College Readiness and High School-to-College Success

The nation's K-12 educational systems may be reaching a potentially historical turning point. Initially designed to educate students to a "common" level of basic education, public schools are now expected increasingly to prepare the vast majority of students for education beyond high school. Achieving this difficult goal is complicated by a number of factors. What will it take to transform American education from sorting and selecting students for college to enabling more students to be truly ready for postsecondary success?