Achieve Report Shows Progress and Problems

Achieve launched the American Diploma Project (ADP) in 1996 to encourage states to increase secondary school standards to the level of college and workforce readiness.  Each year Achieve surveys all states on their K-12 progress.  The 2009 report displays the pattern of prior years — states are moving ahead on setting higher standards but not on measuring whether schools are meeting them.  Nor are states embedding college ready standards in their accountability or professional development policies.  Only 10 states have assessments rigorous enough to measure whether students are college ready.

So the easy part of proclaiming high standards for college is complete in twenty states, but the hard part is still ahead.  (www.achieve.org )