College Readiness for All : What is It and How Do We Get It ?

1. Kent Pekel College Readiness Consortium August 11, 2009 College Readiness for All: What is It and How Do We Get It?

2. What We’ll Talk About This Morning • Why should college readiness for all be the mission of secondary schools? • What constitutes college readiness? • What do we know about enhancing readiness?

3. Let’s Start With Some History: Source: Claudia Goldin, “The Human Capital Century: Has U.S. leadership come to an end?”, Education Next, Winter, 2003 (vol. 3, no. 1).

4. It was a Social Movement “The rise of the High School is undoubtedly the newest and most striking of recent educational movements….The idea appeals to the people, and they respond to it with a promptness and generosity.” -- California Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1910 Source: Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology, 2008, p. 195

5. High School Completion Rates and RankingsApproximated by percentage of persons with high school or equivalent qualfications in the age groups 55-64, 45-55, 45-44 und 25-34 years % 1 13 1 27 1. ExcludingISCED 3C short programmes 2. Year of reference 2004 3. IncludingsomeISCED 3C short programmes 3. Year of reference 2003.

6. If we don’t change direction…We’re going to get where we’re going! Source: 2006 OECD Education at a Glance, 2004 Data

7. All This Stuff Really Matters to Individuals

8. And So Today There’s a New Social Movement Taking Shape It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make (the educational) system work. But it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it. And so tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be community college or a four-year school; vocational training or an apprenticeship. But whatever the training may be, every American will need to get more than a high school diploma. And dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country – and this country needs and values the talents of every American. That is why we will provide the support necessary for you to complete college and meet a new goal: by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. -- President Obama, Address to Congress, February 24, 2009

9. Students know they should go,But too few finish the journey Source: Education Week

10. A Key Question: Is Minnesota an exception to or example of national trends?

11. A Key Question: Are we really Lake Wobegon?

12. So let’s take a closer look at Minnesota

13. We Have Readiness Gap % in MN Scoring Ready or Above on ACT Source: Minnesota Office of Higher Education, Measuring Up 2008

14. Minnesota’s Future Source: State Demographer using MN Dept. of Education data, August 2008

15. Some More Local Glimpses of the Gaps

16. Survey Data on 4,000 Twin Cities Students • 97% say they expect to attend college • 97% say their families expect them to attend BUT… • 75% say they don’t check homework for accuracy • 67% say they don’t give up socializing for school work Source: Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, U of M, 2009

17. Asking for Help: Whose Job Is It Anyway? • 41% of students say they don’t ask for help when they don’t understand something BUT… • 87.4% of staff in those students’ schools said that when students struggle with schoolwork, it is their responsibility to ask for help

18. What We’ll Talk About This Morning • Why should college readiness for all be the mission of secondary schools? • What constitutes college readiness? • What do we know about enhancing readiness?

19. A Good National Resource: David Conley Educational Policy Improvement Center www.epiconline.org

20. Cognitive Strategies • Analytic reasoning • Problem solving • Inquisitiveness • Precision • Interpretation • Evaluating claims Source: David T. Conley, Redefining College Readiness, Educational Policy and Improvement Center, 2007

21. Content Knowledge • Writing skills • Algebraic concepts • Key foundational content and “big ideas” from core subjects Source: David T. Conley, Redefining College Readiness, Educational Policy and Improvement Center, 2007

22. Academic Behaviors (self-management) • Persistence • Time management • Study group use • Awareness of performance Source: David T. Conley, Redefining College Readiness, Educational Policy and Improvement Center, 2007

23. Contextual Skills and Awareness(College Knowledge) • Admissions requirements • Cost of college • Purpose and opportunities of college • Types of colleges • College culture • Interactions with professors Source: David T. Conley, Redefining College Readiness, Educational Policy and Improvement Center, 2007

24. A good Minnesota Resource: www.mnp16.9rg

25. What We’ll Talk About This Morning • Why should college readiness for all be the mission of secondary schools? • What constitutes college readiness? • What do we know about enhancing readiness?

26. The Minnesota Principals Academy School-wide Strategy

27. The Ramp-Up to Readiness School-wide Strategy

28. The Ramp-Up Process in Brief

29. Intelligence Comes from Effort Illustration: http://www.streeteditors.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/brain.gif

30. A Growth Mindset is Critical Illustration: http://lyles.csufresno.edu/eimages/2008/0709-growth.jpg

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33. An Early Sign of Progress “Before having guest speakers come to tell us about college, I thought that school was just a place to hang out in. Now I take that back. School is more than you expect when you are trying to reach for your goals.” -- Junior High Student, Saint Paul

34. What We’ll Talk About This Morning • Why should college readiness for all be the mission of secondary schools? • What constitutes college readiness? • What do we know about enhancing readiness?

35. College Readiness for all is a “Man on the Moon” Goal

36. Thanks and Stay Tuned…