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- Title
College Readiness, Alternative School Students, and Implications from Texas.
- Authors
Hemmer, Lynn M.; Shepperson, Tara L.
- Abstract
States require graduating high school students meet college and career ready standards (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009; Musoba, 2010). Many states, including Texas, have established histories of alternative education programs for students unsuited or unsuccessful in traditional schools. Alternative programs are generally exempt from demonstrating college readiness, but in Texas have been required to report scores on the same indicators since SY2007-08. This article reviews Texas data to ask whether college readiness indicators work for alternative school based on comparisons between regular and alternative school data. While more students graduate from alternative schools with diplomas beyond the minimum, they rarely participate in advanced coursework, or take college entrance exams, and of those who do, less than 10% pass. Only one third are deemed college ready by Texas standards, suggesting the remediation goals and limited accessibility to academically advanced coursework makes college readiness assessments incongruous for alternative schools as currently defined.
- Subjects
UNITED States; READINESS for school research; HIGH school students; EDUCATIONAL standards research; EDUCATIONAL standards; ALTERNATIVE education; ALTERNATIVE schools; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements
- Publication
JEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2012, p1
- ISSN
2158-9232
- Publication type
Article