Relationship Between Criteria and (CR) Program

Criteria Program Example (Texas)

College Ready CCRS focuses on “keystone” skills and knowledge and cognitive cross-disciplinary skills needed for
Knowledge college and career success such as problem solving and critical thinking.
and Skills
(Closing the Gaps, 2008)
Embedded in
Curriculum

• GO Centers – student centers that promote college going culture and college awareness located
Student and in high schools or at satellite centers. See http://www.hsc.unt.edu/education/gocenter/index.cfm
Teacher
Support • P-20 Longitudinal Data systems: Educational Data Center and Texas P-20 Public Education
Structure 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 • Texas Higher Education College Board (THECB) created vertical teams (VT) to create the College
Alignment of Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) comprised of secondary and postsecondary faculties.
Standards
VT – “specified knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in entry-level community college and
Curriculum
and university courses” (TCCRS, 2008, p3).
Assessment 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 post-
secondary 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

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Longitudinal Creation of Texas High School Accountability and Higher Education Accountability Systems
– both of which use accountability measures: Participation, Success, Excellence, Research, and
K-16 Data
Tracking Institutional Effectiveness and Efficiencies
System (Closing the Gaps, 2008)

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

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