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Multiple Pathways
Today’s high school students often attend schools where the programs and classes necessary for college, careers, and responsible participation in public life are not available to every student. Not only does this seriously limit the options of some students’ after high school, it also leads other students to simply opt of high school altogether. As a result, Multiple Pathways has emerged as an approach to high school education that offers students and their families choices among a variety of high school programs. Based on students’ interests and on the unique strengths and opportunities that exist in their communities, these program are intended to prepare students for both college and careers, as well as to centralize the importance of civic responsibility.
“Multiple Perspectives on Multiple Pathways” is a collection of fifteen essays written by distinguished California scholars. The papers in this collection explore the link between current educational structures, including Career and Technical Education and academic education, and inequity. Examining research that examines the intersection between California’s changing economy, its population diversity, its widening social and economic inequality, and its patterns of school failure across racial and ethnic communities, the authors put forward analyses of alternatives that can provide multiple pathways to high school graduation and postsecondary options that include both college and career.
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