A national readiness audit can be helpful if states are also held accountable through "opportunity audits" that measure children's access to the resources they need to succeed.
Governors, working with the federal government, should develop a national security readiness audit, to judge whether schools are meeting targets.
This in turn would encourage individual institutions to begin to fulfil the requirements in terms of data gathering and carrying out an internal or local audit to assess readiness for the external team visit.
Nor do the authors' emphasis on Common Core standards or their proposed national school readiness audit alone represent viable policy solutions.
The report offers three solutions: expanding the Common Core, a uniform set of curricular standards, to include science, foreign languages and technology; an expansion of school choice that allows more students to enroll in voucher programs and charter schools; and a "national security readiness audit" that governors assemble as a uniform school performance benchmark.
In addition, at baseline, participants provided information on their demographic characteristics, and completed the other items of the full AUDIT and the Readiness to Change (RTC) questionnaire [ 32, 33].
The report found that companies require better internal preparation, including audits that verify readiness to take a more strategic plunge into social business.
A majority of counselors supports measures for their own success, such as transcript audits of graduation readiness; completion of a college prep course sequence; students gaining access to advanced classes and tests; and both high school graduation and college application rates.
Facility audits assessed facility readiness for essential newborn care.
The facility audit data were analysed by type of facility to understand the differences in readiness by level of care delivery.
