This survey updates the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and work, and finds that at least 48 states are now actively engaged in reform efforts of some kind. There's more momentum in the states now than at any time since education reform became a national priority with the release of A Nation at Risk in 1983. (April 2007)
Over the past five years, the phrase "college and career readiness" has been used often by state and local policymakers, education foundations and non-profits,...