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College and Career Readiness


College Readiness

PUBLICATIONS
Beyond the Rhetoric: Improving College Readiness Through Coherent State Policy

 State College and Career Readiness Initiative Final Progress Reports

 State College and Career Readiness Initiative Statewide Transitional Courses for College Readiness

 Teacher Development to Increase College and Career Readiness-Guidelines and Promising Practices for States

FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Cheryl Blanco
Vice President, Special Projects
(404) 875-9211
Megan Root
Policy Associate, President's Office
(404) 962-9639

Strengthening Statewide
College and Career Readiness Initiative

Today's workplace requires most Americans to have some form of education beyond high school. Yet most high school students are not graduating well-prepared for college or career training.

SREB is tackling this challenge head-on. Based on its experience and research, SREB has developed and refined a model college- and career-readiness agenda that defines the key steps each state can take to improve students' readiness statewide.

With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, SREB is working with six states — Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia — to accelerate progress in college and career readiness in support of Achieve Inc.'s American Diploma Project. SREB's Strengthening Statewide College/Career Readiness Initiative (SSCRI) helps state leaders and policy-makers improve students’ readiness in essential academic subjects and navigate the complexities involved in addressing the problem on a statewide scale. During the life of the project, the National Common Core State Standards were adopted by many states and are being used to help guide the work of creating college- and career-readiness standards and assessments.

Click on one of the six blue SSCRI states on the map below for more information:

Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas Mississippi Florida Tennessee Alabama Georgia Kentucky South_Carolina North_Carolina Virginia West_Virginia Delaware MarylandStatesMap



SREB Tools to Help States Adopt a College and Career Readiness Agenda
SREB has provided tools for states, including a model agenda for college and career readiness that calls for each state to take five actions. Unlike solutions that address readiness at isolated points in the education pipeline, SREB’s model agenda focuses each state’s K-12 and higher education efforts on the same set of college-and career-readiness standards and related student assessments. Using this model as a framework, SREB evaluates college- and career-readiness policies in each participating state and assists state leaders as they develop and implement their own college- and career-readiness action agendas. This model agenda can be used by other states to create a college- and career-readiness initiative.

SREB is also helping states re-examine their teacher development activities and their senior-year transitional course curricula to ensure that teachers are prepared to use state college- and career-readiness standards in their instruction and that students receive the help they need to meet the standards.
For additional information see:
SREB College- and Career-Readiness Publications
Additional College-and Career-Readiness Resources
Frequently Asked Questions

SREB's SSCRI initiative ended in April 2011. While the grant period has concluded, SREB is committed to the College and Career Readiness Initiative and the work happening in the states. Therefore, SREB will continue to promote the model agenda for college readiness and work with these and other states on offering transitional high school courses and correlating teacher development.


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