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PRIORITY
GOALS & METRICS
All Maryland students graduate from high school
Increase in percentage of high school graduates who
college and career ready, and with an individualized
met the state College and Career Readiness (CCR)
plan to succeed in college, career, and life.
standard and completed a CCR pathway.
SNAPSHOT OF ENGAGEMENT
WHEN SURVEYED
Teachers and business leaders
selected Expanding CTE Programs
among the top five most frequently
selected priorities.
DURING ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSIONS
IN THE LISTENING SESSIONS
Participants advocated for greater
investment in career counseling
and for an expansion of college and
career courses to better prepare all
students for postsecondary success.
Participants envisioned a seamless
transition for students from career
exploration to preparation and
training, and from credentialing to
hiring and career success.
Student achievement, graduation rate, and postsecondary enrollment data for
Maryland students, especially for underserved student populations, signal the need to
rethink how we prepare our students for college, career, and life.
The Maryland State Department of Education’s
College and Career Readiness Roadmap to
Implementation report tracks the preparation
necessary for implementing Pillar 3: College and
Career Readiness, which reimagines what students
must know and be able to do by the end of the 10th
grade and by the time they graduate high school.
The Maryland College and Career Readiness
Empirical Study: Interim Report on the Predictive
Validity Analysis examined how well high school
measures of readiness at the end of a student’s
second year of high school (10th grade) predict
postsecondary progress and explored alternative
ways of meeting the readiness standard.