We Drive Student Success

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WE DELIVER EXPERTISE

WE DEVELOP SOLUTIONS

Created in 1996 by a bipartisan group of governors and business leaders, Achieve has spent two decades leading the effort to help states make college and career readiness a priority for all students.

Central to our work is our commitment to support leaders from across and within states to tackle common challenges.

Board of Directors includes current and former governors and leaders from the civil rights, education, and business communities – all committed to delivering for students.

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diverse team of educators, researchers, advocates, and other experts represents decades of experience at the local, state, and national levels.

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coalitions we build include representatives from K-12 and higher education, governors’ offices, legislatures, state boards of education, schools, and business and community-based organizations.

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provide technical assistance on the design, development, adoption, implementation, and advocacy of states’ and districts’ college- and career-ready policies.

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convene states, experts, and partners to develop solutions to their shared college- and career-ready policy and implementation challenges.

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conduct research to advance the work of states and the broader education community. This includes studies of high school graduation requirements, implementation strategies for state academic standards, state accountability models, measures of instructional material quality, and analyses of expectations from countries around the world.

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develop advocacy resources that address common issues around college, and career readiness. These help national, state, and community-based advocates develop, launch, and refine their own college- and career-ready communications and outreach plans.

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WE GENERATE RESULTS For 20 years, states have turned to Achieve to collaborate on education policy and practice. Among our major contributions: with the landmark American Diploma Project, made college and career readiness a 50-state priority, working with nearly every state and their higher education and employer communities to close the expectations gap – the gap between what a state expects of all high school graduates and what it actually takes to succeed after graduation;

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the criteria states and others use to develop high-quality standards in math, English language arts (ELA)/literacy, and other subjects; the tools that states, districts, and teachers use to determine whether instructional material is of high quality and aligned to their states’ learning standards;

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the request of 26 states, managed the development of the Next Generation Science Standards; and

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our expertise in assessments to help states develop high-quality assessments and ensure they are aligned with the state’s learning standards.

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