Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Support State Visions for College and Career Readiness

This brief presents a policy framework to support states’ efforts to move their CCR visions forward in a cohesive manner.

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Title: Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Support State Visions for College and Career Readiness

Description: This brief presents a policy framework to support states’ efforts to move their CCR visions forward in a cohesive manner. The framework is grouped according to three closely interrelated policy areas under ESSA:

  • Provision of a well-rounded education that emphasizes readiness beyond NCLB’s focus on core academic content via enriched, accelerated curricula and educational experiences and improved conditions for learning.
  • Augmentation of accountability systems to include multiple measures that may form a continuum of usable academic and nonacademic measures of readiness from preschool to the workforce.
  • Design and delivery of purposeful assessment systems that are balanced across summative, interim, and formative tests and yield more meaningful results by considering student background, ability level, and how mastery can be demonstrated.

This brief will also introduce some of the key federal requirements and opportunities under this policy framework for supporting state CCR visions, with a focus on provisions under Titles I, II, and IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by ESSA.

Publish Date: August 2016

Source: College and Career Readiness and Success Center

Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Support State Visions for College and Career Readiness