Achieve released this brief at the 25th anniversary of A Nation at Risk was released, highlighting the renewed momentum for improving student achievement, preparing high school graduates for success in college and careers, and keeping America competitive.

This report details state progress implementing the American Diploma Project policy agenda.

This policy brief informs leaders, particularly those who are implementing the ADP agenda in states, about the opportunities to align and coordinate strategies between ADP and the Perkins Act. It addresses the components of the new Perkins Act, discusses CTE more broadly in the context of the ADP agenda, and offers a number of complementary and mutually supportive strategies state ADP leadership teams could employ to implement the ADP agenda and the Perkins Act.

The goals of this research are to clarify how interim assessments fit into the landscape of formative assessment and to offer recommendations to districts on the appropriate use of interim assessments as part of a broader assessment system.

After conducting a thorough policy analysis, Achieve and Jobs for the Future suggested in this report to North Carolina ways it can create a more coherent, intentional, and aligned assessment and accountability system to improve both achievement and graduation rates for struggling and out-of-school students.

Each year, on the anniversary of the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools, Achieve releases an annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers. Closing the Expectations Gap, 2007 is the second annual report in this series.

This Achieve report examines what admissions and placement tests measure with recommendations for K-12 and higher education policymakers.

Creating a World-Class Education System in Ohio is intended for Ohio policymakers and all other stakeholders interested in moving Ohio’s K-12 system to world-class levels.

This study compared the content, rigor and passing (meets proficiency) scores on Hawaii’s assessment with those of the six states that participated in Achieve’s earlier study of high school assessments.

Achieve assessed the alignment between a sample of college placement tests used by Washington’s state postsecondary institutions and the College Readiness Mathematics Standards (CRMS).