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The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2013: Students from Low-Income Families
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ACT, Inc., 2014
ACT has been measuring college readiness trends for several years. "The Condition of College & Career Readiness" is ACT's annual report on the progress of the graduating class relative to college readiness. This year, 54.3% of the graduating class took the ACT® college readiness assessment. This report is designed to help inform the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Academic Standards
Building with Benchmarks: The Role of the District in Philadelphia's Benchmark Assessment System
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Bulkley, Katrina E.; Christman, Jolley Bruce; Goertz, Margaret E.; Lawrence, Nancy R. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2010
In recent years, interim assessments have become an increasingly popular tool in districts seeking to improve student learning and achievement. Philadelphia has been at the forefront of this change, implementing a set of Benchmark assessments aligned with its Core Curriculum district-wide in 2004. In this article, we examine the overall context…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Benchmarking, School Districts, Case Studies
EPAS[R] State of the Nation Report, 2007: Mathematics
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ACT, Inc., 2008
The purpose of this report is to examine results in mathematics for the ACT Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) in schools nationwide. EPAS consists of three programs: EXPLORE[R] (for students in grade 8 or 9), PLAN[R] (for students in grade 10), and the ACT[R] test (for students in grade 11 or 12). The following questions are…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, High Schools, Core Curriculum, Educational Planning