Breaking Barriers

How P-Tech Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8077-6558-6
Verlag: Teachers College Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Breaking Barriers shows how to redesign high schools so that all students can move on to college and successful careers. In a negation of the American Dream, a child's zip code is currently a far better predictor of success than hard work, intelligence, or resilience. This book tells the story of a school model that focuses on equity and works to prove that all young people can achieve academic excellence given the right support. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) combines public high schools and community colleges in partnership with employers, providing both opportunity and support for all students. This innovative and effective approach eliminates barriers to replication by engaging all stakeholders. The first P-TECH, which opened in a low-income Brooklyn neighborhood, is now a model for school reform. Praised by President Obama and heads of nations, its story is told through the voices of students who have shattered the myths about which students can succeed. Book Features: - Describes a successful school reform model that is operating in 220 schools across 12 states and 14 countries.
- Demonstrates how engaging and involving all stakeholders in school reform creates partners instead of adversaries.
- Illustrates how success in a single school has become the linchpin behind a reform movement because the key barriers to replication were removed in its very design.
- Delves into thorny issues like the opportunity and achievement gaps, dismal college completion rates, college debt, income inequality, and the need for skilled, diverse STEM employees.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Litow, Stanley S

Kelley, Tina

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword Randi Weingarten
- Acknowledgments
- 1. What is P-TECH?
- P-TECH's Roots
- The Context of the Concerns
- A Sudden Green Light
- Laying the Groundwork
- Building More Partnerships
- Preliminary Results
- P-TECH and the Pandemic
- A Broader View of Reform
- 2. High Expectations
- Research on the Power of High Expectations
- Expectations across Race and Class
- How to Ensure High Expectations are Encouraged and Shared
- When Principals Aim High
- The Benefits of Dedicated Teachers
- Takeaways
- 3. Elevating Equity
- The Benefits of Same-Race Teachers
- The Shortage of Teachers of Color
- Rebuilding a Diverse Teaching Force (the next 8 fall under this)*
- Life after School
- P-TECH as a Step toward Equity
- Student Recruiting at P-TECH Schools
- No Barriers
- Teacher Recruiting at P-TECH
- P-TECH Teacher Retention
- Removing Roadblocks to College
- Tearing Down Walls around the Workplace
- Takeaways
- 4. Rigorous Coursework Designed With College and Career in Mind
- The Perils of Remedial College Work
- Other Opportunities for Advanced Work*
- Coursework Relevance
- Pedagogy at P-TECH
- Trying New Methods
- Making Lessons Relevant
- Project-Based Learning
- Know Thy Students
- Industry Challenges
- Seamless Transition to College
- Takeaways
- 5. Support for Learning
- Extended School Year
- Extended School Week or Day
- Tutoring
- *Monitoring Student Progress
- Comprehensive Counseling
- School Culture
- Moving on to College
- Parental Involvement
- Student Behavior
- Community Service
- Peer Support among Students
- Takeaways
- 6. Frequent Interactions with College and Business Partners
- *The Role of the Colleges
- *What Business Partners Do
- ShuDon's Story
- Joel's Story
- Reaping the Benefits
- Social Capital
- *Time to Hire Graduates
- When Collaborators Collaborate
- Takeaways
- 7. Conscientious Leadership
- School Leadership: Principals
- P-TECH's Founding Principal
- Leadership in Other P-TECH Principals
- Superintendents
- Colleges
- Moving Beyond the School Collaboration
- Beyond Cities
- Federal Leadership
- P-TECH around the World
- 8. Opening a School
- The Student
- The Superintendent
- The Principal
- Summer
- Autumn
- The Steering Committee
- Winter
- Results
- 9. Lessons for Broader Reform
- Overview of Education Reforms
- Another Way to Create Change
- Business Out of the Classroom?
- Highlights from the Collaborations
- Next Steps for Expansion
- Conclusion
- Afterword Rashid Ferrod Davis
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

<p><strong>Stanley </strong><strong>S. </strong><strong>Litow</strong> is visiting professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, a trustee of the State University of New York, president emeritus of the IBM Foundation, and a former deputy chancellor of schools for New York City. <strong>Tina Kelley</strong> is co-author of the bestseller <em>Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope </em>and a former <em>New York Times </em>reporter.</p>