Criteria Texas

Relationship Between Criteria and (CR) Program Criteria College Ready Knowledge and Skills Embedded in Curriculum

Student and Teacher Support Structure

Program Example (Texas) CCRS focuses on “keystone” skills and knowledge and cognitive cross-disciplinary skills needed for college and career success such as problem solving and critical thinking. (Closing the Gaps, 2008)

• GO Centers – student centers that promote college going culture and college awareness located in high schools or at satellite centers. See http://www.hsc.unt.edu/education/gocenter/index.cfm • P-20 Longitudinal Data systems: Educational Data Center and Texas P-20 Public Education Information Resource (TPEIR) track students throughout their education through college (Closing the Gaps, 2008)

Comprehensiv Not indicated in the research e Assessment System K-16 Alignment of Standards Curriculum and Assessment

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• Texas Higher Education College Board (THECB) created vertical teams (VT) to create the College Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) comprised of secondary and postsecondary faculties. VT – “specified knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in entry-level community college and university courses” (TCCRS, 2008, p3). Standards connect HS standards: Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) • Texas Success Initiative (TSI) – functions as a mechanism to help students who do not meet CCRS standards • P-16 Alignment though the development of region councils “to foster systemic change in how educational institutions and communities work together to promote implementation of the postsecondary readiness standards and to create and sustain a college-going culture” (Closing the Gaps, p. 20) • Recommended High School Program –HS curriculum aligned with college expectations 1

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Relationship Between Criteria and (CR) Program Longitudinal K-16 Data Tracking System

State College Readiness Budget

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Creation of Texas High School Accountability and Higher Education Accountability Systems – both of which use accountability measures: Participation, Success, Excellence, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness and Efficiencies (Closing the Gaps, 2008)

Financial Aid programs geared towards first generation and economically disadvantaged students: Towards Excellence, Access, and Success Grant (TEXAS), Texas Educational Opportunity Grant, B-On-Time Loan Program (Closing the Gaps, 2008)

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