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Author(s):Scrivener, S., and Coghlan, E.
Title:Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Source:http://www.mdrc.org/publications/585/policybrie...
Date:2011
Organization:MDRC
Short Description:Opening Doors provides some of the first rigorous evidence that a range of interventions can improve educational outcomes for community college students.
Annotation:MDRC helped develop and evaluated four distinct programs based on the following approaches: financial incentives, reforms in instructional practices, and enhancements in student services. Opening Doors provides some of the first rigorous evidence that a range of interventions can improve educational outcomes for community college students. This policy brief describes the different strategies tested, discusses what MDRC has learned from Opening Doors, and offers some suggestions to policymakers and practitioners for moving forward.
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Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
College success programs
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
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
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Adult learners and new traditions in higher education
Collegiate learning assessement project
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Nontraditional undergraduates
Accelerated learning for all
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates
Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
Measuring up 2006
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later
One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
Adult persistence and success in higher education: A brief annotated bibliography of online resources
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
New measures of student success in public higher education
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
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
College access and success state data
Committing to student engagement: Reflections on CCSSE's first five years: 2007 findings
Access to success initiative
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
National Council of La Raza
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
New England Journal of Higher Education
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
College InSight
Getting past go: Rebuilding the remedial education bridge to college success
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
The Condition of Education 2010
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
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education
Research on retention and attrition
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Rising by Degrees
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Adult College Completion Network
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Everybody ready for college
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
What works in student retention 2010
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
Education pays 2010
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
Common measures for college access and success
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Healthcare
Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Operation College Promise
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Latino college completion: Texas
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Accomodating student veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder: Tips for campus faculty and staff
Think College Indiana!
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county
Three policies to reduce time to degree
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Snapshot report: Mobility
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
The condition of education 2012 (Website)
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Cracking the credit hour
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
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
State policy profiles for completion by design
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
Grantmakers for Education
The College Completion Agenda
The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
Closing the gap between high school and college
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
The degree qualifications profile
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Time to Completion Web Site
A shared agenda: Action alert for community leaders
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Education & the military spouse: The long road to success
Making high school students into "college material"
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
Condition of education 2008
The Fortune Society: Prisoner Re-entry
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
More student success: A systemic solution
Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Enrollment status and outcomes
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
Breaking through: Factsheet
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school
The national articulation and transfer network
Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care
Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives
Community colleges under stress
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Gateway to College
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Flexible learning options for adult students
Measuring up 2008
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Summer Search
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
Data sources for improving college access and success
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Male retention at the community college
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
The first year experience: Are we making it any better
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
The art of student retention
Annotated bibliography: Perspectives in postsecondary education programs and student support interventions
En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001
College learning for the new global century
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Adult education participation in 2004-05
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Distance learning and adults with disabilities
YMCA
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Framing new terrain: Older adults & higher education
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
What works for Latino students
Lumina Foundation lessons: Places - and faces - that foster student success
Building learning communities: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration and Kingsborough community college
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
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