Achieve, Inc.
Contact Information:
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Alissa Peltzman |
Description of Organization |
Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve, Inc., is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work and citizenship. In 2005, Achieve co-sponsored the National Education Summit on High Schools. As a result of the Summit, 29 states joined with Achieve to form the American Diploma Project Network - a coalition of states committed to aligning high school standards, assessments, graduation requirements and accountability systems with the demands of college and the workplace. |
Dropout Recovery Related |
Staying the Course: Raising Standards and Raising Graduation Rates is a joint project of Achieve and Jobs for the Future, with the support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The goal of the project is to identify promising, actionable strategies states and local school districts can use to increase the high school graduation rate, while states are simultaneously raising standards for high school graduation. Just one year after 45 of the nation's governors joined leaders from education and business to make high school reform a national priority, many states are making progress closing the expectations gap between what is demanded of students in high school and the skills they need to be successful in college and careers, according to a new 50-state survey conducted by Achieve. But the report also shows that there is still much more to be done.
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