Achieve
For A 22-state Initiative To Evaluate Alignment Of Instructional Materials To The Common Core
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Amount$1,050,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/14/2015
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Achieve’s mission is to help states develop coherent systems of standards, assessments, and accountability to better prepare young people for college and careers. Achieve will work to strengthen teacher capacity to identify, develop, and select instructional materials and performance assessments that are high quality and aligned to college- and career-readiness standards. Educators can better deliver deeper learning when they understand the best methods for selecting materials and assessments.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.achieve.org
Address
1919 M Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for development of tools and capacity to undertake external reviews of state assessments
Achieve is an independent, nonpartisan education reform organization dedicated to working with states to raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments, and strengthen accountability. States adopting new college- and career-ready assessments of student achievement will work voluntarily with Achieve to "test the test" by gauging alignment to state standards, quality of content, and depth of cognitive demand. Ensuring that measurement of deeper learning outcomes is accurate, useful, and widespread will require states to adopt high-quality assessment systems rather than choose them primarily on the basis of price or test duration.
