American Diploma Project

The American Diploma Project (ADP), a partnership of four national organizations and five states, is a collaborative effort to ensure that American high school students have the knowledge and skills necessary for success following graduation, whether in college, the workplace or the armed services. Launched in 2001with funding from The Hewlitt Foundation, the organizations—Achieve, Inc., The Education Trust, The Fordham Foundation and The National Alliance of Business—have worked with Indiana, Kentucky,  Massachusetts, Nevada and Texas to build constituencies and develop policies to support a coherent K-16 system.

ADP has just published a set of end-of-high school benchmarks that integrate the knowledge and skills needed for success in college and the workplace. The project has also collected work samples from the workplace as well as freshman college courses that show the benchmarks in action.

For more information on ADP, please visit:

http://www.achieve.org/node/604