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30% of first year students in postsecondary education are required to take remedial courses.

A Call for Change and Collaboration: Too Few Students Graduate from High School Prepared for College and Careers. 30% of first year students in postsecondary education are required to take remedial courses.

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30% of first year students in postsecondary education are required to take remedial courses.

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  1. A Call for Change and Collaboration: Too Few Students Graduate from High School Prepared for College and Careers • 30% of first year students in postsecondary education are required to take remedial courses. • 40% - 45% of recent high school graduates report significant gaps in their skills, both in college and the workplace. • Faculty estimate 42% of first year students in credit-bearing courses are academically unprepared. • Employers estimate 45% of recent high school graduates lack skills to advance.

  2. American Diploma Project • The American Diploma Project (ADP) was created to ensure all graduates leave high school ready for college and careers. • Early research by ADP sought to identify “must-have” knowledge and skills graduates will need to be successful in college and the workplace. • ADP found that ready for college and ready for career are essentially the same.

  3. ADP Network: 33 States Committed to Improving Student Preparation

  4. In Mathematics: A rigorous four-year course sequence Content* equivalent to a sequence that includes Algebra I and II, Geometry, and some Data Analysis & Statistics *can be taught via different pathways In English: Four courses Content equivalent to four years of grade-level English or higher with a strong focus on oral and written communication skills and considerable research and analysis The ADP Benchmarks: Challenging Content for All Students To cover the content in the ADP benchmarks, high school graduates need:

  5. In English, the benchmarks cover: Language Communication Writing Research Logic Informational text Media Literature Cross-cutting college/workplace tasks In math, the benchmarks cover: Number sense and numerical operations Algebra Geometry Data interpretation, statistics and probability Math reasoning skills Cross-cutting college/workplace tasks ADP Expectations Help Ensure High School Graduates are Prepared to Succeed

  6. ADP Benchmarks: Necessary But Not Sufficient • What else is necessary to ensure rigorous and aligned mathematics instruction from K-12? • More guidance than cumulative “end-of-high school” benchmarks • Model standards that “backmap” from the ADP Benchmarks to include high school and middle school course options and elementary grade-level standards • Criteria and models for 4th year capstone mathematics course options • Supply of aligned instructional tasks

  7. Closing the Mathematics Expectations Gap Achieve and Dana Center Joint Web Site and Tools www.utdanacenter.org/k12mathbenchmarks

  8. Tools on the Achieve/Dana Center Web Site: “Backmapped” Benchmarks Joint Achieve/Dana Center Web site includes: • Link to ADP benchmarks on Achieve Web site • Common core of “backmapped” secondary-level, benchmarks (7-12), organized by strand and level • Model Secondary Course Sequences • Two model high school course sequences (traditional plus and integrated) based on the common core • Two model middle school options (2-year course sequence and 1 year advanced course) • Model K-6 benchmarks, organized by strand and grade level

  9. Tools on the Achieve/Dana Center Web Site: Benchmark Support Tools Joint Achieve/Dana Center Web site includes: • Secondary-level sample tasks • 30 instructional/assessment tasks aligned with the “backmapped” benchmarks • Link to workplace tasks on Achieve Web site • Content standards for the Achieve ADP Algebra II End-of-Course Exam • Correlations for the secondary-level expectations

  10. Tools on the Achieve/Dana Center Web Site: Supporting Resources Joint Achieve/Dana Center Web site includes: • Criteria and models for fourth-year capstone courses for students who have completed mathematics through Algebra II, or the equivalent • Practices Worthy of Attention (PWOA) • Link to Mathematics at Work brochures on Achieve Web site

  11. Closing the Mathematics Expectations Gap Workforce Brochures, White Paper and Advocacy Kit www.achieve.org/mathatwork

  12. More Information For more information on Achieve, please visit Achieve, Inc., on the Web at http://www.achieve.org To visit the joint Achieve/Dana Center website, please visit http://www.utdanacenter.org/k12mathbenchmarks Contact Achieve: Kaye Forgione kforgione@achieve.org

  13. A Closer Look at Components Developed by the Dana Center • Instructional Tasks • Capstone Course • Practices Worthy of Attention

  14. Questions to Guide Discussion • Will the tools on the joint Achieve/Dana Center Web site be useful to you in your district? • Which of the tools will be most helpful? • How do you envision being able to use these tools? • How could these tools be made more useful for you? • Are there other types of tools that you need?

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