States are trying to measure college and career readiness, writes Alyson Klein in Education Week. There’s no consensus on how to do it.
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“States had to choose at least one “measure of school quality or student success — something beyond test scores — under the Every Student Succeeds Act,” she writes. “Career readiness was by far one of the most popular choices.”
However, most states judge students’ readiness by their high school course-taking, test scores or credentials earned, not on how they fare after graduation.
College readiness “will not mean that students enter college, or enter college without remediation,” says Phillip Lovell of the Alliance for Excellent Education.