College and Career Readiness
Additional Resources:
- www.achieve.org
- What is Career Ready? (ACTE)
- Building Blocks for Change: What it Means to be Career Ready (Career Readiness Partner Council)
With the growing complexity of the world and the increasing demands of the 21st-century workforce, there is little question that all students should be prepared for college, careers and life.
Below are two fact sheets that explore the definition of "college and career readiness" and the "college- and career-ready agenda," as well as a fact sheet on how college and career readiness can help bolster U.S. competitiveness, research exploring the economic case for college- and career-ready expectations for all students, and a flexible fact sheet to help you defend pushback against the agenda.


