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Annual report from ACT that looks at the college readiness of students based on data from the ACT college entrance exam.

Report from ACT assessing the alignment between the common core and ACT college readiness standards.

Under the LA Grad Act, four-year institutions agree to achieve certain standards in exchange for authority to increase tuition. The performance objectives are aimed at improving college completion and meeting the state's workforce and economic development needs. One performance objective - efficiency and accountability - requires four-year institutions that enter into agreements to eliminate remedial education course offerings and developmental study programs unless such courses or programs cannot be offered at a community college in the same geographic area.

Documents the partnerships between high schools and community colleges and provides evidence of the early assessment and intervention programs to reduce college remediation. The pilot programs are part of the Illinois College and Career Act.

COMPASS is an untimed, computerized test that helps evaluate skills for placment into appropriate courses. Created by ACT

ACT's Assessment System that includes the Explore, Plan and ACT assessment

The Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) provides a longitudinal, systematic approach to educational and career planning, assessment, instructional support, and evaluation.

ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks are the minimum ACT test scores required for students to have a high probability of success in credit-bearing college courses-English Composition, social sciences courses, College Algebra, or Biology.

From ACT, the PLAN program helps 10th graders build a foundation for future academic and career success.

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.

Survey sent to business leaders by the Tennessee Business Roundtable on Complete College Tennessee Act

The EXPLORE program is designed to help 8th and 9th graders explore options for their future.

Published by the Association for Career and Technical Education(ACTE), this 2-page document asserts that career readiness combines academic, "employability," and technical skills, and is not the same as more traditional "college readiness." The document itself is undated, but is footnoted (though most of the sources are also undated).

Analysis of ACT and 10th-grade CSAP scores shows that students needing remediation in their first year of college could have been identified by an examination of assessment results as early as 6th grade. The Colorado departments of K-12 and higher education jointly developed a description of postsecondary and workforce readiness. (Colorado Department of Education and Colorado Department of Higher Education, March 2011)

Governor Jindal's proposal to reform higher education in Louisiana. It includes a proposal to move developmental education exclusively to the community college. It is consistent with recommendations proposed by the Louisiana Postsecondary Review Commission that were released in early February.

This report done by Alliance for Excellent Education documents the costs to postsecondary institutions and the economy as a whole because of the high percent of students who require developmental education. This report is cited by the U.S. Department of Education and President Obama as part of the justification for tying Title 1 funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to state adopting college and career ready standards

Report from a working group from the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities on the factors and predictors related to success in college math.

Focus on Complete College Tennessee Act. Addresses outcome funding model and the directives to community colleges to offer cohort based model and not deliver developmental education.