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Presentations and Readings

Presentations

• Text of Commissioner's keynote address

Pre-Readings

General Background

• Letter from the Commissioner with two selected readings (.PDF)

Working Session 1. Setting State Goals and Strategies to Improve Graduation and Student Success Rates

• Charge to the Working Group (.PDF)
• Membership of the Working Group (.PDF)
• Reference list of background readings (.PDF)

Working Session 2. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment in an Era of Accountability

• Working Session Agenda (.PDF)
• Letter to Working Group members from Commissioner Freeland sent on December 23, 2009 (.PDF)
  
• Membership of the Working Group (.PDF)

Working Session 3. Quantifying Achievement: Identifying Practical Markers of Success

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Working Session 4. Resetting the Benchmark: Amplifying Workforce Education Outcomes Through Regional and Statewide Collaboration

• Massachusetts’ Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs: Meeting the Demands of a 21st-Century Economy (.PDF)

Working Session 5. College Participation: Where does Massachusetts stand now? Where do we appear to be headed in the future?

• High Schools As Launch Pads: How College-Going Culture Improves Graduation Rates in Low-Income High Schools (.PDF)
• Promise Lost: College-Qualified Students Who Don’t Enroll in College (.PDF)
  
• A Portrait of Low-Income Young Adults in Education (.PDF)
• Beyond Financial Aid: 2010 guide to extra help for low-income adult students (.PDF)