Taking Stock of the California Linked Learning Initiative

A five-year evaluation of Linked Learning in nine California school districts shines the spotlight on student engagement, outcomes, and plans for the future. Taking Stock of the California Linked Learning Initiative report was supported by the James Irvine Foundation and produced by SRI International Center for Education Policy. The fifth in a series, this report, for the first time takes an in-depth look at the issue of student equity and access to pathways through an analysis of student enrollment patterns across pathway career themes and of pathway retention among student subgroup populations.

The California Linked Learning District Initiative launched in 2009 to help California school districts develop and implement plans for expanding the Linked Learning approach (formerly known as multiple pathways) in their high schools. This initiative is supporting nine districts to develop systems of Linked Learning pathways that offer students a full range of career pathway options.