College on Campus: How OUSD students are using Dual Enrollment to get a jump on college

"Dual Enrollment is a post-secondary accelerant..."For a long time, if you were doing college-level work in high school, this meant taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes and then cramming for their multiple-choice centric exams at the end of the year, hoping you'd get a 4 or a 5 to earn credit. Today in Oakland Unified, college-level access means taking actual college classes without leaving campus. it's called Dual Enrollment, and it's an ever-growing program wherein more and more high schoolers are earning college credit and high school credit and college exposure and 6-point As and deepening their Linked Learning Pathway experiences. That's a lot. Like almost too good to be true. But it's not. It's real. Meantioned in this episode:Dual Enrollment in OUSDHigh School Isn't What You Remember: our episode on Linked LearningMeasure N/ Measure H: the local parcel taxes that helped support Linked Learning Check out McClymonds and Skyline High SchoolsGet GROW WITH US Gear: Impress the public school afficionados with your hoodies and T-shirts demonstrating your level of local education knowledge. ⁠⁠Right here!