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K-12 Partnership Report Newsletter
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For years, the Business/ Education Partnership Forum published. The K-12 Partnership Report. A monthly newsletter with case studies, news, and insights on building strong and sustainable community partnerships. In 2013, DeHavilland Associates teamed with Meeder Consulting to launch the National Center for College and Career Transitions ( NC3T. An advocacy group dedicated to advancing the idea of career and college pathways systems. This new group publishes the monthly.
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The Business Case/ROI
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Why do businesses get involved in public education - and what can education leaders do to increase business involvement, particularly when it comes to career and college preparedness? All too often, education leaders seek to engage business support based only on the idea that businesses have some unstated obligation to support the schools - that they do it just because. So what draws businesses to actually get involved in the schools? If you're just starting to think about the case to be made to business...
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About the Business/Education Partnership Forum
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About the Business/Education Partnership Forum. What is this site? The Business Education Partnership Forum is intented to be a resource for anyone involved in building successful partnerships between businesses and K-12 schools, from local initiatives to national programs. It offers news, information, and resources to help prospective partners learn about building successful business/education partnerships. Is the Business Education Partnership Forum a 501c3 nonprofit? Is there any charge to participate?
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Partnership Solutions
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Most business and education leaders are familiar with some of the most common partnerships such as career days, guest speakers, site visits and internships. But there is a much wider array of partnership models to be considered, including programs that serve students directly as well as those that support schools and staff, thereby improving the learning environment and quality of instruction.
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K-12 Partnership Report Newsletter
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In a partnership, the partners come to the table together; they decide on the outcomes they want to focus on; and they decide collaboratively how those desired outcomes will be accomplished. And note that the desired outcomes are joint outcomes: they include student outcomes, but they also include desired outcomes for the business and education partners as well. The following resources offer some insights into setting up and managing successful partnerships:. DeHavlland Associates; 2007.
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Where Things Stand in Career and College Preparation
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Career and College Preparedness: Where Things Stand Today. Over the past few decades, America has developed a college for all approach to K-12 education. Despite this, our college completion rates have remained static over the past 30 years, while other countries have surpassed us ( see OECD chart A1.1. Reflecting this college preparedness focus, CTE participation rates (as measured by students completing an occupational concentration) has declined from 23% in 1990 to 21% in 2005 ( NCES.
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Subscribe to Our Free E-Newsletter. For years, DeHavilland Associates published the. First as a paid newsletter than as a free e-newsletter. Now, in partnership with Meeder Consulting, DeHavilland has co-founded the National Center for College and Career Transitions, and publishes. Each issue of this free e-newsletter contains insights and news on the role of partnerships in building career and college pathways; you can sign up by going here. Other newsletters you may be interested in.
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The DeHavilland Blog: September 2005
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Friday, September 30, 2005. Video games as teaching tools. An article in eSchoolNews titled "$10B gaming field inspires new curricula" (link. Talks about the rise in college coursework dedicated to game design and technology. While the article focuses on new coursework at the college/university level, it is exciting to see an academic response to the emerging needs of industry. It also gives rise to two thoughts. Posted by Brett Pawlowski at 10:54 PM. Links to this post. Thursday, September 29, 2005.
