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College and Career Ready: Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School 1st Edition
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College and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success. The book is filled with detailed, practical guidelines and case descriptions of what the best high schools are doing.
- Includes clear guidelines for high school faculty to adapt their programs of instruction in the direction of enhanced college/career readiness
- Provides practical strategies for improving students' content knowledge and academic behaviors
- Offers examples of best practices and research-based recommendations for change
The book considers the impact of behavioral issues-such as time management and study habits-as well as academic skills on college readiness.
- ISBN-10111815567X
- ISBN-13978-1118155677
- Edition1st
- PublisherJossey-Bass
- Publication dateDecember 13, 2011
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 0.76 x 9.25 inches
- Print length336 pages
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"David Conley offers a profoundly insightful and clear blueprint for designing high schools that will prepare students for post-secondary success. Anyone interested in supporting and leading schoolsprincipals, superintendents, school leadership coacheswill benefit from College and Career Ready."Sue Fine, executive director, The Urban Assembly Schools Network
"College and Career Ready takes Conley's humanistic approach to high school improvement giant steps forward. A must-read for anyone serious about producing results with under-prepared, urban students." Nancy Hoffman, vice president, Jobs for the Future
"David Conley is a powerful and articulate voice on the critical subject of college and career readiness. His book serves as a substantive and practical guide, with both research and case studies, for those of us who are on the front lines of the effort to transform our schools and ready our students for the future." Jim Nelson, executive director, AVID Center
"This book is one-stop shopping for all crucial college and career readiness concepts and components. Complete with in-depth descriptions of numerous exemplary schools, College and Career Ready will be indispensable to policymakers, administrators, and teachers who seek to implement comprehensive college readiness initiatives in a variety of state and school contexts."Michael Kirst, professor emeritus, Stanford University
"At last, a compelling roadmap for preparing all of our high school students for postsecondary and workplace success."Uri Treisman, professor of mathematics and of public affairs, University of Texas at Austin
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Praise for College and Career Ready
"David Conley offers a profoundly insightful and clear blueprint for designing high schools that will prepare students for post-secondary success. Anyone interested in supporting and leading schools principals, superintendents, school leadership coaches will benefit from College and Career Ready." Sue Fine, executive director, The Urban Assembly Schools Network
"College and Career Ready takes Conley's humanistic approach to high school improvement giant steps forward. A must-read for anyone serious about producing results with under-prepared, urban students." Nancy Hoffman, vice president, Jobs for the Future
"David Conley is a powerful and articulate voice on the critical subject of college and career readiness. His book serves as a substantive and practical guide, with both research and case studies, for those of us who are on the front lines of the effort to transform our schools and ready our students for the future." Jim Nelson, executive director, AVID Center
"This book is one-stop shopping for all crucial college and career readiness concepts and components. Complete with in-depth descriptions of numerous exemplary schools, College and Career Ready will be indispensable to policymakers, administrators, and teachers who seek to implement comprehensive college readiness initiatives in a variety of state and school contexts." Michael Kirst, professor emeritus, Stanford University
"At last, a compelling roadmap for preparing all of our high school students for postsecondary and workplace success." Uri Treisman, professor of mathematics and of public affairs, University of Texas at Austin
About the Author
David T. Conley is professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at the University of Oregon; founder and director of the Center for Educational Policy Research at the University of Oregon; and founder and CEO of the Educational Policy Improvement Center in Eugene, Oregon. For more information, go to www.CollegeCareerReady.org or www.epiconline.org.
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- Publisher : Jossey-Bass
- Publication date : December 13, 2011
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 111815567X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1118155677
- Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 0.76 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,013,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #204 in Education Curriculum & Instruction
- #1,093 in Curricula (Books)
- #1,705 in Education Administration (Books)
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About the author

Dr. David T. Conley is the founder, chief executive officer, and chief strategy officer of EPIC. Conley also serves as President of CCR Consulting LLC, Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership, and founder and director of the Center for Educational Policy Research (CEPR) at the University of Oregon. Dr. Conley serves on numerous technical and advisory panels, consults with educational agencies nationally and internationally, and is a frequent speaker at national and regional meetings of education professionals and policy makers. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the topic of college and career readiness.
Between 1993 and 1999, Conley developed and implemented the nation's first proficiency-based college admission system, PASS, which was adopted by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education for use in the seven campus Oregon University System. PASS was subsequently field tested at 52 Oregon high schools and continues to be used by students as a means to demonstrate college readiness.
In 2003, Dr. Conley completed Standards for Success, a groundbreaking three-year research project to identify the knowledge and skills necessary for college readiness. This project, funded by the Washington, D.C.-based Association of American Universities (AAU) and The Pew Charitable Trusts, analyzed course content at a range of American research universities to develop the Knowledge and Skills for University Success standards. In 2005, Dr. Conley published his research from this project in College Knowledge: What It Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready.
Since 1996, Dr. Conley has worked with federal and state governments, national education organizations, and foundations to conduct research on a range of educational policy issues. He has published the results of this research and other studies in numerous journal articles, technical reports, conference papers, book chapters, and books, including Who Governs Our Schools?, which analyzes changes in educational policy and governance structures at the federal, state, and local levels, and, in 2005, College Knowledge, which summarizes the results from Standards for Success and describes how to design high schools in ways that lead to more students being truly ready for college. Dr. Conley's most recent book, Getting Ready for College, Careers, and Common Core: What Every Educator Needs to Know, was published in Fall 2013 and is available for order today. Written with all educators in mind, but with an emphasis on those at the secondary level, this important resource shows how to develop programs that truly prepare students for both the Common Core assessments and for college and career readiness.
Dr. Conley received a BA with honors in Social Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his master's degree in Social, Multicultural, and Bilingual Foundations of Education and his doctoral degree in Curriculum, Administration, and Supervision at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Before joining the faculty of the University of Oregon in 1989, he spent a total of 20 years in Colorado and California as a school-level and central office administrator in several districts, an executive in a state education department, and as a teacher in two public multicultural alternative schools.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2013Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseEasy to read. Lots of info to highlight for reference in the future. Use it with your high school seniors.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2010Format: HardcoverIn his newest book, David Conley's excellent research and deep thinking continue to enrich the conversation on creating college success. This book weaves together many of Conley's precepts and experience: the focus on developing cognitive strategies and imparting content knowledge to students; practical ideas that both parents and schools can implement to prepare students for college; and years of quantitative and qualitative research. This is a "must read" for all of us who are working to create educational equity.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2013Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseThis book has some good ideas, but if you think about college readiness and what it takes for students to be ready it is all pretty much common sense. He is just putting the thoughts together for you.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2012Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseI had to get this book for school although I didn't read the entire thing, the language was easy to understand and the author kept things interesting!
- Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2016Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseDoes not meet my needs