About Texas College Bridge
Two nonprofit organizations—The Commit Partnership (Commit), dedicated to improving Texans’ access to living wage jobs, and The NROC Project (NROC), makers of EdReady, an adaptive learning platform—launched Texas College Bridge. The program, which ended its first year with 150 active districts and 17 institutions of higher education, currently has just over 600 districts and over 100 college campuses. Texas College Bridge was designed to ensure that students who were identified as underprepared for college—based on GPA, standardized test score(s), or another conventional measure—were provided the opportunity to address their math and English gaps and matriculate to a participating college.
Prior to the introduction of Texas College Bridge, underprepared Texas students who wished to pursue higher education had few opportunities to improve their subject mastery, relegating them to remedial or developmental studies, non-credit coursework that lengthens the time it takes to earn a postsecondary credential or degree while increasing the cost of college. Alternatively, the Texas College Bridge program, for high school juniors and seniors in participating Texas public schools, was built on the premise that all students are postsecondary material. The intervention is not a standardized test; it is a digital, personalized learning experience that empowers students to take charge of their college readiness.