SRI is investigating the range of high school career development opportunities in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The study will examine how career development opportunities are implemented, who has access to and participates in them, what students’ experiences are, and how participation is associated with students’ progression in school.
SRI is helping the Barr Foundation and the broader education community better understand how to design and implement innovative schools for students who are off track to graduate high school
SRI examined the impact of a program that combines strong academics with real-world experience. Its goal: help students build a foundation for success in college, careers—and life. In 2009, recognizing the challenges inherent for individual schools or pathways trying to redesign the high school experience, The James Irvine Foundation launched the California Linked Learning District … Continue reading Evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative
To understand the impact and implementation of the CCP project, CFA engaged SRI to conduct an independent evaluation of the project. This report presents findings from SRI’s comprehensive evaluation, offering insights into the project’s outcomes, the conditions that supported or hindered implementation, and key lessons to inform future efforts to strengthen career-connected learning pathways across … Continue reading Evaluation of the Career Connected Pathways Project | Final Report
SRI is excited to announce a new partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to examine career development opportunities (CDOs) in the district.
SRI evaluated the effectiveness of high schools that offer students the opportunity to simultaneously pursue a high school diploma and earn up to 2 years of college credits. SRI, in conjunction with the American Institutes for Research, conducted a multiyear evaluation of the Early College High School (ECS) initiative. ECSs are created through a partnership … Continue reading Evaluation of the Early College High School Initiative
In partnership with Achieving the Dream, SRI is studying how using OER materials can facilitate improved educational experiences for college students through easier access to learning materials and transformative teaching and learning practices.
In this brief, we provide a profile of each Beyond ENE grantee that describes its student population during the 2022–23 school year as well as select progress metrics. These profiles draw from school administrative data and student survey data. Project: Evaluation of the Engage New England Initiative Download: The Beyond Engage New England Initiative: 2022–23 … Continue reading The Beyond Engage New England Initiative: 2022-23 School Profiles
Los Angeles City College’s STEM Pathways Program supported success for students underrepresented in STEM disciplines. Launched in 2016, the STEM Pathways Program at Los Angeles City College aimed to increase low-income and Hispanic/Latinx students’ participation and success in STEM fields. The program included STEM tutoring, specialized counseling, faculty mentoring, math boot camps, undergraduate research experiences … Continue reading Evaluation of LA City College’s STEM Pathways Program
The Barr Foundation’s Engage New England (ENE) initiative was an effort to catalyze high school innovation by developing exemplary schools that support the success of students who are off track to graduate. Grounded in the tenets of positive youth development, the ENE initiative provided grants and technical assistance to support new or redesigned schools in … Continue reading Transforming High Schools to Serve Students Who Are Off Track to Graduate
This brief describes the approaches Engage New England (ENE) schools used to support academic case conferencing and their implementation of key practices.
This brief describes common facilitators and challenges experienced by Engage New England (ENE) grantees as they worked to further their instructional systems. It also provides some promising practices that grantees used to support these efforts or to address challenges.
This brief presents the lessons learned and common themes across Engage New England (ENE) grantees, as well as implications for planning and implementation that may be useful for subsequent cohorts of ENE grantees as they prepare to launch their programs or schools.
Although nationally Latinx students declare majors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at similar rates as White students, our postsecondary education systems lose Latinx students along the way, resulting in disproportionately fewer Latinx STEM majors and degree holders.
SRI Education is working to fill the gap in evidence on changes in instruction from the use of open educational resources (OER) in community colleges. Building on the prior study of the OER Degree Initiative, we are investigating how the use of OER can enable what are sometimes called “open educational practices” (OEP) and equity-focused instruction in community college courses.