Symposium addresses college and career readiness.

Symposium addresses college and career readiness. U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE Duncan Arne Duncan (born 11-6-1964) is an American education administrator and basketball player who is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools.Duncan attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. gave the keynote address keynote addressn.An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech.Noun 1. atthe third annual Superintendents' Symposium organized by testingagency ACT and school improvement solutions company America'sChoice, which had a theme of improving the college and career readinessof graduating high school seniors. National 2009 ACT scores released inAugust found just 23 percent of the record 1.5 million graduatingseniors who took the test met all four college readiness benchmarks inEnglish, math, reading and science, and just 70 percent took a corecurriculum. At the August 20-21 symposium, Duncan described the emphasis oncollege and career readiness as "a movement now sweeping thecountry," and highlighted the reforming potential of the Departmentof Education's $650 million Investing in Innovation fund, acompetitive grant program with funds available to local educationagencies that have used new programs to make measurable progress inraising student achievement, ACT and America's Choice also used the symposium to announcethe launch of their new Rigor rigor/rig��or/ (rig��er) [L.] chill; rigidity.rigor mor��tis? the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers. & Readiness initiative, a program ofcore syllabi syl��la��bi?n.A plural of syllabus. and model units in 12 high school courses that alsoincludes professional development resources, data management assistance,formative assessment Formative assessment is a self-reflective process that intends to promote student attainment [1]. Cowie and Bell [2] define it as the bidirectional process between teacher and student to enhance, recognise and respond to the learning. and other tools for districts to ensure college andcareer readiness for graduates.