“By engaging students in up to two years of demanding college-level work while still in high school, early college high schools are testing a powerful strategy for closing the achievement gap and “doubling the numbers� of low-income youth earning a college degree. This brief examines how the California Academy for Liberal Studies, and its college partner, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, are addressing a critical design challenge: how to structure and finance an integrated sequence of college study in which students earn up to two years of transferable college credit� (requires registration to view, free). |