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Author(s):Alliance for Excellent Education
Title:Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Source:http://www.all4ed.org/files/TransformingHSs.pdf
Date:2011
Organization:Alliance for Excellent Education
Short Description:The national policy community recognizes that in order for the United States to compete in a global knowledge economy, the concentration and distribution of effective teachers in secondary schools must be dramatically improved. Fundamental policy questions remain unanswered, however, about what approaches are best to ensure teaching quality.
Annotation:Teaching quality is recognized as the most powerful school-based factor in student learning. This does not mean, however, that all teachers have powerful effects on student learning. Considerable evidence points to the enormous variation in teaching practice as a fundamental problem in improving high schools. The national policy community recognizes that in order for the United States to compete in a global knowledge economy, the concentration and distribution of effective teachers in secondary schools must be dramatically improved. Fundamental policy questions remain unanswered, however, about what approaches are best to ensure teaching quality.
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Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
No Excuses University Network
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
School reform and improvement database
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Dropout prevention practice guide
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Literacy instruction in the content areas: Getting to the core of middle and high school improvement
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
Differential grading standards among high schools
Learning in a new key
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Encouraging girls in math and science
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school
Turning Points
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
The American diploma project: Overview of research
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Recent STEM initiatives
Joint platform for education reform
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
The numbers we need: Bringing balanced scorecards to education data
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
P-20 governance
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Cracks in the ivory tower? The views of education professors circa 2010
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning
TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Getting teacher evaluation right: A brief for policymakers
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
The first year of high school
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
A dozen facts about k-12 education
Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Data quality campaign 2012 snapshot
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Duration and intensity: No time for cutting corners
Improving the odds for failing schools
State education agency funding and staffing in the education reform era
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
California District Report Cards
The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district
Supporting education policy and practice through common data standards: A policymaker's guide
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Reduction in force policies
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Early warning system middle grades tool
Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Getting better at teacher preparation and state accountability: Strategies, innovations, and challenges under the federal race to the top program
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
Evaluate mentoring programs
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
Federal efforts to improve the lowest-performing schools: District views on school improvement grants
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
The hidden costs of community colleges
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
Expanded measures of school performance
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
10 Pieces of advice from students for teachers
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
The College Match Program
Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
The economic value of higher teacher quality
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
The impact of teacher experience
PreK-Grade 3: Which reading and literacy practices matter most?
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Building an early childhood professional development system
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response
Reading next: A vision for action and research in middle and high school literacy
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
What works for Latino students
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Education issues 2007
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
NCLB and high schools
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Closing the expectations gap 2007: An annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and work
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Resource guide for action: Transforming high schools for all youth
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
AIM
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Improving quality and equity in education: Inspriring a new century of excellence in teaching and assessment
Culture of evidence
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Improving math performance
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
I-STEM Resource Network
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
What every college access practitioner should know: About the importance of commitment
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Background and context for equity audits
Using student achievement data to support instructional decision making
Educational Policy Improvement Center
College readiness and high school-to-college success
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
The President's Forum
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
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Breakthrough Collaborative
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Council of the Great City Schools
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
The accountability illusion
EdVisions Cooperative
The cost of small high schools: A literature review
The Equity Project
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Education watch 2009
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (State Reports)
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (National Report)
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
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: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Pathways to College Network
High school remediation
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
The nature of innovation in the community college
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Council for Exceptional Children
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
SparkAction.org
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
The current status of school counseling outcome research
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Project U-turn
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
The breaking through practice guide
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
Achieve Standards Alignment Tool
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
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
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
Retaining teacher talent: Teaching for a living
Retaining Teacher Talent Study
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
Transforming schools to meet the needs of students: Improving school quality and increasing learning time in ESEA
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009
Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
Sizing up state standards: 2008
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Schools, skills, and synapses
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
The Everyone Graduates Center
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
Seize the moment: The need for a comprehensive federal investment in adolescent literacy
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
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
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
If small is not enough...The characteristics of successful small high schools in Chicago
National Center for Learning Disabilities
More student success: A systemic solution
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
HomeworkSpot
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
All Kinds of Minds
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Students as allies in improving their schools
First ask, then listen: How to get your students to help you teach them better
The Breakthrough High School project
Retooling career and technical education
Planning resources for teachers in small high schools
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
A science-based framework for early childhood policy
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Who graduates in California?
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
Career preparation curriculum
Are public schools really losing their "best"? Assessing the career transitions of teachers and their implications for the quality of the teacher workforce
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
All over the map: State policies to improve the high school
English language learners: Boosting academic achievement
Evaluating the effectiveness of technology in our schools
Making middle grades work
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores
An action agenda for improving America's high schools
Pathways to college access and success
National High School Center
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models
Accelerated learning for all
Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness
Expanding learning time in high schools
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Developing the STEM education pipeline
EPAS®: A system that works
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
College access: A framework for systemic program development
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
No child left behind: What it means for parents
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Colorado Reports
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Just for the kids
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Mathematics and science education in the states
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students
Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:
Response to Intervention resources for high schools
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools
The Condition of Education 2010
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Better benefits: Reforming teacher pensions for a changing workforce
The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010
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
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
What do you want in an afterschool program?
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
The 2010 Brown Center report on American education
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Digital learning now! Ten elements of high quality digital learning
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
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
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
The condition of education 2011
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Early college designs
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Dual enrollment for high school students
Early warning indicator systems
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Special education in high school redesign
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Data for action 2011
Teaching children well: New evidence-based approaches to teacher professional development and training
Transforming education in America
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
On the road to success
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
After the stimulus money ends: The status of state k-12 education funding and reforms
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
The complexity of college and career readiness
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Third grade reading policies
Accountability issues to watch under NCLB waivers
Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color
Cracking the credit hour
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success

 

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