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Partner Activities

Achieve Activities

• Aligning High School Standards with the Demands of Postsecondary Education and Work. Currently, 13 of the 27 ADP Network states are participating in 10– to 15–month process, during which they attend three Alignment Institutes designed to develop:

1. State academic standards in math and English for entry and success in credit-bearing college courses and high-skills, high-growth jobs.
   
2. Practical options for high school assessments aligned with these academic standards for use in postsecondary placement decisions.
   
3. Commitment from postsecondary institutions and faculty to use the academic standards and assessments in admissions and placement decisions.
   
4. Validation and support for the academic standards and aligned assessments from the business community.

• Backmapping ADP Mathematics and English Standards. Achieve is “backmapping” its end-of-high-school math and English expectations to provide a framework for K–12 content expectations that will prepare students for credit-bearing college coursework.
  
  

• Developing an Algebra II End-of-Course Assessment. Nine states are entering into a compact with Achieve to develop a common Algebra II end-of-course assessment that will indicate students' readiness for college-level math.
  
  

For more information: visit http://www.achieve.org.

NASH Activities

• Two Annual State K–16 Institutes: A State Education CEO K–16 Spring Meeting and a State Academic Leaders K–16 Summer Institute. At these meetings, teams of government and education leaders from K–12 and postsecondary education work together on strategies to leverage improvement in student achievement.
  
  
• Scans of Current State Practices and Issue Briefs. NASH will prepare reports on enhancing educator quality, accelerating student success, and using K–16 data to galvanize action.
  
  

For more information, visit http://www.nashonline.org.

SHEEO Activities

• An updated publication of the 2003 volume, Student Success: Statewide P–16 Systems. Student Success focuses on five key elements of state systems: early outreach programs, curriculum and assessment, quality teaching, student assistance, and data and accountability systems.
  
  
• Two P–20 Working Group Meetings (Linking K–12 and Postsecondary Data Systems, June 2007; Increasing the Effectiveness of P–20 Councils, October 2007). These workshop-style meetings will bring together state teams of K–12 and postsecondary leaders with issue-specific resource experts for focused dialogue on the development and implementation of effective statewide strategies.
  
  

For more information, visit http://www.sheeo.org.