What role do college and career readiness strategies play in dropout prevention?
Texas has been recognized by Achieve, a national non-profit organization that helps states raise standards, as the only state in the nation to fully adopt a college and career readiness agenda. Research shows that strategies that improve the rigor and relevance of instruction to ensure students have the necessary skills to graduate and succeed in college and the workplace are effective in reducing dropouts. You can read about Texas’ progress on the college and career ready agenda in Achieve’s Closing the Expectations Gap, 2010. You can learn more about how rigorous and relevant instruction reduces dropouts in the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) Dropout Prevention Practice Guide.
