The Building Blocks of Success: Higher Level Math for All Students explores the intellectual and practical benefits to all students of taking higher-level mathematics courses in high school, focusing on college access and success, workplace and career readiness, and personal and U.S. competitiveness.

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.

High school graduates reflect on the quality of their high school education.

Ready or Not is the culminating report of the original American Diploma Project (ADP), a multi-year research project that led to the development of the ADP Benchmarks, end-of-high school expectations in mathematics and English Language Arts that represent what students need to know and be able to do to be ready for college and careers.