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David Conley is an academic expert on college readiness, specifically involving common core education standards, college and high school course content analysis, high school-college alignment and transition, and large-scale diagnosis and assessment of college readiness. He is co-chair of the Common Core State Standards Validation Committee and the Smarter Balanced Technical Advisory Committee, and author of "Getting Ready for College, Careers and the Common Core: What Every Educator Needs to Know."
Recent Media:
- Oregon Dropped Graduation Test Requirements. Here's What That Means For Education In The State (WBUR, Sept. 24, 2021)
- College-readiness assessments: Be careful what you wish for (Education Week, Nov. 18, 2015)
- Accountability needs narrative more than numbers (Education Week, June 10, 2015)
- Is ed. data a fitbit or a post-mortem (Education Week, June 1, 2015)
- As 2016 GOPers flee Common Core, Jeb Bush is the odd man out (MSNBC.com, May 30, 2015)
- Poll: California residents support performance metrics over teacher tenure (The Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2015)
- What we're missing in measuring who's ready for college (FiveThirtyEight, March 23, 2015)
- Colleges not ready for 'college ready' common core (Politico, March 9, 2015)