• The Completion Arch

    The Completion Arch is an innovative web-based resource that collects, organizes and explains the vast amount of publicly available data used to measure community college student progress...

  • Big Future Is Here!

    The free step-by-step guide to college planning from the College Board. Find your big future.

  • Young Men of Color: Charting a Way for Educational Success event

    The College Board, IHEP, and 100 educational leaders convened to highlight strategies and practices that improve the educational outcomes of young men of color.

  • Advocacy in Action Toolkit

    This suite of conversation materials has been designed to help you get started in pushing forward our collective education advocacy efforts.

  • MTV, Get Schooled and the College Board Launch New Tool to Connect Students with Money for College

    Learn more about this new Facebook application that links students with financial aid opportunities.

  • Simplifying Student Aid: What It Would Mean for States

    The College Board recently completed a five-state study to learn how further simplification of the FAFSA would affect student eligibility for state need-based grant programs.

  • NOSCA: Largest School Counselor Survey

    See how school counselors view their mission, spend their days, and believe they can better serve students.

  • Toolkit: Enhancing the Principal-School Counselor Relationship

    A new toolkit to increase student achievement by building a strong working relationship between principals and school counselors.

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About Us

The College Board Advocacy & Policy Center was established to help transform education in America.

Guided by the College Board’s principles of excellence and equity in education, we work to ensure that students from all backgrounds have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond. We make critical connections between policy, research and real-world practice to develop innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges in education today.

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News & Events

Oct24-26
Proposal submission deadline is April 16.
Apr 30
The archived webcast features a distinguished group of higher education advocates from across the nation.
Read what practicing classroom teachers have to say about schools of education and how they can be improved in the future.
State Simplification Report
Apr13-14
255 persons attended NOSCA's 5th anniversary conference.
Apr12-13
Nancy Rubino will join in giving an overview on the Next Generation Arts Standards Project at the AEP Forum
Mar 30
Nancy Rubino will present a briefing on the College Board’s research on Arts education
Jan18-Mar28
Join the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center and NASSP for a Common Core Standards webinar series aimed at school leaders.

"The initial progress report issued by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center underscores both the critical challenges and the vital importance of advancing the college completion agenda. The United States' downward drift among industrialized nations in postsecondary completion threatens our nation's future economic well-being as well as our position of global leadership. The coordinated, comprehensive approach recommended by the College Board—viewing education as a continuum, aligning curriculum, improving access and affordability, and other actions—gives us the opportunity to plug the numerous "leaks" in the educational pipeline, reverse the troubling trends in college completion, and secure America's economic and social future for generations to come. I am heartened by the progress we are seeing in some areas, but a broader commitment is required if we genuinely wish to succeed."

William "Brit" Kirwan
Chancellor, University System of Maryland