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Counselor's Packet (417kb .zip)
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Superintendent's Packet (3.32MB .zip)
Student Contract (125kb PDF)
Arizona Academic Scholars Overview PP Presentation (2MB MS PowerPoint)
Educators
"85% of projected new jobs will require postsecondary education and work experience suggesting that high school graduates need to be both college and career bound."
Source: Education to Work: Is Arizona Prepared? The Alignment Project Report (p. 5)
Submitted to the Arizona P-20 Council on February 14, 2006
Send the message that a passing grade in a tough course is more advantageous than an "A" in an easy course.
  • Describe why Arizona Academic Scholars Course of Study is successful
  • Encourage students to become Arizona Academic Scholars by following the Scholars Course of Study
  • Keep Arizona Academic Scholars in the program with the right incentives
  • Celebrate the success of Senior Arizona Academic Scholars through useful recognition
Find out now how to bring Arizona Academic Scholars to your students.
Postsecondary Achievement
The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion from High School Through College (U.S. Department of Education).

The Toolbox Revisited was designed as a replication of a noted previous study published by the U.S. Department of Education, Answers in the Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, and Bachelor's Degree Attainment (1999), hereinafter referred to as "the original Tool Box," which based its analysis on a national cohort of high school students who were scheduled to graduate in 1982, and who were followed through 1993. The question naturally arose as to whether the hypotheses and analyses based on that cohort's history would hold up in the story of the slightly overlapping 1992–2000 period.

http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/toolboxrevisit/index.html
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State Scholars Initiative logoPR/Award (No. V051U020001)
The work reported herein was supported under the Center for State Scholars Program, PR/Award (No. V051U02001) as administered by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education. However, the contents do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education or the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.