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Member View: Easing the College Transition for First-Gen Students Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Admitted in August 2018. It’s being republished as part of NACAC’s Best of the Blog series. Heading off to college can be an anxiety-ridden pro…

"The Fab Lab is one way the Charleston County School District is trying to build career planning into curricula for children at earlier and earlier ages, a trend unfolding in school districts around the country. Having long focused on readying students for college, school systems are beefing up their career-and-technical programs amid a growing push to more closely align the skills students accumulate in school with workforce needs. Now, some school districts are pushing this job exploration into middle and even elementary school, convinced that helping students connect what they are learning to careers will not only deepen their engagement but also help them make more informed decisions about their educational paths."

What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school? The Charleston County School District is among school districts trying to build middle school career readiness curricula before students enter high school

"This phenomenon has grown so much it has a name: “summer swirl.” There’s been a steady increase in summer swirlers anxious to speed up their progress to graduation, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which tracks this. They are also more likely to graduate from their home institutions than their classmates who don’t take summer classes, the clearinghouse found."

College students are increasingly forgoing summers off to save money, stay on track Growing number of students have started to forgo long summer breaks to cut costs and stay on track to graduation by taking community college summer classes