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Author(s):Boser, U.
Title:Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
Source:http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/01/...
Date:2011
Organization:Center for American Progress
Short Description:This report is the culmination of a yearlong effort to study the efficiency of the nation’s public education system and includes the first-ever attempt to evaluate the productivity of almost every major school district in the country.
Annotation:This report is the culmination of a yearlong effort to study the efficiency of the nation’s public education system and includes the first-ever attempt to evaluate the productivity of almost every major school district in the country. In the business world, the notion of productivity describes the benefit received in exchange for effort or money expended. This project measures the academic achievement a school district produces relative to its educational spending, while controlling for factors outside a district’s control, such as cost of living and students in poverty.
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Achievement Gap
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Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
America's private public schools
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
What role do school leaders play in turning around low-performing schools?
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
The current status of school counseling outcome research
RTI Progress monitoring tools chart
Tiered intervention on the high school level
Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Assessing deeper learning
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Revamping the teacher evaluation process
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Expanded measures of school performance
Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
Gender inequalities in education
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
A dozen facts about k-12 education
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom
ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
The road to high-quality early education
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
What we know about dual enrollment
ETS: The Achievement Gap (website)
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
California District Report Cards
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
8th Annual AP report to the nation
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
What savings are produced by moving to a four-day school week?
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
New school year brings steep cuts in state funding for schools
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Measuring inequity in school funding
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Parents want to know
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Parent engagement toolkit
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
Planning a school-based mentoring program
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
The condition of education 2011
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Everybody ready for college
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Now what? Imperatives and options for common core implementation and governance
Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs
Focus on the alternative school calendar: Year-round school programs and update on the four-day school week
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Closing the gap between high school and college
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Creating jobs and supporting homeless students
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Mind the (other) gap: State profiles
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
State test score trends through 2007-08: Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
State test score trends through 2007-08, Part 5: Are there differences in achievement between boys and girls?
Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
How do middle-school grade configurations impact student achievement and behavior?
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
The Everyone Graduates Center
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Making high school students into "college material"
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Whole-school reform: Transforming the nation's low-performing high schools
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
Field guide for improving student success
Educational Policy Improvement Center
The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
Using student achievement data to support instructional decision making
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
No Excuses University Network
Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers
Closing the achievement gap: School, community, family connections
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Dropout prevention practice guide
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
School reform and improvement database
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
The ASCA national model
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Education issues 2007
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Opportunity in America: The role of education
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Schools to watch
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge
Primary progress, secondary challenge
What works clearinghouse
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
2012 National survey of school counselors
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured
Learning to earn
Pathways to college access and success
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
What works clearinghouse: Middle school math
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
The family: America's smallest school
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
School Redesign Network
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
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
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
African American students and U.S. high schools
Latino students and U.S. high schools
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
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
Who graduates in California?
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
Quality counts 2008
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Middle-class schools for all
Windows on achievement and inequality
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Evolving No Child Left Behind
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
Facts for education advocates
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
How bold is "bold?" Responding to Race to the Top with a bold, actionable plan on teacher effectiveness
Standards in practice: An instructional gap analysis
School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of comprehensive school reform programs
Beyond the bake sale: A community-based relational approach to parent engagement in schools
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
National education standards: Getting beneath the surface
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Improving accountability in public education
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Council of the Great City Schools
National Center for Summer Learning
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs
Ready by 21
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools
NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (State Reports)
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (National Report)
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Empowering effective teachers: Strategies for implementing reforms
Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Achievement gap patterns of grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students in reading and mathematics
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
What do you want in an afterschool program?
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
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
Are bad schools immortal?
Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
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
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
School turnaround teachers: Competencies for success
The breaking through practice guide
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
No time to delay: Delivering the statewide data systems California's students deserve
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools
The achievement gap where you live
Response to Intervention resources for high schools
Principal-counselor toolkit
The hidden costs of community colleges
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement
Federal efforts to improve the lowest-performing schools: District views on school improvement grants
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Dual enrollment for high school students
Early warning indicator systems
Number of instructional days/hours in the school year
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Congressional budget action for fiscal year 2012 and its impact on education funding
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?
Supporting education policy and practice through common data standards: A policymaker's guide
End-of-course exams
Adolescent literacy
Civic engagement through digital citizenship: Engaging youth in active, participatory citizenship
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
The economic value of opportunity youth
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness
Common Core implementation workbook
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
The nation's report card: Science 2011
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color
Third grade reading policies
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Teaching in a learner-centered environment powered by digital learning
Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
State high school exit exams: A policy in transition
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards
Interactive learning online at public universities: Evidence from randomized trials
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Evaluate mentoring programs
New policies should align with existing goals and plans for children and youth
Duration and intensity: No time for cutting corners
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Opportunities and obstacles: Implementing stimulus-funded school improvement grants in Maryland, Michigan, and Idaho
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
A big apple for educators: New York City's experiment with schoolwide performance bonuses
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
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
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
RTI Action Network: High school resources
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Making graduation a priority
A five year comparison between an extended school year and a conventional year school: Effects on academic achievement
SparkAction.org
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs
Center on Innovation and Improvement
Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies
Student victimization in U.S. schools: Results from the 2007 school crime supplement to the national crime victimization survey
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Understanding the common core state standards
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Cracks in the ivory tower? The views of education professors circa 2010
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
School connectedness and meaningful student participation
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
Shifting trends in special education
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)
Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
Funding education equitably: The "comparability provision" the move to fair and transparent school budgeting systems
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Measuring adequate yearly progress: What "other" factors besides reading and math
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
The US STEM education model (simulation)
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community
The degree qualifications profile
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later
The impact of teacher experience
PreK-Grade 3: Which reading and literacy practices matter most?
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
Achieve Standards Alignment Tool
Gold Star School Counseling
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:
Alignment and the states: Three approaches to aligning the national assessment of educational progress with state assessments, other assessements, and standards
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
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
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Retaining Teacher Talent Study
The nature of innovation in the community college
Condition of Education 2009
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education
Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?
The connection between health and high school dropout
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Gallup student poll national report
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Interventions for struggling readers
The President's Forum
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)
Breakthrough Collaborative
Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies
Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
College readiness and high school-to-college success
The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Pathways to College Network
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
Gauging the gaps: A deeper look at student achievement
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Mapping state proficiency standards onto NAEP scales: 2005-2007
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Schools, skills, and synapses
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
Collaborative for acadmic, social, and emotional learning (CASEL)
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Science and mathematics education indicators
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Indiana Partnerships Center
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Learn and Serve America
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
I-STEM Resource Network
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Condition of education 2008
Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
For every 100 girls...
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
The future of public education in New Orleans
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
Encouraging girls in math and science
Ohio's career development program
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
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
What works for Latino students
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
The nation's report card: Civics 2006
Aligned expectations: A closer look at college admissions and placement tests
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Status of education in rural America
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
Culture of evidence
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Ensuring academic success for English learners
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment
Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program
OECD Programme for international student assessment
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
Locating the dropout crisis: Which high schools produce the nation’s dropouts? Where are they located? Who attends them
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Identifying and implementing educational practices supported by rigorous evidence: A user friendly guide
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students
Achievement in America
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
American student achievement institute
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training

 

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