College Readiness Checklist Fails to Make the Grade

While we've been away this summer, the School Superintendent's Association (AASA) has released a series of National College and Career Readiness Indicators. These three checklists can be used to determine if students will succeed in their chosen postsecondary path of college or career, along with one checklist to determine if they are, according to the Website, ready for life.

AASA calls these research-based metrics, but doesn't site the research on their Website or indicate the involvement of counselors or college admission officers in the creation of the lists. They go on to state "the campaign is a response to dismal college and career readiness scores reported by standardized test makers that fail to portray a comprehensive picture of student potential."

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