CCR Data and Transparency Quiz

That’s right. The 9th grade cohort is the best denominator to use when calculating college and career readiness outcomes because it counts all students who entered 9th grade together. Making calculations about 12th graders or high school graduates, for example, doesn’t account for students who have dropped out or fallen behind earlier in high school, leading to inflated figures.

Nope. The lowest score, earned by Pennsylvania, was just 4 out of 32 possible points. See the state’s full details in its transparency report here.

It’s important for states to consider multiple indicators of college and career readiness to get the most complete picture of student readiness. That data also needs to be disaggregated and count all students. Using only an aggregate number could mask gaps between different groups of students. 

Eight states – Arizona, the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vermont – don’t report any data on college remediation. See Achieve’s full set of transparency reports here.

Not quite. Minnesota earned the highest transparency score, with 26.25 points out of a possible 32. See the details in their transparency report here.

The average score was just above a 50% - 16.5 out of 32 possible points. See the full set of transparency reports here.

That’s right. For the full details on this and other criteria Achieve used to award points in the transparency reports, please see the transparency report methodology.

Sorry, not quite. Just Delaware and Nevada earned a perfect score in the category evaluating whether states report data for all eight indicators of student readiness. Check out their complete state reports here.