Educators from across the United States recently visited Antioch High School’s Linked Learning Pathways to gain information about creating similar programs in their schools. About 80 participants ...

Linked learning high school programs hold promise in boosting student engagement and lead to “moderately greater” success in school, but translate to little improvement on standardized tests and ...

When she was 6 years old, Lily Saelee's grandfather died from cancer. Ever since, Lily has been pursuing her aspiration of a career in health care, and specifically as a cancer care specialist. "My ...

Denise Vela never thought she’d be teaching high school English quite like this, and certainly never as part of an engineering program. Vela is earning her single-subject teaching credential this year ...

To the national debate about whether students should pursue career and technical education or college preparation, a California program wants to add an emphatic declaration: Yes. The refusal to choose ...

Under the watchful eye of Marin County prosecutor Otis Bruce, Jr., De Anza High School senior Angelina Quilic, 18, stepped confidently to the podium in her law academy class and fired questions at her ...

Linked Learning offers a promising systemic approach to high school reform that is designed to address challenges facing underserved students who have been ill prepared for college and career.

Expanded learning time doesn’t always involve lengthening the school day or year. Some California high schools are using creative scheduling to restructure the school day to make room for ...

Linked Learning incorporates four main elements, delivered through “pathways” based on one of California’s 15 major industry sectors, such as health sciences, IT, or manufacturing. The pathways are ...

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 1/28/2015, page A4) Because of an editing error, a story on Tuesday’s front page about so-called “linked learning academies” omitted the first name and title of De ...