Based on its leadership in standards-based reform and its early release of cohort graduation rates, Massachusetts was selected to participate in Moving Forward: High Standards and High Graduation Rates, a joint project of Achieve, Inc., and Jobs for the Future and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The project centers on a policy analysis of what the state is doing and can do to support a dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates. (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,...