SXSW EDU 2025
Classrooms to Careers: Navigating Life After High School
Description:
The national conversation around postsecondary success has broadened to include career pathways such as job training and apprenticeship programs. But with many people questioning the value of college, has the pendulum swung too far, too fast? How can we better support students and families to navigate options, especially when there is inadequate transparency around completion and job-placement rates for CTE programs? What investments and partnerships are needed to ensure that all students have access to programs that maximize opportunities after high school and for the rest of their lives?
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Takeaways
- Dispel myths around college and career paths, exploring how schools can better prepare all students to achieve financial freedom and fulfilling lives.
- Discuss how to better counsel students and families to navigate options and select programs where students are supported to persist and graduate.
- Identify investments, partnerships, and policy changes needed to strengthen the postsecondary landscape and expand access to high-quality options.
Speakers
- Shavar Jeffries, CEO, KIPP Foundation
- Keri Rodrigues, Co-founder, Founding President, National Parents Union
- Farhad Asghar, Program Officer, Pathways to Postsecondary Success, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Organizer
Debra Wexler, Senior Director, Media & External Relations, KIPP Foundation
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