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Working Across the Segments: High Schools and the College Completion Agenda
Author(s) -
Valdez Shelly,
Marshall David
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.20080
Subject(s) - curriculum , learning standards , academic standards , mathematics education , silver bullet , open enrollment , higher education , pedagogy , political science , sociology , public relations , psychology , anthropology , law
Content standards have been identified in America as a solution to the declining rate of student success in the public education system. But content standards are not a “silver bullet,” for a number of reasons. This chapter presents an intersegmental approach to vertical curriculum alignment that returns questions of student readiness to the shared experience of educators and students.