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29 Aug 2016
Brief

Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Support State Visions for College and Career Readiness

David English, Jeremy Rasmussen, Ellen Cushing, and Susan Therriault

States have implemented policies and initiatives supporting student college and career readiness by focusing on academic knowledge, social-emotional learning, and employability skills. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides an opportunity for states to operationalize their college and career readiness vision. 

Image of Leveraging ESSA for College and Career Readiness report coverThis brief provides a policy framework to help states align their college and career readiness definitions with relevant policy provisions under ESSA into one cohesive strategy. The framework is grouped into three interrelated policy areas under ESSA:

  • Provision of a well-rounded education that emphasizes readiness beyond NCLB’s focus on core academic content via enriched, accelerated curricula and educational experiences and improved conditions for learning
  • Augmentation of accountability systems to include multiple measures that may form a continuum of usable academic and nonacademic measures of readiness from preschool to the workforce
  • Design and delivery of purposeful assessment systems that are balanced across summative, interim, and formative tests and yield more meaningful results by considering student background, ability level, and how mastery can be demonstrated
Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Support State Visions for College and Career Readiness (PDF)

Related Centers

Center

College and Career Readiness and Success Center

The College & Career Readiness & Success Center (CCRS Center) provides technical assistance support to states focused on ensuring all students graduate high school ready for college and career success. The mission of the Center is to build the capacity of states to effectively implement college and career ready initiatives such as career and technical education, work-based learning, career pathways, employability skills, and competency-based education.

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ESSA │College and Career Readiness

The path to college and career readiness is complex. Providing schools and students with the research-based support they need at every critical stage can make all the difference for success, and ESSA provides an opportunity for states and districts to develop a more coherent and coordinated approach to ensuring all students are college and career ready. AIR works with leaders at the state, district and school levels to consider strategies that fit the local context and are supported by evidence.
Topic: 
Education, College and Career Readiness, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
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ESSA Co-Pilot: Implementing Your State's Plan

Implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents policymakers and stakeholders with opportunities to improve outcomes for schools and students as well as teachers and leaders. AIR’s ESSA Co-Pilot will help you navigate the most current information, key topics, and research-based resources that you can use in planning and implementing ESSA at the state and local level.
Topic: 
Education, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

Further Reading

  • College and Career Readiness Begins With a Well-Rounded Education: Opportunities Under the Every Student Succeeds Act
  • Developing a College- and Career-Ready Workforce: An Analysis of ESSA, Perkins, and WIOA
  • ESSA │College and Career Readiness
  • Navigating ESSA with the AIR Co-Pilot: 13 Key Resources
  • ESSA │Accountability
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Ellen Cushing

Senior Researcher

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College and Career Readiness
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

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