Rising to the Challenge: Are High School Graduates Prepared for College and Work?
Achieve recently released the results of a national online survey it conducted in November 2014 among recent public high school graduates from the classes of 2011 through 2014. The report, Rising to the Challenge: Are High School Graduates Prepared for College and Work?, details the gaps that respondents reported in their preparedness for college and work after high school, what respondents would have done differently had they known in high school what they know now about the expectations of college or the work world, and respondents' thoughts about the potential impact of various proposed solutions for better preparing high school students for college and work.