K-12 and postsecondary education in the United States operate in fundamentally different worlds with separate essential structures while students flow across the divide¶

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Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2029: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q1 i? K-12 and postsecondary education keep governance, funding, accountability and assessment, and pedagogy separate even though large numbers of students regularly flow across the system divide. → Kirst 2024

Evidence¶

Kirst 2024¶

Kirst, M. W. (2024). Standards-based education reforms: Looking back to look forward. Learning Policy Institute. https://doi.org/10.54300/647.623

q1 · i? · review · r2

A descriptive claim from the Executive Summary, part of the paper's argument that K-12 schools must bridge postsecondary boundaries and integrate career/technical education and whole child education. No quantitative evidence is reported for it.

"k–12 and postsecondary education operate in fundamentally different worlds in the United States. Essential structures—governance, funding, accountability and assessment, and pedagogy—are kept separate, while large numbers of students regularly flow across the system divide."

Discussion¶

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