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Author(s):National Center for School Counseling Outcome Research
Title:Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
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Date:2004
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Short Description:Examines Brigman and Campbell's 2003 study of whether a combination of curriculum-based and group-based interventions had a measurable impact on students' standardized test scores.
Annotation:This research brief examines Brigman and Campbell's 2003 study of whether a combination of curriculum-based and group-based interventions with a focus on cognitive and metacognitive skills, social skills, and self-management skills known to be related to school success would have a measurable impact on students’ test scores on a standardized state achievement test.
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Counseling/Guidance
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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion
High School
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
Testing/Assessment/Standardized Test Results

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Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
College admission testing
Just for the kids
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
What works for Latino students
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Data sources for improving college access and success
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
College success programs
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Learning to earn
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
What does research say about 21st century skills?
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
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
For every 100 girls...
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
College access and success state data
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Deciding on postsecondary education
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Summer Search
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Scaling community college interventions
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Ramp-up to Readiness
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
Assessing deeper learning
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Three policies to reduce time to degree
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions
Hearing on non-traditional students
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Improving the odds for failing schools
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
On the road to success
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
8th Annual AP report to the nation
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Western Policy Exchanges
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Cracking the credit hour
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Preparing students to transition from high school to college: A review of the perceptions surrounding college and the challenges students face as they prepare for their collegiate experience
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
What is "career ready"?
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
2012 National survey of school counselors
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
"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
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
A detection model of college withdrawal
The nation's report card: Science 2009
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
The 2010 Brown Center report on American education
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Student success in higher education
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
The undereducated American
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
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
Latino college completion: Florida
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
The condition of education 2011
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
National Coalition for College Completion
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
What works in student retention 2010
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
National Center for Academic Transformation
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
The Condition of Education 2010
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
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
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
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Adult college completion toolkit
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
State high school exit exams: A policy in transition
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
Healthcare
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
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
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Adolescent literacy
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Leveraging data for college completion
What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Mobility makers
Transforming education in America
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Snapshot report: Mobility
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Principal-counselor toolkit
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
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
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
A closer look at the principal-counselor relationship: A survey of principals and counselors
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
The role of the school counselor in the new era of RTI
Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Indiana by the numbers
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
California State University: Early assessment program
Gateway to College
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Global Skills for Global Completion
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Growing What Works Database
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
The challenge of college readiness
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
A shared agenda: Action alert for school superintendents & middle & high school principals
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Pathways to College Network
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
Early college placement testing opportunities in Maine
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Are boys falling behind in academics
When it comes to school, girls rule
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
School relationships foster success for African American students
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Strategic instruction model
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation
Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates
Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth
Reading between the lines: What ACT reveals about college readiness in reading
Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects
Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
College learning for the new global century
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Smart boys, bad grades
Reforming education in Indiana: High achievers speak out
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes
Bridge Partnership
Miles to go: Louisiana
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
The family: America's smallest school
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Postsecondary Access and Success
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Retooling career and technical education
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
High school dropouts in America
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Improving performance on the ACT assessment
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
No child left behind: What it means for parents
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
EPAS®: A system that works
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Alternatives to the grade point average as measures of academic achievement in college
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
High school - Advanced placement
Who graduates in California?
Indiana Department of Education: Career guidance - high school
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Understanding NAEP: Inside the nation's education report card
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
The male achievement gap in Indiana
The education success program
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
If small is not enough...The characteristics of successful small high schools in Chicago
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

 

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