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GearUP: Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs

GearUP is a multi-year federal education grant with two primary purposes:

1. To give more students (especially low-income students) the skills, encouragement, and preparation needed to pursue postsecondary education; and

2. To contribute to the reform and improvement of schools.

What is the need?

America cannot afford to waste the talents of any of its young people. Half of low-income students with average test scores and one-third of middle income students with average test scores do not go to college. Even high achieving
students from low-income families are significantly less likely to attend than high-achieving students from higher incomes families. Yet in the twenty-first century, two to four years of college will be more essential than ever before. GearUP is designed to enable more young Americans to stay in school, study hard, and take the right courses to go to college.

GearUP Features

• Early intervention for students (must begin in middle school)
• Parental Involvement
• Flexibility
• Evaluation
• Whole Cohort Approach (entire grade level strategies)
• Partnership Building (requires LEA/College partnership plus two community partners
• Collaboration and Articulation

GearUP Services

GearUP Goals

GearUP Elective Grade 9

GearUP Elective Grade 10

GearUp Elective Grade 11

GearUp Family Meetings