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Youth CareerConnect (YCC) program: Preparing students for both college and career

Youth CareerConnect (YCC) is a high school-based program that blends academic and career-focused learning and aims to prepare students for both college and careers. The program is designed to strengthen America's talent pipeline by enhancing students' high school experience to put them on a pathway to complete postsecondary education and occupational skills training, obtain industry-recognized credentials, and secure an unsubsidized job in middle-to high-skilled H-1B occupations and industries.

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Published: 2019
Non-Academic Area

Student Mentoring Program: Providing Mentoring to At-Risk Students in Grades 4-8

The Student Mentoring Program is a school-based effort that provides funding for grantees to develop programs to assist students who lack positive role models and are at risk of educational failure, dropping out, or involvement in criminal or delinquent activities. The program matches at-risk students with trained adult or peer (secondary school) mentors to form positive relationships through regularly scheduled academic, social and recreational activities. ED funding decisions give absolute priority to programs that address the academic and behavioral problems of students with the greatest need living in rural and/or high crime areas, in troubled home environments, and/or who attend schools with violence problems. The program focuses on students in grades 4 through 8. While the legislation does not limit funding solely to school-based efforts, it gives priority to school-based mentoring programs.

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Published: 2009
English Language Arts

Open Court Reading: Teaching Alphabetics, Print Knowledge, and Phonemic Awareness to Beginning Readers

Open Court Reading is a curriculum that includes textbooks, workbooks, decodable books, and anthologies, and is intended to target reading achievement and comprehension in elementary school students. The curriculum consists of three main components: (a) Preparing to Read, (b) Reading and Responding, and (c) Language Arts. The program is designed to be used for 2.5 hours per day with grades 1-2 and for 2 hours per day with grades 4-6. Teachers were given a teacher's edition of the curriculum that included scripted direct instruction lessons and diagnostic and assessment packages. The intervention was implemented from fall to spring during the 2005-06 school year.

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Published: 2014
English Language Arts Math Science & STEM

CORE Program: A Comprehensive, Systems-Based Approach to Enhance College and Career Readiness in Rural High Schools

CORE is a comprehensive, systems-based approach that consists of seven components designed to build school capacity to better prepare students for college and career by enhancing their 21 st century skills, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, technology skills, collaboration skills, and creativity. CORE integrates technology and active learning modules in schools by providing multi-disciplinary teams of teachers and administrators with professional development and support to improve college and career readiness and noncognitive skills outcomes among grade 10-12 students in primarily high need and rural high schools. CORE professional development courses began with the 2gno.me skills assessment during orientation, followed by access to an online learning experience based on the SmarterU learning management system. Professional development resources were available to participating school teams, providing teachers with access to online instructional support to integrate technology and new teaching methodologies in school classrooms that promote individualized student learning, and teacher collaboration through sharing learning objects, lesson plans, and teaching strategies. Through this grant, JSU

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Published: 2020
English Language Arts Science & STEM

Reading Apprenticeship: Improving Student Science Achievement and Grade Point Average

Reading Apprenticeship® is a program that targets improving student outcomes in literacy, science achievement, and grade point average. The program uses instructional strategies to help students build comprehension skills, overcome difficulties with reading, interact more deeply with text, gain interest in reading, and improve their confidence in reading. Teachers model comprehension strategies and help students practice these strategies, mentoring students in reasoning and problem-solving skills to handle more complex reading tasks. The program includes professional development for teachers, which can be delivered online or in-person, and provides teachers with a copy of the developer's e-book, Reading for Understanding.

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Published: 2023