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Additional resources around the college- and career-readiness agenda are sorted under six detailed topics.

SREB SSCRI Meetings:
SREB continues to hold meetings with state officials and consultants related to the College- and Career-Readiness Initiative. As the project began, SREB held evaluation meetings within Texas, Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland to conduct interviews with state education leaders, K-12 and higher education administrators, and faculty and teachers throughout each state. These meetings helped SREB produce state progress reports and recommendations for improvement in these four states. See SREB’s progress reports for Texas, Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland.

SREB held a Convening of the States in December 2009, where the organization invited representation from five states to come to Atlanta to discuss each state’s progress, promising practices that were emerging, challenges and future plans (at the time, Florida had not joined the SREB College- and Career-Readiness Initiative). Gubernatorial, legislative, and state agency representatives attended the two-day meeting from Texas, Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland and West Virginia, including the First Lady of West Virginia, Mrs. Gayle Manchin. Also in attendance was a representative from Achieve and several expert education consultants hired by SREB to assist with the state evaluations and policy development. See the 2009 SREB Convening of the States Agenda.

SREB held a Second State Convening in October 2010 in Richmond, Virginia, for all six states to come together again to examine the project’s progress and tackle challenges faced by the state leaders. SREB again hosted gubernatorial, legislative, and state agency representatives, as well as local K-12 and higher education faculty from the states, as well as various national and regional education experts, and a representative from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Topics discussed at the meeting can be seen on the 2010 SREB Second Convening of the States Agenda.


College and Career Readiness:
ACT’s College Readiness Standards: http://www.act.org/standard/.

ACT reports – College Readiness Begins in Middle School: http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/CollegeReadiness.pdf. The Role of Nonacademic Factors in College Readiness and Success: http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/nonacademic_factors.pdf 
Ready for College and Ready for Work: Same or Different? http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/ReadinessBrief.pdf.

ACT National Career Readiness Certificates: http://www.act.org/certificate/.

Achieve report – Achieving the Possible: What Americans Think About the College- and Career-Ready Agenda: http://www.achieve.org/AchievingthePossible.

Alliance for Excellent Education – College and Career Readiness: http://www.all4ed.org/publication_material/CollegeWork_Readiness.

American Council on Education – Advancing College Readiness: http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=ACR. Report- Implementing the Common Core State Standards: http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=39580&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm.

American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) report – Redefining College Readiness: http://www.aypf.org/documents/RedefiningCollegeReadiness.pdf.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – College Ready Education: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/college-ready-education/Pages/default.aspx.

Center on Education Policy: http://www.cep-dc.org/.

College Board - Common State Standards and Assessments on College and Career Readiness: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/policy-advocacy/policy/common-state-standards. College Readiness Systems: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/readiness-system.

Education Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) – College Readiness http://www.epiconline.org/publications/college_readiness.

Keytrain – the National Career Readiness Certificate: http://keytrain.com/main/crc.asp.

Lumina Foundation – Academic Readiness: http://www.luminafoundation.org/our_work/student_preparedness/academic_readiness.html.

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research report – Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ewp_03.htm.

National Assessment Governing Board report – Technical Panel on 12th Grade Preparedness Research Final Report: http://www.nagb.org/publications/PreparednessFinalReport.pdf.

National Postsecondary Educational Cooperative (NPEC) report – What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature: http://nces.ed.gov/npec/pdf/Kuh_Team_ExecSumm.pdf.

National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) report - What Student Engagement Data Tell Us About College Readiness: http://nsse.iub.edu/uploads/PRWI07_Kuh.pdf.

Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education report – Improving College Readiness and Success for All Students: A Joint Responsibility Between K–12 and Postsecondary Education: http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/kirst-venezia.pdf.


Transitional Courses:
Education Commission of the States report - Embedding College Readiness Indicators in High School Curriculum and Assessments: http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/68/55/6855.pdf.

Lumina – Developmental Education: http://www.collegeproductivity.org/page/projects/time-completion-ttc/policy/policy-levers/developmental-education.

Pacer Center report - Life After High School Transition Tool Kit: http://www.pacer.org/tatra/2009award.pdf.


Assessment Consortia:
Achieve Assessment Consortium: http://www.achieve.org/ADPAssessmentConsortium.

Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC): http://www.fldoe.org/parcc/.

The SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortia (SBAC): http://www.k12.wa.us/SMARTER/default.aspx.



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