Career Readiness

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Future Ready Student Voices [FULL VIDEO]

To capture student voices on what high expectations, college and career readiness, and their future mean to them, Achieve interviewed a number of high school students and recent high school graduates. Feel free to use this video in your own...

Common Core State Standards & Career and Technical Education: Bridging the Divide

With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by 46 states and the District of Columbia, there is a tremendous opportunity to rethink the role of literacy and mathematics not only within academic classes but also in CTE courses and...

Best of Both Worlds: How Massachusetts Vocational Schools are Preparing Students for College and Careers

“Best of Both Worlds: How Massachusetts Vocational Schools are Preparing Students for College and Careers,” highlights the state’s policies that promote strong programming. Massachusetts encourages the completion of MassCore, the state’s college-...
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The Economic Case for College and Career Readiness

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...

Achieve Webinar: Closing the Expectations Gap 2014

This webinar PowerPoint was published January 28, 2015. Achieve's ninth annual " Closing the Expectations Gap " report details states’ progress in adopting and implementing a coherent set of reinforcing policies that will prepare all students for...

Rising to the Challenge Survey II PowerPoint

Download the Rising to the Challenge PowerPoint here . It is also available as a printer-friendly PDF .

Rising to the Challenge Survey, Part Two: Employers and College Faculty

The second phase of a new national survey released by Achieve — Rising to the Challenge: Views on High School Graduates’ Preparedness for College and Careers — shows that 78% of college faculty and 62% of employers believe that public high schools...

Rising to the Challenge Survey, Part Three: Parents

A new national survey released by Achieve — Rising to the Challenge: Are Recent High School Graduates Prepared for College and Work — shows that better communication between high schools and parents is needed to address the disconnect between...

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