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Author(s):	Forum for Youth Investment
Title:	High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Source:	http://forumfyi.org/files/RB21%20CB26%20Issue%2...
Date:	2010
Organization:	Forum for Youth Investment
Short Description:	High Expectations and Strong Supports Yield Postsecondary Success is the second installment in the Forum for Youth Investment’s Ready by 21, Credentialed by 26 series. This new brief demonstrates that it is in fact possible to insulate the education pipeline for older, vulnerable youth, by providing the supports necessary for their success.
Annotation:	This brief describes how YouthBuild Brockton, as part of YouthBuild USA’s Postsecondary Education Initiative, is partnering with Massasoit Community College to move from dropout recovery into postsecondary completion. It also summarizes research on student supports in higher education and features a conversation with Ann Coles, senior associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy.
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Low-Income Students

P-16 (Pre K - Grade 16) Alignment and Initiatives

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

Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

The economic value of opportunity youth

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges

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

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions

Central Indiana Talent Alliance

A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students

The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams

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

Ready by 21: Making quality count

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

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

A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment

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

Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

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

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

Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students

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

Improving community college success

Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform

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

Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice

Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development

Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

The first year of high school

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

K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program

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

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

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

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

Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education

Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color

Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts

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

A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile

Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds

Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?

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

Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years

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

Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment

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

Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

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

From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes

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

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

Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

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

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance

Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education

Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort

2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states

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

The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery

College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet

Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency

Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges

High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

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

The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress

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

Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis

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

Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative

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

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

Changing the odds for children and youth community profile: Northern Kentucky: Building a leadership council

Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

Closing the expectations gap 2011

Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later

Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations

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

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

Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community

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

State and local policy for reconnecting youth

Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways

Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls

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

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

Early warning system middle grades tool

Bullying and open enrollment

Western Policy Exchanges

Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees

Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion

Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option

Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report

Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

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

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

Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers

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

Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness

Assessing deeper learning

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

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals

Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

Five ways education pays initiative

Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system

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

Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains

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

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

Think College Indiana!

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

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

What works for Latino students

ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006

Engaging students, challenging the odds

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

Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support

Developing the STEM education pipeline

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

Report of Rhode Island case study site visit

Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school

Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

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

Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity

The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders

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

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

One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

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

The American diploma project: Overview of research

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

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report

Student success: Statewide P-16 programs

From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

Network news: Focus on P-16 partnerships

Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library

Pathways to college access and success

A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth

Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships

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

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

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

P-16: Building a cohesive education system from preschool through postsecondary

New England Journal of Higher Education

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

School Redesign Network

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

Quality counts 2008

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Aligning early learning, K-12, and postsecondary systems

Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers

College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students

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

Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders

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

Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers

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

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)

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

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization

Global Skills for Global Completion

Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed

A next social contract for the primary years of education

Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students

Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide

SparkAction.org

Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Recognition and response: Pathways to school success for young children

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

Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it

Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects

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

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

Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity

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

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

Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs

One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

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

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

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments

America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents

Closing the expectations gap 2010

Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better

Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

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

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

Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers

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

Recommendations for state postsecondary data systems: A report from state data experts

Growing What Works Database

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

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

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

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

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

Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans

How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)

Educational Policy Improvement Center

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do

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

Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit

Aligning secondary and postsecondary education: Lessons from the past

BC AVID: Early implementation report

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

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

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

Deciding on postsecondary education

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

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

Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs

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

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions

Can the American high school become an avenue of advancement for all?

Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care

National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

The Everyone Graduates Center

The President's Forum

IPEDS Data Center

Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools

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

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

Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success

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

Are student employment and academic success linked?

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

Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement

Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

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

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

Student Success Skills

Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes

Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders

College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Achieve Standards Alignment Tool

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed

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

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

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

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

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals

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

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials

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

How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it

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

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

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

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

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

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

Understanding the common core state standards

Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue

SREB/Go Alliance

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

Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools

Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document

Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)

IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention

Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates

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

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

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

Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis

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

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

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

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

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

Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students

The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design

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

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

I-STEM Resource Network

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

Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance

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

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

Dropout prevention practice guide

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

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

Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents

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

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

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

Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

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

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

Orphan Foundation of America

Encouraging girls in math and science

Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives

Learning in a new key

The Breakthrough High School project

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

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

What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

More student success: A systemic solution

How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement

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

The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda

Building community learning systems: The Columbus learning center

Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform

NCHEMS information center

What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

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

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students

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

Annotated bibliography: Perspectives in postsecondary education programs and student support interventions

Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

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

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

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

National college access network

School and college partnerships: The missing link

On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development

Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success

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

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

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

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

Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices

Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress

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

Office of Indian education programs

Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities

More states using the ACT as part of alignment efforts

Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

Aligned expectations: A closer look at college admissions and placement tests

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

College access: A framework for systemic program development

Closing the expectations gap 2007: An annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and work

State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools

Scaling community college interventions

Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males

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

Latino college completion: California

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards

The hidden costs of community colleges

A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them

High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges

Early warning indicator systems

The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy

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

Student voices: What makes a great teacher?

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

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

Mobility makers

Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion

Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series

Operation College Promise

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

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

New policies should align with existing goals and plans for children and youth

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed

Transforming education in America

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

Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations

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

Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts

Don't stop collaborating - Just stop creating new collaboratives

Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring

Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education

What do you want in an afterschool program?

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

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

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

PreK-Grade 3: Which reading and literacy practices matter most?

Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement

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

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

Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?

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

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

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

ESEA Briefing Book

Research support for school counseling

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

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

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

Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents

Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training

Align new policies with existing efforts to collaborate

Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

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 full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York

America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits

Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students

The role of mentoring in college access and success

The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance

En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families

Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

College 101 courses for applied learning and student success

Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan

Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer

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

Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools

Adult college completion toolkit

The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

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

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

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career

Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California

Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class

States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications

It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention

The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

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

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

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

Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school

Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education