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Author(s):	Toldson, I.
Title:	Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
Source:	http://2025bmb.org/pdf/education/breakingbarrie...
Date:	2008
Organization:	Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Short Description:	This study explored factors that statistically improve educational outcomes for African-American males by analyzing academic success indicators from four national surveys.
Annotation:	This study explored factors that statistically improve educational outcomes for African-American males by analyzing academic success indicators from four national surveys. The domain areas explored included personal and emotional factors, family factors, social and environmental factors and school factors. Linear relationships between academic achievement and external factors are the cornerstone of the findings. A linear relationship emerges when academic achievement improved, as the level of a characteristic or asset (e.g., participation in sports or praise from teachers) increased or decreased.
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Achievement Gap

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College Access

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Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice

American student achievement institute

Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools

Our impoverished view of education reform

Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms

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

Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study

Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education

Raising minority academic achievement: A compendium of education programs and practices

College access: From the inside out

Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments

Education watch online

The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare

A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect

Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991

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

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

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

States' progress toward high school restructuring

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

Helping Teens Succeed

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

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

The Breakthrough High School project

Center for native education

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Access to success initiative

The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools

Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends

ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners

The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act

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

National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

McNair scholar handbook

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

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

Raising boys' achievement

New England Journal of Higher Education

Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

Facts for education advocates

Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools

Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school

Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge

Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)

Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success

Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs

A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal

A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals

Deciding on postsecondary education

Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

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

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

Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials

How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth

Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement

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

No Excuses University Network

Growing What Works Database

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

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

Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes

Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools

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

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

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system

Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)

Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources

Afterschool Alliance

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

College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs

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

Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion

Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

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

Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis

School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth

School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments

Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

The US STEM education model (simulation)

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities

Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

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

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures

Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning

America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits

Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms

The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring

Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)

Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges

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

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

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

Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings

Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior

Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program

Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography

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

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment

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

College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)

Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district

Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?

Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid

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

Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future

Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth

Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

Which achievement gap?

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

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

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative

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

The National Indian Education Study

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document

The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence

Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools

RTI classification tool and resource locator

SREB/Go Alliance

The achievement gap where you live

Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level

Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools

The Condition of Education 2010

Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers

SparkAction.org

The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities

Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey

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

Changing schools: A look at student mobility trends in Chicago public schools since 1995

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

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

Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools

Common Core State Standards Initiative

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

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

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

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief

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

Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement

Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California

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

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

Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts

How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

YourWordsToday.org

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)

High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California

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

Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

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

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools

Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems

Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step

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

A descriptive study of urban school counseling

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

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

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 success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

White students are racially isolated

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Condition of education 2008

I-STEM Resource Network

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

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

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

The future of public education in New Orleans

Racial disparities and the new federalism

Race, schools, and neighborhoods: Reducing barriers to achievement

Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates

Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults

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

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

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

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

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

Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans

A college access contract

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

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

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

The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Improving math performance

The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools

Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Colorado Reports

Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Ensuring academic success for English learners

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

National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

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

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

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction

Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs

Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities

National College Access Program Directory

Education and incarceration

Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card

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

Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males

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

Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program

Bridges to Success

Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program

Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative

National Association of Street Schools

School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success

Bridge Partnership

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

Gender gap grows

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

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

The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth

Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students

Latino youth and the pathway to college

Education dedicated to black males still relevant

All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps

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

Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

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

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

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

2012 National survey of school counselors

"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence

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

What we know about dual enrollment

The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies

Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens

The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

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

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

SREB State progress reports 2012

Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

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

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

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years

Transforming education in America

Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement

Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved

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

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals

The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels

Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative

Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars

The undereducated American

A guide for African-American parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region

Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways

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

Operation Military Kids

When school stability requires transportation: State considerations

National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

Kids Count Data Center

Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11

Assessing deeper learning

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

Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM

Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates

Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions

Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings

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

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

Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults

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

A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system

Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth

Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements

Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory

The nation's report card: Science 2011

What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?

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

Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010

No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications

College Greenlight

Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color

Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts

Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

California District Report Cards

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy

Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?

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

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

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

Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative

Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

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

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison

How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education

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

The American diploma project: Overview of research

High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

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

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

Annotated bibliography of minority achievement

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

Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid

Reflecting on reconnecting males to higher education

Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education

Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students

Success for All Foundation

Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school

Indianapolis urban league: Campaign for African American achievement

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First

How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006

America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future

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

Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps

Voices in urban education

Jonathan Kozol interview transcript: Source material for "Segregation and its Calamitous Effects, America's "Apartheid" Schools"

Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth

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

CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Indian students and college preparation

Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education

An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students

Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools

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

CPS: A leader in AP growth

The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics

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

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

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

Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups

Timing and duration of student participation in special education in the primary grades

Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools

Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college

Accelerated learning for all

Expanding learning time in high schools

A new way on school integration

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

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English

Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version

Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed

Latino students and U.S. high schools

The family: America's smallest school

Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine

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

Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system

Knocking at the college door: California state report

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

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students

Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool

Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)

The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families

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

Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes

Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future

School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment

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

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

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

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

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

Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

Fixing No Child Left Behind

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

The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

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

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

Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools

The Study Skills Guide for Students

A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000

Windows on achievement and inequality

Community colleges under stress

Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system

College access and success state data

Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance

Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up

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

What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

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

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

The study of implementation in school-based preventative interventions: Theory, research, and practice

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English

Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools

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

A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

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

The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood

Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders

Pathways to College Network

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

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

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform

Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

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

A next social contract for the primary years of education

Achievement gap patterns of grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students in reading and mathematics

Mind the (other) gap: State profiles

Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs

Complete College America

Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention

Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out

Council for Exceptional Children

National Center for Summer Learning

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

Breakthrough Collaborative

Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)

Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress

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

From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus

The Everyone Graduates Center

Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century

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

College readiness and high school-to-college success

The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools

Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition

Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states

It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs

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

National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states

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

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

What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs

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

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Parent engagement toolkit

National Center on Intervention: RTI state database

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports

The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States

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

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?

Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice

On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards

The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion

Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions

Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism

Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?

What do you want in an afterschool program?

Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students

The impact of teacher experience

Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement

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

Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers

Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education

Improving community college success

Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education

The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade

How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement

Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)

State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities

Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams

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

Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions

Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts

National Coalition for College Completion

Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide

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

Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education

A portrait of school improvement grantees

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

The economic value of higher teacher quality

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?

Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos

A first look at the common core and college and career readiness

Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers

P-20 governance

Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college

I Need a Pencil.com

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

The 2010 Brown Center report on American education

College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?

PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes

Enrollment management, Inc.: External influences on our practice

The nation's report card: Science 2009

Is school funding fair? A national report card

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

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

Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents

Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08

A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book

America's private public schools

National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)

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

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

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:

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

Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning

Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching

Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities

RTI Action Network: High school resources

Tiered intervention on the high school level

Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents

Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)

Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

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

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

Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies

15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention

The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

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

No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio

State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college

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

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

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

Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

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

Field guide for improving student success

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future

Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades

Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans

Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans

Coalition for Evidence-based Policy

The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools

Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates

Interventions for struggling readers

Mythbusting: Breaking down confidentiality and decision-making barriers to meet the education needs of children in foster care

The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?

National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice

Center on Reinventing Public Education

A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states

Council of the Great City Schools

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams

Retaining teacher talent: Convergence and contradictions in teachers' perceptions of policy reform ideas

College InSight

Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

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

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

The nature of innovation in the community college

Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.

A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool

Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

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

College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools

Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission

Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad

Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement

The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes

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

Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

The role of the school counselor in the new era of RTI

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

Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education

The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school

Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed

Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed

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

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

Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it

Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States

Intervention Central

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

The Equity Project

Measuring up 2008

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

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

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

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

If small is not enough...The characteristics of successful small high schools in Chicago

Middle-class schools for all

School reform and improvement database

Setting the record straight: How trendy approaches to college access might or might not be helping low-income students

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance

Diverse issues in higher education

Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

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

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

The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students

Mentors en Español

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color

2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

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

The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

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

Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

The national articulation and transfer network

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

Gates Millenium Scholars Program

Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game

The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college

Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations

Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)

Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

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

Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes

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

Education in the age of accountability: A research focus of the Urban Institute

Busting the myth that poor, urban schools can't succeed

The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students

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

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

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system

What works clearinghouse: English language learners

Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

National Council of La Raza

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

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

The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners

Funding Gaps 2006

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

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

The ASCA national model

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old

Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study

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

Brown at 50: King's dream or Plessy's nightmare

Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education

Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

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

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

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Latinos in secondary education

U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement

Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices

Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score

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

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

Black, White and Brown: Latino school desegragation efforts in the pre- and post- Brown vs. the Board of Education era

IUPUI SAAB summer bridge program

Strategic instruction model

Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access

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

Pathways to college policy forum

High Tech High Foundation

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

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

Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

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

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

After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action

Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors

Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)

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

Talent Development High Schools

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

National forum to accelerate middle grades reform

Kids Count state-level data online

A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth

Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)

Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science

Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth

National Urban League: Campaign for African American Achievement

Knowledge is power program

Pathways to improving practice: Data-driven pre-college outreach programs

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs use data to make decisions

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

Achieving the dream: Community colleges count

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems

Diversity, school, family, and community connections

Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement

Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap

Helping children move from bad schools to good ones

Why segregation matters: Poverty and educational inequality

Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform

What works clearinghouse

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students

Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

First generation college students: A literature review

From risk to opportunity: Fulfilling the educational needs of Hispanic Americans in the twenty-first century

First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars

The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success

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

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Preparing students for success in college

The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

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

Achieving diversity: Race neutral alternatives in American education

College success programs

The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality

A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities

Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions

The early college high school: The initiative at a glance

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it

Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce

A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success

How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

The first year of high school

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

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

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

Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention

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

Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts

One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

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

From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes

How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

Bullying and open enrollment

The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?

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

Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards

State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?

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

Hearing on non-traditional students

Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards

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

State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory

The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda

Expanded measures of school performance

Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids

The Future Ready Project

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

Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning

Latino college completion: California

Think College Indiana!

A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress

Key considerations for serving disconnected youth

Latino college completion: Texas

Early college designs

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