CCASN is based in a leading research university, and as such has a keen interest and extensive experience in research and evaluation. Its Principal Investigator directed the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Its Coordinator designed the state evaluation system for the California Partnership Academies (CPAs) and led this evaluation for many years. He also led the effort to establish the Career Academy National Standards of Practice. CCASN conducted much of the research on career academies that led to state and national interest in this approach.
CCASN continues to lead statewide analyses of the implementation and student performance findings of the CPAs. It has served as the outside evaluator for federal Small Learning Community grants in 30 high schools in 12 districts in five states. It has compiled a summary of all the leading studies on career academies. And it has worked as an evaluation advisor, designer, or collaborator on a host of high school reform projects.
Newest Addition: AB 3188 Factsheet 2018
- A Profile of the California Partnership Academies 2004-2005 2007
- A Profile of the California Partnership Academies, 2009-10 2011
- Can Combining Academic and Career-Technical Education Improve High School Outcomes in California? 2007
- Career Academies: An Overview 2010
- Career Academies and Urban Minority schooling: Forging Optimism Despite Limited Opportunity 2002
- Career Academies in 2049? 2010
- Career Academies: A Proven strategy to Prepare High School Students for College and Career 2010
- Comparing Students in Each California Partnership Academy with Non-Academy Students in the Same High School 2009-10 2012
- Costs of Multiple Pathway Programs 2010
- Coursework for College and Career Pathways: Dual Academic/CTE Courses 2014
- Evidence on Career Pathways and Linked Learning 2011
- Expanding Policy Options for Educating Teenagers 2009
- High School Career Academies: A 40-Year Proven Model for Improving College and Career Readiness 2009
- Innovative Approaches to California’s College & Career Pathway Teacher Shortages 2017
- Is There Solid Evidence of Positive Effects for High School Students 2004
- Learning by Doing Career Academies 2005
- Linked Learning, A Guide to Making High School Work 2013
- Longitudinal Description of Students in California Partnership Academies 2013
- Making It Real: How High Schools Can Be Held Accountable For Developing Student’s Career Readiness 2013
- Multiple Perspectives on Multiple Pathways; Preparing California’s Youth for College, Career and Civic Responsibility 2006
- National Standards of Practice for Career Academies 2013
- Pathways or Pipelines 2015
- Reforming High Schools: The Role for Career Academies 2004
- Research to Inform College and Career Pathways 2016
- Scope Knowledge Brief: The Linked Learning Advantage 2013
- Shift in Roles in Secondary Schools to Support Robust Career Pathways 2017
- Small Learning Communities: Lessons from the Field 2007
- Summary of Research on Benefits of High School Pathways That Include Academic Coursework Along with CTE and Other Features 2016
- System Alignment Through Participatory Action Research in a Health Pathway Community of Practice 2017
- The Secondary Student Experience Research Symposium: Report to the Field 2018
- Using Better Information to Help Reduce Inequality in College Access 2009
- What’s in a Pathway? 2014