The Common Core State Standards Initiaitive is a state-led efford coordinated by the National Governors Association for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers
Policy Information Perspective from ETS. Report discusses issues involved in the debate over whether the United States should have national education standards, and implications for implementation.
National CrossTalk -- Vol. 18 / No. 2 -- December, 2010
Commentary by SREB President, Dave Spence on need for more comprehensive college readiness standards and accountability. Suggests that states uniformly adopt ACT College Readiness Benchmarks or something similar.
The GED testing service has just published Crossing the Bridge: GED credentials and Post Secondary Educational Outcomes. This is a baseline report that follows GED graduates from 2003 (first cohort of the new test) and their enrollment, persistence, and graduation from post secondary institutions. It compares this group with the high school diploma and general population for the school's attended. This is the first year report of a 3 year project to provide a cohort of students with targeted instruction, GED passage, career exploration, and college readiness. The GED administered will be a prototype using the national State College Readiness standards.