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Author(s):	Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Title:	Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
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Organization:	Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Short Description:	The Center advocates for better policies, more investment, and increased political will to address the national need for increased postsecondary education and credentials, especially among low-income adults and disadvantaged youth.
Annotation:	Postsecondary education and credentials are key to economic mobility for individuals and economic competitiveness for our nation. Yet too many low-income adults and disadvantaged youth are locked out of the opportunity to earn credentials and are falling further and further behind. The Center advocates for better policies, more investment, and increased political will to address this national challenge.
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Adult Students

Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion

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Improving Postsecondary Student Success

Low-Income Students

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Non-traditional Students

Policy

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Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students

Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Latino college completion: State series

Latino college completion: Texas

Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand

Latino college completion: California

The College Match Program

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

Project WIn-Win

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

The Future Ready Project

Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

State policy profiles for completion by design

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success

Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era

Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color

Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series

The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream

What is "career ready"?

Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members

Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes

Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education

On the road to success

The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success

Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish

The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom

What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs

Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration

Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges

Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer

From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.

"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student

How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

National Center on Education and the Economy

Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students

Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance

Investing in lasting change: Productivity and U.S. higher education

Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0

Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males

Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through

New England Journal of Higher Education

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Educational Policy Improvement Center

The productivity argument for investing in young children

A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all

Opportunity.gov

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature

Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges

Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007

Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration

Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources

With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college

American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success

Global Skills for Global Completion

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)

Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know

Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis

Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada

Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis

Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed

Maximizing the potential of older adults: Benefits to state economies and individual well-being

The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families

Understanding the working college student

The College Completion Agenda

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students

Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream

Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College

Measuring up 2006

Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries

To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults

Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work

Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?

Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds

First generation college students: A literature review

Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do

Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

The career pathways how-to guide

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Adult education participation in 2004-05

Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01

Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries

Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings

Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools

A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students

Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

College of Adult and Professional Studies

Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

Forging new partnerships: Adult and developmental education in community colleges

Why community colleges?

Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work

Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study

Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages

Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report

Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

Workers need training, not tough talk

Retooling career and technical education

National Council of La Raza

Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list

The national articulation and transfer network

The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities

Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

The path to prosperity: A policy of investment

The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

The Breakthrough High School project

Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development

Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

The real technology challenge

A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates

Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth

National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years

Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution

Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century

What works for Latino students

Is college right for your child?: How to weigh the pros and cons

Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)

Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy

Indiana State Profile

Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options

Dream it! Do it!

New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

Just for the kids

Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier

Engaging students, challenging the odds

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work

NCHEMS information center

Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities

From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

Solutions for our future.org

Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention

New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees

Grantmakers for Education

Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students

Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges

On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

A next social contract for the primary years of education

Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success

The workplace realities

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

National Center for Academic Transformation

Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF)

Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue

Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates

Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

College InSight

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes

Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary

A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences

Commission to Build a Healthier America

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

The state of learning disabilities 2009

Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school

Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students

Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators

Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

Institute for a Competitive Workforce

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

I-STEM Resource Network

The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction

Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability

The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Community colleges under stress

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Flexible learning options for adult students

An examination of the information technology job market

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries

The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions

Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda

The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress

The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students

Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation

Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports

Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis

Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school

Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college

Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond

A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research

The global gender gap index: 2011

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers

Operation College Promise

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students

Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students

Assets & opportunity scorecard

Prison vs. Princeton

Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds

Most Americans see college as essential to getting a good job

A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)

Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges

2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)

Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data

Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions

Ten facts about the recovery

Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree

The condition of education 2011

Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

The role of mentoring in college access and success

How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture

A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

Gender inequalities in education

Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education

Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs

Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges

Buying college: What consumers need to know

Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

A sound investment: The community college dividend

An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations

Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it

Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges

Developmental education in community colleges

Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations

Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates

Ensuring success for returning veterans

The US STEM education model (simulation)

When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures

Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males

Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males

Community college and high school partnerships

Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years

Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?

Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma

Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success

Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas

Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study

What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

National Youth Employment Coalition

Breaking new ground: Building a national workforce skills credentialing system

Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges

Community college student survey

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities

Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states

Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons

Latino college completion: Florida

Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges

Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools

The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals

America's youth: Transitions to adulthood

Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce

Western Policy Exchanges

Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools

STEM: State reports and state level analysis

Leveraging data for college completion

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:

American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour

Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?

Labor market returns to sub-baccalaureate credentials: How much does a community college degree or certificate pay?

Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices

Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes

Does America promote mobility as well as other nations?

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

Measuring efficiency in the community college sector

2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011

Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions

Innovation in higher education: Public opinion survey results

An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students

2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness

Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways

Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale

Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City

The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

Common measures for college access and success

A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences

College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students

The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution

Good Shepherd Services

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

College access and success state data

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

McNair scholar handbook

National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update

On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment

Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs

Strengthening state policies to increase the education and skills of low-wage workers

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

Making high school students into "college material"

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges

Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions

College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy

A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment

Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

Ups and downs: Does the American economy still promote upward mobility?

Campaign for High School Equity

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009

Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

Growing What Works Database

The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success

State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)

Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males

College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success

The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges

College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success

Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success

Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

Gender gap grows

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources

Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults

21st century skills for 21st century jobs

The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings

Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity

The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements

National college access network

Postsecondary education opportunity

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future

Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

Career and technical education's role in American competitiveness

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

Collegiate learning assessement project

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students

Education and incarceration

Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly

Catching the Dream

Improving lives: Ensuring the academic success of low-income adults

Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework

Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth

National HIRE network: Resources and assistance: Indiana

The disposable worker: Living in a job-loss economy

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment

Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Earnings by attainment

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report

Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce

Database of 21st century skills assessments

Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

Digest of Education Statistics

The status of working families in Indiana: 2006 update

Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree

Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

Hendricks College Network

Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child

Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience

Action plan: Educators/Policymakers

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students

Effective multicultural curriculum transformation in "advanced" mathematics and "hard" sciences

Educational opportunity for all?

Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

Waiting for Sputnik: Basic research and strategic competition

Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance

Institute for Educational Leadership

Nontraditional undergraduates

Statement of the national summit on competitiveness: Investing in America's future

Women on the rise

Bridge program planning guide

Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

Windows on achievement and inequality

The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand

Who graduates in California?

Racial disparities and the new federalism

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Quality counts 2008

Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing

Education and economic mobility

Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors

College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education

Accelerated developmental education project

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

Child care and development block grant participation in 2005

Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education

Education and economic competitiveness

SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs

How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002

Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda

Learning in a new key

Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world

Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education

Reaching all children? Understanding early care and education participation among immigrant families

Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement

Encouraging girls in math and science

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

Orphan Foundation of America

Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

The minds of boys

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning

How diversity affects teaching and learning

Diversity and the college curriculum: How colleges and universities are preparing students for a changing world

Leading by example

Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

Accelerated learning for all

The benefits of racial/ethnic student groups: A psychologist explains

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

Student African American Brotherhood

Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP

Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

Graduate Retention Program

Indiana's occupational employment outlook to 2012

What's wrong with guys?

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Education and public safety

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools

Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools

Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report

Distance learning and adults with disabilities

States' progress toward high school restructuring

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

2002 State new economy index

How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students

The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana

Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future

Tough choices or tough times: The report of the new commission on the skills of the American workforce

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Lifelong learning accounts: Creating a partnership in lifelong learning

The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success

Schools to watch

National forum to accelerate middle grades reform

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency

Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future

The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society

Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend

An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace

The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns

Education pays 2004: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Is more better? The impact of postsecondary education on the social and economic well-being of American society

Disconnected youth: Educational pathways to reconnection

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

Lumina Foundation for Education

Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report

The educational, social, and economic benefits of making informed and considered career decisions

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college

How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth

Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend

Work first, study second: Adult undergraduates who combine employment and postsecondary enrollment

Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success

Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education

Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers

The broader societal benefits of higher education

Higher education's contribution to the knowledge economy

Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform

Help wanted: Advanced education and the changing workforce

The looming workforce crisis: Preparing American workers for 21st century competition

State higher education finance: FY 2004

Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence

Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement

Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students

The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else

Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students

ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale

Sample state legislation to extend foster care, adoption, and guardianship protections, services, and payments to young adults age 18 and over

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas

SREB/Go Alliance

The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)

College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success

The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness

Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success

FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success

A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies

Help wanted: Postsecondary education and training required

Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative

Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Time to Completion Web Site

Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'

Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students

A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes

Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success

Deciding on postsecondary education

Value of a college education (calculator)

Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Pathways to economic mobility: Key indicators

A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness

A developmental perspective on workplace readiness: Preparing high school students for success

National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference

The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning

Transparency by design

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Breakthrough Collaborative

How much are college students borrowing?

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

Field guide for improving student success

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

Projections of education statistics to 2018

College readiness and high school-to-college success

ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely

America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond

Wising up: How government can partner with business to increase skills and advance low-wage workers

The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners

Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool

Diverse issues in higher education

National Institute for Literacy

College For Every Student

Anderson University: ADVANCE

A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents

Learn More Indiana: Adult learners

Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs

Indiana University Kokomo: Project Complete

Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment

A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)

Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer

Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college

State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

Schools, skills, and synapses

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary

STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers

Young, underemployed, and optimistic: Coming of age, slowly, in a tough economy

Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

Cracking the credit hour

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas

Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states

Downward mobility from the middle class: Waking up from the American Dream

5 Education factors in focus

Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34

From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

Pat Tillman Foundation

Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly

Information constraints and financial aid policy

The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations

Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive

Adolescent literacy

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts

American Association of Community Colleges 2011 Advocacy Toolkit Factsheet

Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy

Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities

An economy that works: Job creation and America's future

Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?

STEM: Good jobs now and for the future

Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges

En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families

Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)

FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success

GEAR UP Data: An information center of data, research, and analysis on GEAR UP

The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know

Everybody ready for college

Steps taken on the path forward

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

Research support for school counseling

A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students

Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma

A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools

Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?

Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education

Closing the gap between high school and college

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011

The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps

A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland

Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions

College completion toolkit

Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future

Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college

Student success in higher education

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools

Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions

How college pricing undermines financial aid

The degree qualifications profile

A detection model of college withdrawal

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education

Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010

Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education

From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

Scaling community college interventions

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

2011 Kids count data book: State profiles of child well-being:

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates

Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards

Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success

After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality

Five ways education pays initiative

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators

Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders

Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

Improving the odds for failing schools

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

StudentMentor.org

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning

Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads

Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report

Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030

Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes

Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states

A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world

Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08

Trends in student aid 2011

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0

Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures

Three policies to reduce time to degree

NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide

Digest of Education Statistics 2011

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"

Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas

Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)

Latino college completion in 50 states

One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools

Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices

Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

Solutions for America: Recommendations for the President and Congress from: Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core

College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet

The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)

Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates

Trends in student aid 2012

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men

2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

The Working Poor Families Project

The future workforce of Indiana

Black Alliance for Educational Options

Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives

Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Tapping America's Potential

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

Goshen College: Degree-completion programs

University of Indianapolis: School for Adult Learning

Oakland City University: School of Adult and Extended Learning

Marian College: Marian's Adult Programs (MAP)

Calumet College of St. Joseph: Adult Undergraduate Accelerated Programs

Center for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning

Indiana R&D 2008: Meeting the global challenge for innovation

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards

Indiana University: Adult Student Resources

Indiana college success coalition

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

College for working adults

The Fortune Society: Prisoner Re-entry

National Center for Family Literacy

The Workforce Alliance

I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

What do we know about the economic benefits of the GED? A synthesis of evidence from recent research

From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

Young workers: A lost decade

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

IPEDS Data Center

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Access to Learning

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Developmental Education Toolkit

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters

Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals

Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 - Education provisions

Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Education watch 2009

Educational policies for integrating college competencies and workforce needs: Cases from Brazil, Mongolia, Ukraine, and the United States

Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education

Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

ACE Online Information Center

Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement

The work-based learning self assessment tool

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada

Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

Pathways to College Network

Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers

Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America

Paving the way through paid internships: A proposal to expand educational and economic opportunities for low-income college students

Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.

Council for Exceptional Children

Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)

Toward reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from New York City's conditional cash transfer program

Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community

Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions

A balance sheet at 30 months: How the great recession has changed life in America

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET): Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)

College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08

A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants

Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned

Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students

Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways

Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007

CollegeMeasures.org

Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

Building an early childhood professional development system

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

American FactFinder

Does public funding for higher education matter?

Bridge Partnership

Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers

Access to the Baccalaureate initiative: A clear path to college

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

The connection collection: School-family-community connections database

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college

High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities

Community College Research Center

Foundation for excellent schools

Quintessential Careers college planning resources

The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators

Education success program: A collaborative approach to an old challenge

Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured

Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

National High School Center

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report

Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: How perceptions of costs and benefits affect access to education

Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Data sources for improving college access and success

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges

Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success

The investment payoff: A 50 state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education.

On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college

What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education

Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs

The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how

Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education

Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students

1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients and their opinions about education in 2003

School relationships foster success for African American students

Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools

Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Economic diversity on campus

Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences

The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law

Correctional education facts

Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners

Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities

Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

The Indiana workforce: An employer's perspective

Indiana department of education: Division of adult education

Collaborative efforts in student retention: A snapshot of best practices across the nation

Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices

State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians

Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid

Miles to go: Louisiana

Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Colorado Reports

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

Preparing Indiana for the 21st Century

Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices

College Access: Indiana

Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report

A postsecondary resource guide for students with psychiatric disabilities

In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities

Translations for success

Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years

Three-year graduation rates for associate students

Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree

Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana

Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college

Homework helper: Help your child take control

Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience

Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school

National defense education and innovation initiative: Meeting America's economic and security challenges in the twenty-first century

For better science, just add color

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites

IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation

The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance

Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college

Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature

Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers

Preparing for success: How Head Start helps children with disabilities and their families

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Programme for international assessment (PISA): 2006 Results

Millennials talk politics: A study of college student political engagement

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)

Career pathways: A strategy for transforming America's workforce education systems to support economic growth

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives

Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families

Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005