The College Board Standards for College Success™ (CBSCS) define the knowledge and skills students need to develop and master in English language arts, mathematics and statistics, and science in order to be college and career ready. The CBSCS outline a clear and coherent pathway to Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) courses and college readiness, with the goal of increasing the number and diversity of students who are prepared not only to enroll in college, but also to succeed in college and 21st-century careers. The College Board has published these standards freely to provide a national model of rigorous academic content standards that states, districts, schools and teachers may use to vertically align curriculum, instruction, assessment and professional development to AP and college readiness. These rigorous standards:

• provide a model set of comprehensive standards for middle school and high school courses that lead to college and workplace readiness;
• reflect 21st-century skills such as problem solving, critical and creative thinking, collaboration, and media and technological literacy;
• articulate clear standards and objectives with supporting, in-depth performance expectations to guide instruction and curriculum development;
• provide teachers, districts and states with tools for increasing the rigor and alignment of courses across grades 6–12 to college and workplace readiness; and
• assist teachers in designing lessons and classroom assessments.