Get Ready for Postsecondary Success!
To be successful after high school, today's graduates must be prepared for the ever-increasing demands of college and the workplace. Sadly, most of them are not.
Under the leadership of educator and national policy expert Dr. David T. Conley, the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) has developed several diagnostic instruments and online tools to help schools better prepare students for college and career readiness so that, happily, they are.
College Ready Services
In addition to creating systems and tools for postsecondary preparedness, we
- Research and design assessment tools to create new methods for measuring the college and career readiness of high school students
- Promote high school-to-college alignment by creating relevant instructional materials
- Analyze course content with applied methods and tools
- Identify gaps between high school expectations and college expectations
- Provide policy recommendations to identify necessary actions to support student success
- Develop standards that define college and career readiness
- Validate and refine college and career readiness standards by comparing them to the content of high school courses and entry-level college courses