by the Student Development Services within the North Carolina Community Colegee System, discusses the best practices of several North Carolina Community Colleges in their efforts to address and imrpove retention by providing increased services, caring strategies, early interventions, and other methods and/or courses of action. Best practices are listed by college and topic with campus contact information included. |
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State Sector Strategies Coming of Age: Implications for State Workforce Policymakers
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The report describes current sector
strategies, discusses their difference from traditional workforce and economic
development programs, and describes actions that state administrators and
policymakers can take to create strategies and implement them effectively.
These strategies are among a small number of
workforce interventions with statistical evidence showing improvements for
workers in employment opportunities and in wage increases. |
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January 2013 YouthNotes
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January 2013 YouthNotes |
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Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire's Competency-Based System
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This report, released by the Alliance for Excellent
Education in January 2013, profiles how two high schools in New Hampshire made this shift and
examines the necessary changes at both the school and in state policy.
Competency-based advancement is an important part of New Hampshireâ??s strategy
for implementing the Common Core State Standards and meeting the state
department of educationâ??s goal that every student â??deserves a course of study
that allows him or her to learn in a deep, meaningful, and practical way.â?Ì |
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First-Year Undergraduate Remedial Coursetaking: 1990-2000, 2003-04, 2007-08
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This report, released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in January 2013, finds a decline in the percentage of first-year undergradaute students who reported enrolling in remedial courses. Moreover, remedial course-taking rates declined among stundets of color, but they continue to be higher than those of their white peers. |
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Keeping Kids on Track in the Middle School Years: Investing in Out-of-School Time Staff and Volunteer Competencies as a Dropout Prevention Strategy
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This report, released by the National Human Services Assembly in January 2013, discusses solutions to problems known as "dropping out" and "disconnected youth." The brief makes the case for a specific evidence-based strategy: ensruing that adults who serve middle schoolder have the competencies needed to deliver highly effective out-of-school time (OST) services. Three leading practices are highlighted: training and development specific with this age group and its development stages, aligning talent development with quality improvement, and investing in OST managers' competencies. |
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Kirk Kramer bio
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Members Forum: Kirk Kramer bio |
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2013 NYEC DC PEPNet Announcement
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2013 NYEC DC PEPNet Announcement |
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Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009-10 (First Glance)
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This report presents the number of high school completers and the dropout data for grades 9-12 for public schools in school year 2009-10 |
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2014 GED Test Series Information - Training and Employment Notice (January 16, 2013)
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This notice provides the workforce development system with information related to the 2014 General Education Development (GED) Test series. It was was issued by the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration on January 16, 2013. |
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