Multiple Pathways Series:
Multiple Pathways is an approach to high school education that has captured the imaginations of major philanthropy, school reformers, and a growing number of policymakers. Today’s high schools do not offer all students the programs and classes necessary to prepare them for college, career, and responsible participation in public life. The purpose of Multiple Pathways reform is to correct this failure.
Multiple Pathways would end the tired debate about whether high school students need more rigorous academics or a more relevant career-focused curriculum. Instead, Multiple Pathways offers students and their families choices among a variety of high school programs that provide both the academic and the career foundations students need for advanced learning, training, and responsible public participation. These choices are based on students’ interests and on the unique strengths and opportunities in their communities. Every pathway would prepare all students for both college and careers, and it would place civic responsibility at the core of its programs.
“Multiple Perspectives on Multiple Pathways” consist of a collection of fifteen essays written by distinguished California scholars. The papers in this collection provide multiple perspectives in their reviews, synthesis and interpretations of existing research on Multiple Pathways. They report research that examines the intersection between California’s changing economy, its population diversity, its widening social and economic inequality, and its patterns of school failure across racial and ethnic communities. They explore the link between current structures (structures that maintain a divide between Career and Technical Education and academic education) and inequity. They also provide analyses of alternatives that can provide multiple pathways to high school graduation and postsecondary options that include both college and career.
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The Multiple Perspectives on Multiple Pathways Series includes:
1. Overview: College Prep for All? Reinvigorated Career and Technical Education? Or Multiple Pathways to Both?
Jeannie Oakes and Marisa Saunders
University of California, Los Angeles
2. Multiple Pathways: High School Reform that Promises to Prepare All Students for College, Career, and Civic Responsibility
Jeannie Oakes and Marisa Saunders
University of California, Los Angeles
3. Multiple Pathways for Immigrant and English Learner Students
Patricia Gándara
University of California, Los Angeles
4. What Educational Resources Do Students Need
to Meet California's Educational Content Standards?
W. Norton Grubb
University of California, Berkeley
5. Constructing Multiple Pathways to College and Career in an Effectively Maintained Inequality Regime: Paradigmatic Questions and Provisional Replies
Samuel R. Lucas
University of California, Berkeley
6. Restructuring and Reculturing Schools to Provide Students with Multiple Pathways to College and Career
Hugh Mehan
University of California, San Diego
7. High School Student Employment and the Urban Spatial Structure
Paul Ong and Veronica Terriquez
University of California, Los Angeles
8. A State United or a State Divided: Can Multiple Pathways Bring Together Multiple Californias?
Manuel Pastor
University of California, Santa Cruz
9. Small Schools as Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation: Can they Balance the Individual and Collective Aims of Schooling?
Karen Hunter Quartz (UCLA) and Elliot Washor (The Big Picture Company)
10. Theme-Based, Small Learning Communities Increase Academic Achievement, Workforce Resiliency, and Lifelong Success for Students in a “Flat World”
David Rattray
President and Executive Director, UNITE-LA, Inc.
11. Multiple Pathways, Vocational Education and the “Future of Democracy”
John Rogers (UCLA), Joseph Kahne (Mills College), and Ellen Middaugh (UC Berkeley)
12. A Reflection on Career and Technical Education, Multiple Pathways, and the Academic-Vocational Divide
Mike Rose
University of California, Los Angeles
13. Combining Academic and Career-Technical Courses to Make College an Option for More Students: Evidence and Challenges
David Stern (UC Berkeley) and Roman Stearns (ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career)
14. Pipelines, Pathways, and Payoffs: Economic Challenges and Returns to Changing Demographics in California
Jon Stiles and Henry Brady
University of California, Berkeley
15. The Changing Workplace and Schooling: Implications for High School Reform
Michael A. Stoll
University of California, Los Angeles
16. Developing Multiple Curricular Pathways in California’s High Schools: Possible Opportunities for Postsecondary Involvement
Andrea Venezia
West Ed.