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1 Mar 2017
Report

Impacts of Ramp-Up to Readiness™ After One Year of Implementation

Jim Lindsay, Elisabeth Davis, Jennifer Stephan, and Amy Proger

College education is fundamental to students’ upward mobility, states’ economic growth, and the country’s economic competitiveness. Policymakers are placing greater emphasis on motivating high school students to attend college and on ensuring that students have the skills needed to succeed in college.

To better enable middle and high schools to increase college participation and success rates among their students, the University of Minnesota’s College Readiness Consortium developed Ramp-Up to Readiness™ (Ramp-Up), a schoolwide advisory program to increase students’ likelihood of college enrollment and completion by enhancing five dimensions of college readiness (academic, admissions, career, financial, and personal–social) among middle school and high school students.

This report describes a study of the impacts of the Ramp-Up program after one year of implementation and provides information on how Ramp-Up differs from college-related supports in other schools and the degree to which Ramp-Up has been implemented with fidelity.The study also addressed questions about whether the types of college-readiness supports offered by Ramp-Up schools differed from those offered by comparison schools, whether staff in Ramp-Up schools engaged in more college-oriented activity, and whether Ramp-Up schools in 2014/15 were able to implement the program adequately by consortium standards.

Impacts of Ramp-Up to Readiness™ After One Year of Implementation

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College and Career Readiness and Success Center

The College & Career Readiness & Success Center (CCRS Center) provides technical assistance support to states focused on ensuring all students graduate high school ready for college and career success. The mission of the Center is to build the capacity of states to effectively implement college and career ready initiatives such as career and technical education, work-based learning, career pathways, employability skills, and competency-based education.

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Guide

College- and Career-Readiness Standards and Assessment Resource List

The Southeast Comprehensive Center publishes this biannual list of resources that focus on college- and career-readiness standards and assessment. It includes materials from the federal content centers, comprehensive centers, and regional educational laboratories, as well as other organizations with expertise in education policy, research, and technical assistance.
Topic: 
Education, College and Career Readiness

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  • Predicting Early College Success for Indiana’s High School Class of 2014
  • Who Will Succeed and Who Will Struggle? Predicting Early College Success with Indiana’s Student Information System
  • Characteristics and Postsecondary Pathways of Students Who Participate in Acceleration Programs in Minnesota
  • AIR Researchers to Present at Biannual Society for Research on Education Effectiveness (SREE) Conference
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Elisabeth Davis

Senior Researcher

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College and Career Readiness

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Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest (REL Midwest)

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