Regional Education Partnerships

Bridging the Gaps through Cross-System Education Partnerships

by Thad Nodine | Aug 2019 | Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs

Bridging the Gap (BtG) supports successful student transitions from high school to postsecondary, via cross-system, education partnerships. With funding from The James Irvine Foundation, BtG partnerships focus on first-generation college students, students of color, and low-income students who face substantial barriers in meeting their educational goals. This series explores the experiences of two California partnerships that joined the Bridging the Gap initiative in 2016: one in Long Beach and the other in the Salinas Valley.

“Get Me from point A to Point B:” Student Perspectives on Barriers to Timely Graduation at the California State University

by Colleen Moore and Connie Tan | Feb 2018 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, K-12 Reform, Postsecondary Reform, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

Nearly all students enter the California State University system intending to graduate “on time,” and graduation rates are increasing systemwide. Currently, less than a quarter of incoming freshmen graduate within four years and a third of community college transfer students graduate in two years. This study investigates the personal and institutional obstacles that students experience as they navigate through college on the pathway to timely graduation.

Scaling Goodwill: The Challenges of Implementing Robust Education Data Sharing Through Regional Partnerships

by Colleen Moore and Kathy Reeves Bracco | Jan 2018 | Data, Postsecondary Reform, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This brief is the third in a four-part series examining California’s approach to gathering and sharing longitudinal data about students’ progress through the state’s education systems.

Gaps in Perspective: Who Should Be Responsible for Tracking Student Progress Across Education Institutions?

by Colleen Moore, Brock Grubb and Camille Esch | Nov 2016 | College and Career Readiness and Success, Data, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This brief is the first in a series that will explore California’s approach to tracking, sharing, and using longitudinal data about student progress throughout the state’s education systems.

How the EWD Program Aims to Meet Workforce Needs

by Su Jin Jez and Sara Adan | Apr 2016 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

After the California State Legislature reauthorized EWD in 2012, the CCCCO created a new structure for the program based on seven geographic regions. Each region selected five rapid-growth, high-demand industry/business sectors, and EWD services in each region were targeted to those sectors. This brief outlines perceived strengths and weaknesses of this restructured program and offers recommendations for improvement. The information is drawn from an evaluation of the EWD program, Aiming to Meet Workforce Needs: An Evaluation of the Economic and Workforce Development Program.

Co-Design, Co-Delivery, and Co-Validation: Creating High School and College Partnerships to Increase Postsecondary Success

by Joel Vargas and Andrea Venezia | Dec 2015 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs

Co-authored by Andrea Venezia and Joel Vargas at Jobs for the Future, is part of a series, “Ready or Not: It’s Time to Rethink the 12th Grade.” The introductory paper in the series suggests a “shared transition zone,” in which secondary and postsecondary education systems and institutions would collaborate in key ways to bridge existing gaps and substantially increase the percentage of youth prepared for college and careers. While high schools and colleges have their own distinct roles in educating students—and are trying to make improvements in their respective systems—their shared interest in student success comes closest to converging at the end of high school and the beginning of college. The aim of this paper is to frame how educators can build upon this momentum to increase collective responsibility and solutions across systems.

Organizing for Success: California’s Regional Education Partnerships

by Collen Moore, Andrea Venezia, Jodi Lewis and Bina Lefkovitz | Mar 2015 | Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs

This report examines 19 regional education partnerships in California that include representatives from among K-12 and postsecondary education and business and community organizations. The study reveals what 37 participants identified as critical components of their work, challenges they have encountered, and promising strategies they share to help inform the work of new and existing partnerships. This information is helpful as the state and philanthropic foundations continue to invest millions of dollars in regional efforts.

State Policy Leadership in Higher Education – Six Case Studies

by Nancy Shulock and Colleen Moore | Jul 2014 | College and Career Readiness and Success, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs

This report provide six mini-case studies of higher education policy reforms enacted in other states, exploring the important role that state policy leadership played in developing, promoting, and implementing these policies aimed at improving higher education outcomes, and discussing the relevance of each reform effort for California. This report follows two reports: an update of California higher education performance, Average Won’t Do, and A New Vision for California Higher Education, an effort to engage stakeholders around a vision more suited to today’s students and economic conditions than the 1960 Master Plan. Together, the reports underscore the urgency of efforts to improve leadership and policy for higher education in California, and offer ideas for how this might be accomplished.

Measuring Institutional Conditions that Support Student Success in the California Community Colleges

by Caroline West, Nancy Shulock and Colleen Moore | May 2012 | College and Career Readiness and Success, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This report, prepared by IHELP for the University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC/ACCORD), looks at the opportunities and challenges in measuring institutional conditions that support student success. The report draws from the literature and ongoing research to describe the significant challenges in identifying, defining and measuring indicators of supportive institutional conditions in the community colleges. It offers a list of possible indicators and existing sources of data that could be used as a “starting point” in defining a set that could fairly and accurately capture the conditions at a particular institution.

Career Opportunities: Career Technical Education and the College Completion Agenda – Part II: Inventory and Analysis of CTE Programs in the California Community Colleges

by Colleen More | Feb 2012 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, K-12 Reform, Postsecondary Reform, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This report is the second in the four-part series on career technical education in the California Community Colleges. It examines the full set of career-technical certificate and associate degree programs offered across the system as a basis for understanding how well the CTE programs are meeting students’ needs to identify, enroll in, and complete programs with real value in today’s labor market. In the report, researchers evaluate the findings against a set of criteria, based on a literature review, that characterize an effective CTE mission and identify key issues that will need to be addressed to increase the effectiveness of CTE.

Beyond the Rhetoric: Improving College Readiness Through Coherent State Policy

by Nancy Shulock | Jun 2010 | College and Career Readiness and Success, K-12 Reform, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

his policy brief, jointly produced by the Southern Regional Education Board and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, examines the college readiness problem and offers recommendations to help government and educational leaders strengthen their efforts to lessen the college readiness gap. IHELP Director Nancy Shulock participated in the workgroup that produced the report, which analyzes the causes of the college readiness gap and discusses how states could better address the problem.

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