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Parents and students can choose from a wide variety of sources that provide school, curriculum, college-planning, and job search resources.

Middle Schools

High Schools

  • CHOICES - Iowa's high school planning and decision-making tool.
  • Iowa Online AP Academy. The Iowa Online Advanced Placement Academy (IOAPA) provides Advanced Placement (AP) courses to high school students across the State of Iowa
  • Iowa Learning Online. Iowa Learning Online is designed to help local Iowa school districts expand learning opportunities for their high school students through courses delivered "at a distance" using technologies such as the Internet and interactive video classrooms connected to the Iowa Communications Network (ICN). Students enroll in Iowa Learning Online courses through their local school district.
College Planning
  • CHOICES - Iowa's career information and decision-making tool.
  • Building Your Future: Preparing for academic success at Iowa's public universities
  • Understanding University Success describes foundational skills and content standards (elsewhere referred to as Knowledge and Skills for University Success) in English, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, second languages and the arts. The 80-page booklet addresses each discipline in a separate chapter. Each chapter comprises two sections: foundations and standards. The foundations section describes the skills, behaviors and attitudes expected of incoming students. The standards section lists the content knowledge that helps maximize the probability of success in entry-level university courses
  • Your choices for life after high school.
  • What jobs are popular and how much do they pay?

Career Planning

 




Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 March 2007 )