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Dual credit and career/tech help raise graduation rates

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New data from the Minnesota Department of Education shows a side-by-side comparison of high school graduation rates for various student groups across Minnesota.  The chart below shows 4-year high school graduation rates overall for students, for those who took 2-3 career and technical courses, and those who took at least 1 concurrent enrollment or PSEO course. […]

Data shows that career and tech ed is a gap-closing strategy / by Marisa Gustafson

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This article originally appeared on TC Daily Planet here. By Marisa Gustafson, January 22, 2014 One of Minnesota’s best achievement gap reduction strategies is being woefully under-utilized. Recently, Michael Diedrich of MN2020 wrote about a school that was working to revamp their career and technical education (CTE) programs. Although CTE (think vo-tech) has a murky history, he correctly pointed […]

CSC guest blog post on Voices for Racial Justice (by Marisa Gustafson)

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We were very pleased to make a guest post on Organizing Apprenticeship Project’s blog, Voices for Racial Justice.  We wrote about using proven career/technical and Dual Credit programs as effective strategies for closing gaps between student groups.   Check out our post on Voices for Racial Justice, made possible by our friend and colleague Vina Kay: http://voicesforracialjustice.org/2013/11/14/lets-build-on-what-works-careertechnical-and-dual-credit-programs-help-close-graduation-gaps/ […]