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EPILive
A Presentation of the Educational Policy Institute
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• The College Ladder Linking Secondary and
  Postsecondary Education for All Students
• Friday, March 2, 2007
• Moderator Watson Scott Swail, Educational Policy
  Institute
• Guests Betsy Brand Jennifer Lerner, American
  Youth Policy Forum
• Daniel Voloch, Coordinator, College Now, Hostos
  Community College, Bronx, NY

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Betsy Brand

• Director, AYPF
• Former Assistant Secretary of Education
• Served under former Senator Dan Quayle
• Legislative Associate for the House Committee on
  Education and Labor from 1977 to 1983

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Jennifer Lerner

• Program Associate, American Youth Policy Forum
• Graduate of Teachers College

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Daniel Voloch

• Coordinator of College Now at Hostos Community
  College
• Served as the Director of the Quality of Life
  Program

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Definition

• Secondary-Postsecondary Learning Options (SPLOs)
  are schools and programs that link secondary
  education with two- and four-year institutions of
  higher education and allow high school students
  to participate in college-level courses for
  credit and not for credit.

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SPLO categories

• Dual Enrollment
• Advanced Placement
• Institution-specific dual enrollment programs
• Statewide dual enrollment programs
• Tech Prep
• Middle/Early College High Schools
• Programs serving Disadvantaged Youth
• For example, CUNY College Now

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Data Limitations

• Few third party evaluations
• More qualitative than quantitative
• Considered short-term outcomes (at high school
  graduation, after one semester of postsecondary
  education)
• Few follow participants through college
  graduation or into job market
• Difficulty accessing data from two unique systems
  (K-12 and postsecondary)

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Summary of Outcomesfrom 22 included SPLOs
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Highlights from Lessons Learned

• Funding
• Funding formulas must distribute dollars fairly,
  so that institutions are paid based on the amount
  of services they provide to students.

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Highlights from Lessons Learned

• Extra Supports
• For students to be successful, SPLOs need to
  provide appropriate experiences and supports to
  their students based on their individual needs.
• Most common extra supports
• Caring adult advisors
• Academic assistance and tutoring
• College success class
• Peer support network in safe environment

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Highlights from Lessons Learned

• Transferability of Credit
• Very little data is available on what courses
  transfer for credit or how students use credit
  earned from participation in a SPLO.
• Students often are unaware they are earning
  credit
• Credits are often not as portable as expected
  (for example, 4-year institutions often do not
  accept credits from 2-year institutions)
• Responsibility often falls to student to work out
  the credit transfer
• Solutions Articulation Agreements
• Common Course Numbering Systems

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Unanswered questions

• Course rigor Do SPLOs offer college-level or
  college-like courses?
• AYPFs proxies for determining course rigor
• program location
• teacher and faculty preparation
• prerequisites for participation
• program length

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The College Ladder

• The College Ladder Linking Secondary and
  Postsecondary Education for Success for All
  Students is available online at
• www.aypf.org/publications

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Daniel Voloch

• Coordinator of College Now at Hostos Community
  College
• Served as the Director of the Quality of Life
  Program

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CUNY Collaborative Programs

• College Now GEAR UP/Middle Grades Initiative
• Affiliated High Schools Early College Initiative
• CUNY Prep Research Evaluation
• Creative Arts Team Looking Both Ways

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Fundamental College Now Goals

• Improved high school graduation rates
• Better preparation for college
• Reduced need for remediation

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College Now by the Numbers

• College Now currently partners with 287 high
  schools.
• In 2001-2002, 31,189 students were enrolled in
  College Now, as compared to 52,309 in 2005-2006.
• In the fall of 2005, 46 of NYC public school
  students who entered CUNYs four-year schools had
  participated in College Now.
• One-year retention rates are higher for College
  Now students.

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College Now at Hostos Community College
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College Now at Hostos Community College

• 21 College Now partner high schools
• Graduation rates of high schools span from 44 to
  78.5
• Schools range from 165 1,233 students
• Varying student populations and needs

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College Now at Hostos Community College

• 2003 2004 261 registrations in college-credit
  courses
• 50.2 successful completion rate (spring 2004)
• 2004 2005 473 registrations in college-credit
  courses
• 70.1 successful completion rate (spring 2005)
• 2005 2006768 registrations in college-credit
  courses 80.3 successful completion rate (spring
  2006)

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2005-2006 Demographics

• Hostos College Now 2006 College Now Total
• Female 66.5 55
• Male 32.9 44
• Unknown 0.6 1
• Hispanic 53.5 18.5
• Black 28.8 22.5
• Asian/Pacific Islander 2.8 15.7
• White 0.8 18.9
• Other 6.8 6.7
• Unknown 7.3 17.7

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College Now at Hostos Community College

• Program Components
  (2005-2006 registrations)
• College Credit Courses 90.8
• Non-Credit Courses 9.2

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College Now at Hostos Community College

• New Initiatives
• College-credit courses in the early afternoon
• Young Mens Leadership Program
• Developmental Reading courses for English
  Language Learners
• (P)SAT Courses

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Hostos Community College College Now Summer
Program

• Bronx Civic Scholars Institute, a four-week
  program which offered
• A college-credit American Government course
  which had been redeveloped to focus on case
  studies
• A daily practicum
• An internship at a community-based organization
  that focused on youth activism
• Visit to City Hall, meeting with Council Member
  Robert Jackson, tour of the South Bronx with the
  director of the Bronx African-American History
  Project, presentation on environmental justice
  issues from Sustainable South Bronx

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College Now at Hostos Community College

• Developing Community Partnerships
• Liberty Partnership
• Bronx Council on the Arts
• Urban Word
• New Visions
• Latin American Writers Institute
• STEP/Proyecto Access
• Sistas and Brothas United (SBU)
• Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ)

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Next Week

• Next Steps for Affirmative Action
• Mr. Ward Connerly
• Founder Chairman, American Civil Rights
  Institute
• Arthur Coleman
• Partner, Holland Knight LLP, Washington, DC
• Friday, March 9, 1pm

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Two Weeks

• A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
• William G. Tierney
• University of Southern California
• Los Angeles, CA
• Friday, March 16, 1pm

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EPILive
A Presentation of the Educational Policy Institute