Closing the Expectations Gap, 2010
In 2005, the National Governors Association (NGA) and Achieve co-sponsored the National Education Summit on high schools, with the goal of aligning high school graduation requirements with the demands of college and the workplace. This annual 50-state progress report examines the progress toward this goal in regard to five areas of reform: standards, graduation requirements, P-20 data systems, assessments and accountability.
The report finds that states have made significant progress on the college- and career-ready agenda. In 2005, only a few states had begun to work the five areas aligned to college and career readiness, and no state had made it the focus of its accountability system. Today, nearly every state has made progress on the agenda. The authors attribute the progress to state leadership, both individually and collectively.
Created by the nation’s governors and business leaders, Achieve is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for college, careers and citizenship. Achieve has annually conducted the "Closing the Expectations Gap" report series since 2005.
