From cbrown at osrhe.edu Wed May 27 12:54:42 2009 From: cbrown at osrhe.edu (Brown, Cynthia) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:54:42 -0500 Subject: [Okepas] EXPLORE parent mailing Message-ID: Dear Counselor, In the next week, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education will be sending out a mailing to all of the parents whose child took the EXPLORE test this year. The mailing will include three pieces: a letter from Chancellor Glen Johnson, a Guide to Understanding the EXPLORE Score Report and a sample of the EXPLORE Score Report. The purpose of the mailing is to encourage parents to sit down with their child and go over their child's EXPLORE test scores and then start making a plan for college. We know that school is out for most students so if you haven't given the students their Score Report, please send it to them so they have it when they receive the mailing. Attached is the letter and Guide to Understanding the EXPLORE Score Report we are mailing so you know what the parents will be receiving from us. This will be the first of four mailings we will be sending to this group of parents over the next two years to help them and their child prepare for the PLAN test in the 10th grade and the ACT in the 11th and 12th grades. The mailings are paid for from the College Access Challenge grant the State Regents received from the U.S. Department of Education in 2008 to expand current initiatives aimed at increasing the number of students who are enrolled and retained and complete degrees in higher education. Please feel free to contact us for more information or if you have any questions. Thanks, Cindy Brown Cynthia Brown, Ed.D. Director of Student Preparation Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 405-225-9156 "What if we had fail-safe schools that treated the failure of a single child as equally tragic as a nuclear meltdown, chemical spill, or an airplane crash?" "Three Musts for Bolstering Student Achievement" by Vicki Urquhart in Changing Schools, Summer 2008 (Vol. 58, p. 1-2) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20090527/79541737/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Letter-FINAL.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 45799 bytes Desc: Letter-FINAL.pdf Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20090527/79541737/attachment-0002.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: EPAS_MailingInsert-FINAL.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 568624 bytes Desc: EPAS_MailingInsert-FINAL.pdf Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20090527/79541737/attachment-0003.obj