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Author(s):Smith, M.
Title:Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Source:http://www.gettingpastgo.org/docs/Acct-Brief.pdf
Date:2011
Organization:Getting Past Go
Short Description:This brief contributes to the policy discussion regarding innovation in remedial and developmental education by mapping the landscape in this area and describing promising strategies for evaluating remedial policy and program effectiveness.
Annotation:To ensure student success and persistence on to college-level work, states must effectively use data and performance accountability to drive innovation in remedial and developmental education. This brief contributes to the policy discussion by mapping the remedial and developmental education landscape and describing promising strategies for evaluating remedial policy and program effectiveness.
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Accountability and Productivity (Postsecondary)
Community Colleges
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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
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The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
The economic value of opportunity youth
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Progress and gaps in college preparation policy
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Developmental Education Toolkit
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
College access and success state data
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
State future workforce gap summaries
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Measuring up 2008
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
More student success: A systemic solution
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
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
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
YMCA
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
Quality counts 2008
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
The male achievement gap in Indiana
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Benchmarks: Indicators of effective educational practice
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Using posttesting to show the effectiveness of developmental/remedial college courses
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Retooling career and technical education
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Access to success initiative
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
The Breakthrough High School project
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Measuring up 2006
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
Just for the kids
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success
Data sources for improving college access and success
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
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
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Growing What Works Database
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
The breaking through practice guide
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
The nature of innovation in the community college
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
The effects of public support on college attainment
College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
I-STEM Resource Network
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Education Equality Project
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Improving the odds for failing schools
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Cohort default rates in context
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
5 Education factors in focus
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
2012 National survey of school counselors
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
An examination of the information technology job market
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
CollegeMeasures.org
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
They rallying call: Bring game changing results to developmental education: The colloquium on state policy support for developmental education innovation
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
The case for change in college admissions
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
National Coalition for College Completion
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Student success in higher education
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Research support for school counseling
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Latino college completion: California
Impacting college-going and completion rates in your community: Taking a systems approach
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Student progression through developmental sequences in community colleges
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
A detection model of college withdrawal
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
The US STEM education model (simulation)
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
The College Completion Agenda
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Grantmakers for Education
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education
Understanding the working college student
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
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Adult college completion toolkit
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
What is "career ready"?
The condition of education 2012 (Website)
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations
2012 SREB Annual Report
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
Ramp-up to Readiness
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Operation College Promise
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Western Policy Exchanges
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
IPEDS Data Center
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Summer Search
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
How much are college students borrowing?
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Gateway to College
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Schools, skills, and synapses
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Flexible learning options for adult students
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
College For Every Student
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
College for all?
The Condition of Education 2010
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
SREB/Go Alliance
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Time to Completion Web Site
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
A cost estimate of standards-based remediation in a community college developmental education program
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
High school remediation
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
Getting students ready for college and careers
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
Does public funding for higher education matter?
The art of student retention
Bridge Partnership
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
Examining college remediation trends in Indiana
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
College success programs
Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Postsecondary education opportunity
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
An action agenda for improving America's high schools
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
School relationships foster success for African American students
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education
Schools to watch
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
Miles to go: Louisiana
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
A call to action: Why America must innovate
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
School Redesign Network
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
National Council of La Raza
Student loans and public accountability
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
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
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Education and economic competitiveness
Workers need training, not tough talk
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
Who graduates in California?
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
The real technology challenge
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Breaking through: Factsheet
Windows on achievement and inequality
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
McNair scholar handbook
The minds of boys
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Project Complete
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
New England Journal of Higher Education

 

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