Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword: "A Toast to Sofia and Hector's Future"--Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Defining and Measuring College and Career Readiness -- 1 The New Complexity of Readiness for College and Careers -- 2 Conceptualizing and Measuring Progress toward College and Career Readiness in Mathematics -- 3 More than a Test Score: Defining and Measuring Personal Qualities -- 4 The Consistent Influence of General Cognitive Ability in College, Career, and Lifetime Achievement -- Part 2 Validating College- and Career-Readiness Performance Levels -- 5 Building External Validity into the Process: Evidence-Based Readiness Standards -- 6 Empirically Based College- and Career-Readiness Cut Scores and Performance Standards -- 7 College Placement Strategies: Evolving Considerations and Practices -- 8 Fairness Issues in the Assessment of College and Career Readiness -- 9 Mixed Messages: When Different Assessments Yield Different Results -- Part 3 Improving College and Career Readiness -- 10 Early Intervention in College and Career Readiness: The GEAR UP Model and its Implications for 21st-Century Education Policy -- 11 Multiple Mathematics Pathways to College, Careers, and Beyond -- 12 Supporting College and Career Readiness through Social Psychological Interventions -- 13 Changing the Assessment Relationship to Empower Teachers and Students -- Conclusion: Future Directions for College- and Career-Readiness Research: Where Do We Go from Here? -- List of Contributors -- Index