Created in 1996 by a bipartisan group of governors and business leaders, Achieve is a nonprofit education organization that has spent two decades leading the effort to help states make college and career readiness a priority for all students.
Achieve provides technical assistance on the design, development adoption, implementation, and advocacy of states’ and districts’ college- and career-ready policies. They convene states, experts, and partners to develop solutions to their shared college- and career-ready policy and implementation challenges.
Achieve conducts research to advance the work of states and the broader education community. This includes studies of high school graduation requirements, implementation strategies for state academic standards, state accountability models, measures of instructional material quality, and analyses of expectations from countries around the world. They develop advocacy resources that address common issues around college, and career readiness. These help national, state, and community-based advocates develop, launch, and refine their own college- and career-ready communications and outreach plans.