Examines the progress that has been made at five small schools across the U.S. that are representative of a growing network of more focused, academically rigorous high schools being developed to help students succeed in both high school and college.

What do adults need in order to succeed in postsecondary education and training? That is the question facing Ohio, where 45% of adults ages 25-54 (2.1 million) have no postsecondary education, and employers have a growing demand for a skilled workforce. The Ohio General Assembly sought to address this pressing issue by passing legislation instructing the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) and the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) to develop a statewide system of "stackable" certificates capable of engaging lowskilled adults in college.

The state interagency team charged with designing stackable certificates asked Columbus State Community College (CSCC) to facilitate the design process. CSCC engaged Community Research Partners (CRP), a nonprofit research and workforce policy center, to conduct national benchmarking in search of other stackable certificate type programming. Columbus State contributed to the research by conducting stakeholder focus groups. This information is contained in another report.

Student mobility is the phenomenon of students in grades K-12 changing schools, both during the school year and in the summer, for reasons other than customary promotion from elementary school to middle school or middle school to high school. Student mobility is an important research topic because of: 1) the current education policy environment, with its focus on school choice; 2) the impact of student mobility on school building and school district performance; 3) the relationship of mobility and at-risk children and their families; and 4) the impact of highly mobile populations on the quality of neighborhoods and communities.

In May 2002, The Columbus Foundation commissioned research by Community Research Partners (CRP) to study the causes, patterns and impact of high student mobility in the Linden-McKinley feeder pattern of the Columbus Public Schools (CPS) and to recommend both school and community strategies to address mobility. CRP is a non-profit research and evaluation organization, and a partnership of the City of Columbus, United Way of Central Ohio and the John Glenn Institute at The Ohio State University.

Student mobility is the phenomenon of students in grades K-12 changing schools, both during the school year and in the summer, for reasons other than customary promotion from elementary school to middle school or middle school to high school. Student mobility is an important research topic because of: 1) the current education policy environment, with its focus on school choice; 2) the impact of student mobility on school building and school district performance; 3) the relationship of mobility and at-risk children and their families; and 4) the impact of highly mobile populations on the quality of neighborhoods and communities.

In May 2002, The Columbus Foundation commissioned research by Community Research Partners (CRP) to study the causes, patterns and impact of high student mobility in the Linden-McKinley feeder pattern of the Columbus Public Schools (CPS) and to recommend both school and community strategies to address mobility. CRP is a non-profit research and evaluation organization, and a partnership of the City of Columbus, United Way of Central Ohio and the John Glenn Institute at The Ohio State University.