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Author(s):Weeter, C., and Martin, M.
Title:Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Source:http://www.nyec.org/content/documents/2-CROSS-S...
Date:2011
Organization:National Youth Employment Coalition
Short Description:This brief is designed to assist community and state leaders, youth advocates, educators, and other stakeholders interested in improving or expanding upon the options for struggling students and out-of-school youth.
Annotation:This brief is designed to assist community and state leaders, youth advocates, educators, and other stakeholders interested in improving or expanding upon the options for struggling students and out-of-school youth. It provides background on important aspects of cross-system collaboration to help local- and state-level stakeholders think about where to start, how to assess how their community or state is doing, and how to improve or expand upon work already under way.
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After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Gender inequalities in education
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates
National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
The condition of education 2011
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
America's youth: Transitions to adulthood
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Assessing deeper learning
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
Mobility makers
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Schools to watch
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Miles to go: Louisiana
Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges
Forum guide to education indicators
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends
Projections of education statistics to 2015
Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
What works clearinghouse
Vocational mentoring: An experience-based career mentoring program for high school juniors and seniors at risk of not graduating
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states
Measuring up 2004
Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000
Educational attainment of the population 25 years and over, by state
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Colorado Reports
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
More student success: A systemic solution
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
The national articulation and transfer network
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Center for Law and Social Policy
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
YouthBuild USA
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Time to Completion Web Site
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
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
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Projections of education statistics to 2018
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
The value of value-added data
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
What is "career ready"?
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
What we know about dual enrollment
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
The first year of high school
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession
An examination of the information technology job market
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Cracking the credit hour
Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
A matter of degrees: Tomorrow's fastest growing jobs, and why community college graduates will get them
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
The work-based learning self assessment tool
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
Insuring college failure risk
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
Measuring up 2008
Indiana by the numbers
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Opportunity.gov
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
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
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond
Skills2Compete
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through
The effects of cognitive-behavioral interventions on dropout for youth with disabilities
Encouraging girls in math and science
Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
National Council of La Raza
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
Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Windows on achievement and inequality
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
The education success program
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
The landscape of noncredit workforce education: State policies and community college practices
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
Washington Data and Reports
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Educational Attainment in the United States 2006
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
High school dropouts in America
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
A call to action: Why America must innovate
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Projections of education statistics to 2014
National Dropout Prevention Centers
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
An action agenda for improving America's high schools
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
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
Making good on a promise: What policymakers can do to support the educational persistence of dropouts
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
Institutional graduation rate for 1985 entering cohorts
Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Operation College Promise
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Early warning system middle grades tool
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Bullying and open enrollment
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
On her majesty's school inspection service
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Why access matters: The community college student body
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign
Changing the odds for children and youth community profile: Northern Kentucky: Building a leadership council
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Buying college: What consumers need to know
A sound investment: The community college dividend
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
ESEA Briefing Book
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region
The undereducated American
The false promise of class-size reduction
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time
An economy that works: Job creation and America's future
P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
Breaking new ground: Building a national workforce skills credentialing system
What do you want in an afterschool program?
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah
From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Understanding the working college student
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
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
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
The connection between health and high school dropout
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
Community College 2.0
Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
Building an early childhood professional development system
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
RTI classification tool and resource locator
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Response to Intervention policy
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
What does research say about 21st century skills?
SparkAction.org
Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories
National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET): Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures
High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007
Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale
Center on Education and the Workforce
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Paving the way through paid internships: A proposal to expand educational and economic opportunities for low-income college students
Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
A next social contract for the primary years of education
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Developmental education in community colleges
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Education pays 2010
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Grantmakers for Education
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training
Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
The degree qualifications profile
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Operation Military Kids
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
The Future Ready Project
Dual enrollment for high school students
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Early college designs
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Scaling community college interventions
Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Align new policies with existing efforts to collaborate
Research support for school counseling
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
College completion toolkit
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
On the road to success
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Oregon Mentors evaluation instrument toolkit
Evaluate mentoring programs
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
American Association of Community Colleges 2011 Advocacy Toolkit Factsheet
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
Redefining your success: The role of adolescent connectedness in demonstrating mentoring impact
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Hard times: College majors, unemployment and earnings: Not all college degrees are created equal
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
The hidden costs of community colleges
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Revamping the teacher evaluation process
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Hearing on non-traditional students
Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Just for the kids
College learning for the new global century
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements
Accelerated learning for all
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Collegiate learning assessement project
Program helps at-risk students succeed
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
Education and incarceration
Correctional education facts
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Dropout rates in the United States: 2004
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Final report of the NISS/ESSI task force on graduation, completion, and dropout indicators
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
The real truth about low graduation rates: An evidence-based commentary
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
The performance of at-risk youth as tutors
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
College success programs
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
The path to prosperity: A policy of investment
Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
25 Steps to effective developmental education
The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Graduate Retention Program
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Indiana college completion rates 2007
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Forging new partnerships: Adult and developmental education in community colleges
Addressing the needs of adult learners
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Economic mobility project
Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
Breaking through: Factsheet
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
A college access contract
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development
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
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
The real technology challenge
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The Kalamazoo Promise
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda
Effective instruction: An inconspicuous strategy for dropout prevention
I-STEM Resource Network
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Indiana R&D 2008: Meeting the global challenge for innovation
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
The state of American manhood
Institute for a Competitive Workforce
The Workforce Alliance
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2006
College access and success state data
21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide
Economic state of young America
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Collaborative for acadmic, social, and emotional learning (CASEL)
The study of implementation in school-based preventative interventions: Theory, research, and practice
Background on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Council of the Great City Schools
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Estimating the social value of higher education: Willingness to pay for community and technical colleges
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
Commonwealth Corporation
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
Flexible learning options for adult students
Doing What Works - Research based education practices online
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
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
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models
Think again: The connection between education and true independence
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
Meeting the invention challenge
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators
Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
The consequences of dropping out of high school: Joblessness and jailing for high school dropouts and the high cost for taxpayers
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery
BC AVID: Early implementation report
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
The economic case for higher education
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Healthcare
The American middle class, income inequality, and the strength of our economy: New evidence in economics
Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
A systemic approach to implementing response to intervention in three Colorado high schools
The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries
Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011
Adult college completion toolkit
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Regardless of the cost, college still matters
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
Common measures for college access and success
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary
Learning what it takes: An initial look at how schools are using early warning data and collaborative response teams to keep all students on track to success