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“Career Choices received a Promising Intervention Award from the U.S. Department of Education in recognition of its effectiveness in reducing dropout rates and supporting higher achievement in reading and math.”

Association for Career and Technical Education’s
Techniques Magazine

THE AWARDS

Career Choices was the freshman course text used by Santa Barbara City College’s (SBCC) Dual Enrollment Get Focused...Stay Focused!® program. This program contributed to SBCC’s Aspen Institute award in 2013 as the #1 Community College in the United States.

In 2015, the United States Congress awarded Career Choices author Mindy Bingham a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Innovatives Approaches to Curricula.

THE NUMBERS

Over two million students have taken a freshman course using books from the Career Choices series. Today, over 450 high schools and colleges in California alone use the Career Choices series in their Get Focused...Stay Focused!® and Guided Pathways programs.

THE RESULTS

You will greatly increase the number of students who are college and career ready. For instance, Carpinteria High School increased the number of graduates who met the requirements for admission to the University of California from 24% to 47%.

"We have seen a significant increase in the number of students taking AP courses, and I think there’s more focus academically across our campus."

Gerardo Cornejo, Principal
Carpinteria High Schoo

"Giving [students] this direction is going to help with everything you can imagine in your school...whether it’s discipline...or if it’s your dropout rate or your test scores. It will help across the board."

Rhett Carter, Principal
Orcutt Academy High School

"I think the number one reason that we do this program is because all evidence that we have to this point demonstrates that this has a positive effect on the lives of young people in planning ahead, beyond just what they are going to do in a public school setting, but they are also planning for whatever their life career is going to be."

Dr. Dan Mielke, Executive Director of Eastern Promise
Eastern Oregon University