Career Readiness

Audience Mapping: The Why, How and What to Look For

January 1, 2011
A strategic communications plan should always include an assessment that identifies your key audiences and gauges their awareness of and support for your reform efforts. This piece is essential for your college- and career-ready communications and...

College- and Career-Ready Communications & Outreach Plan Template

This communications and outreach plan template aims to lay out the major issues for consideration in the planning of a communications strategy. You may find all of it useful – or only certain elements – and it was designed to be used flexibly, so...

Math at Work - Construction

February 20, 2012
Within the construction industry, there are a variety of entry-level jobs that pay well and provide opportunities for advancement — jobs for high school graduates with postsecondary training or education but less than a four-year college degree...

Math at Work - Civil Engineering

February 20, 2012
Within the civil engineering industry, there are a variety of entry-level jobs that pay well and provide opportunities for advancement — jobs for high school graduates with postsecondary training or education but less than a four-year college degree...
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The Economic Case for College and Career Readiness

September 8, 2011
This session includes 2011 data from Anthony Carnevale’s recent work illustrating labor market projections and disconnect between education and skills levels of current workers and market needs as well as reaction from the business and higher...
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Defining Career Readiness

September 8, 2011
States pursuing the college- and career-ready agenda have often struggled to find concrete ways to improve students' readiness for the workforce, given the wide-ranging set of possible career pathways open to students. During this session, state...
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Opening Session: Supporting the Climb to Higher Expectations

September 8, 2011
Michael Cohen, President, Achieve, launched the ADP Network Leadership Team Meeting by reflecting on the remarkable success of ADP states over the last six years and the significant opportunities to accelerate that success moving forward. The annual...
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The Next Horizon of the College and Career-ready Policy Agenda

September 8, 2011
States across the country have made significant progress adopting and implementing key college- and career-ready reforms designed to prepare students for success after high school in postsecondary education and the workforce. During this plenary...

Closing the Expectations Gap 2011 PowerPoint

February 3, 2011
Each year, 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, 2011 is the sixth annual report in this series. The report details state progress...

"Do's and Don'ts" for Advocating College and Career Readiness

January 1, 2011
This document provides and overview of "Do's and Don'ts" for Advocating College and Career Readiness.

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