Career Readiness

Race to the Top: Accelerating College and Career Readiness in States - Sustainability

Achieve prepared the "Race to the Top: Accelerating College and Career Readiness" guides to help state leaders take advantage of this exceptional competition. The guides look at RTTT through a college- and career-ready lens, and specifically the...

Race to the Top: Accelerating College and Career Readiness in States - P-20 Longitudinal Data

Achieve prepared the "Race to the Top: Accelerating College and Career Readiness" guides to help state leaders take advantage of this exceptional competition. The guides look at RTTT through a college- and career-ready lens, and specifically the...

Taking Root - Indiana's Lessons for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda

To give states the information they need to sustain hard-fought education reform effectively, Achieve, funded by the GE Foundation, conducted research on state education reforms that have been sustained successfully for over a decade or more. In...

Taking Root - Texas' Lessons for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda

To give states the information they need to sustain hard-fought education reform policy changes effectively, Achieve, funded by the GE Foundation, conducted research on state education reforms that have been sustained successfully for over a decade...
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Holding the Line: Maintaining College- and Career-Ready Graduation Requirements

This is the video of a plenary session that took place at the 2009 American Diploma Project Network Leadership Team Meeting on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. "Holding the Line: Maintaining College- and Career-Ready Graduation Requirements in the Face of...
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How to Ensure More Students Graduate College- and Career-Ready

This is the video of the morning plenary session at the 2009 American Diploma Project Network Leadership Team Meeting that took place on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. "Delivering the ADP Agenda: How to Ensure More Students Graduate College- and Career-...

Closing the Expectations Gap 2010 PowerPoint

Each year, on the anniversary of the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools, Achieve releases a 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers. Closing the Expectations Gap, 2010 is...
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Aligning the College Readiness and Completion Agendas

This plenary session took place at the ADP Leadership Team Meeting in Alexandria, Virginia on Sept. 1, 2010. Juliet García, Chancellor, University of Texas at Brownsville William Kirwan, Chancellor, University System of Maryland Jamie Merisotis,...
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Promoting College and Career Readiness in ESEA Reauthorization

This plenary session took place at the ADP Leadership Team Meeting in Alexandria, Virginia on Sept. 2, 2010. It featured: Michael Casserly, Executive Director, The Council of Great City Schools Kati Haycock, President, The Education Trust Carmel...

Key Steps to Building a Communications Strategy

This document seeks to lay out the key steps states should take as they develop or refine their own communications and outreach strategies, with a specific focus on strategies aligned to support the policies of the college- and career-ready agenda.

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