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Author(s):Pathways to College Network and National College Access Network
Title:The role of mentoring in college access and success
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Date:2011
Organization:Pathways to College Network and National College Access Network
Short Description:The brief, The Role of Mentoring in College Access and Success, authored by the Pathways to College Network (a program directed by IHEP) along with the National College Access Network, distills and synthesizes scholarly research specifically as it pertains to the role of mentoring to promote college access and success.
Annotation:The brief, The Role of Mentoring in College Access and Success, authored by the Pathways to College Network (a program directed by IHEP) along with the National College Access Network, distills and synthesizes scholarly research specifically as it pertains to the role of mentoring to promote college access and success. With an emphasis on implications for practitioners, the brief aims to serve as a tangible resource for individuals from college access programs, youth development organizations, and advocacy. In addition, The Role of Mentoring in College Access and Success features an interview with the leadership of Philadelphia-Futures’ Sponsor-A-Scholar program to share lessons from the field.
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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion
First Generation College Students
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
Low-Income Students
Mentoring
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Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Latino college completion: State series
Pell Institute: TRIO clearinghouse
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Gender inequalities in education
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Who graduates in California?
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
The Breakthrough High School project
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Data sources for improving college access and success
Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Postsecondary education opportunity
Educational needs index
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
Education and incarceration
College learning for the new global century
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
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
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Indiana by the numbers
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
SREB Factbook on higher education
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
The breaking through practice guide
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Center on Education and the Workforce
The Condition of Education 2010
Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
Community colleges under stress
The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Education watch 2009
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors
Excelencia in education
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research
Bridge Partnership
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Measuring up 2006
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Catching the Dream
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
Miles to go: Louisiana
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
Education Trust, Inc
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline
Academic pathways to access and student success
Puente Project
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend
Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
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
Postsecondary Access and Success
School Redesign Network
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Colorado Reports
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
Accelerated learning for all
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
The male achievement gap in Indiana
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
Project Complete
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Starfish Initiative
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Breaking through: Factsheet
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
Everybody ready for college
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Adult College Completion Network
Student success in higher education
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
State policy profiles for completion by design
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education
Mobility makers
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Pat Tillman Foundation
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
College Greenlight
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Latino college completion in 50 states
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
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
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
8th Annual AP report to the nation
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Cracking the credit hour
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
US Students in overseas degree programs: Key destinations and fields of study
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Cohort default rates in context
The Future Ready Project
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Ramp-up to Readiness
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Buying college: What consumers need to know
College completion toolkit
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Community college student survey
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
Enrollment status and outcomes
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Center for native education
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
Kids2College
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through
I-STEM Resource Network
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
The education success program
What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
EPAS®: A system that works
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Frequently asked questions
Preparing for college
Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs
What's wrong with guys?
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
UA Adult Focus
The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Leading by example
Twenty things you need to know about financing college
Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Educational opportunity for all?
Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity
Distance learning and adults with disabilities
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
Learning in a new key
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005
Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
A guide to establishing community-based college access centers
Adult persistence and success in higher education: A brief annotated bibliography of online resources
Foster youth educational attainment: An annotated bibliography of online resources
TRIO Programs
Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
School relationships foster success for African American students
African American achievement in America
Latino achievement in America
Minority student retention and academic achievement in community colleges
Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative
Foundation for excellent schools
Knowledge is power program
National Association of Street Schools
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Bridges to Success
College access: Results from a survey of low-income teens and parents
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
Access to postsecondary education for undocumented students
Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
Our impoverished view of education reform
Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Tribal colleges, native studies programs, and Indian education
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04
Education watch online
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates
After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America
Economic state of young America
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first-generation students
Making high school students into "college material"
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Educational Policy Improvement Center
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
The value of value-added data
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Financial education in TRIO programs
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials
A shared agenda: Action alert for outreach program leaders
Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
Closing the gap between high school and college
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Understanding the working college student
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
Grantmakers for Education
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
The College Completion Agenda
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
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
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
National Center for Academic Transformation
Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies
College for all?
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
Community College 2.0
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Family factors and student outcomes
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
The effects of public support on college attainment
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Project U-turn
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
Is school funding fair? A national report card
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
CollegeMeasures.org
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
Developmental education in community colleges
Community college and high school partnerships
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
The impact of teacher experience
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
What works in student retention 2010
I Need a Pencil.com
A shared agenda: Action alert for community leaders
A shared agenda: Action alert for school superintendents & middle & high school principals
A shared agenda: Action alert for higher education leaders
College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Pathways to College Network
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
ACE Online Information Center
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders
Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college
Field guide for improving student success
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Preparation for college admissions exams
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Education & the military spouse: The long road to success
College readiness for all toolbox
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
Flexible learning options for adult students
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
The future of middle-skill jobs
Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California
Campaign for High School Equity
The academics athletics trade-off: Universities and intercollegiate athletics
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Adult education participation in 2004-05
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Adult learners and new traditions in higher education
The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Collegiate learning assessement project
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
A new way on school integration
Just for the kids
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
National Urban League Scholarships
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
Annotated bibliography: Perspectives in postsecondary education programs and student support interventions
Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
College access: From the inside out
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Understanding college access for under-represented students: Trends, issues, and strategies
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
Reaching parents: The role of Latino parents in their children's education
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends
Education and correctional populations
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
Questbridge
American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook
Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Dispelling the myth - online
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices
National inventory of academic pathways
The student debt dilemma: Debt aversion as a barrier to college access
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Primary progress, secondary challenge
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)
Achievement in America
Connecting the dots: Multifaceted analyses of the relationships between student engagement results from the NSSE, and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success
Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students
Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses
College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
American student achievement institute
Trends in postsecondary access and interventions needed
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Minority student achievement network
The mentoring of disadvantaged youth
Pathways to College Network database
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education
Public attitudes on higher education
Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage
Indiana baccalaureate graduation data
Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education
Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults
Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
Just and efficient college finance
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
Capturing the college potential of students from underserved populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Improving math performance
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Retooling career and technical education
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama
Dream it! Do it!
States' progress toward high school restructuring
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
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
The benefits of racial/ethnic student groups: A psychologist explains
Teaching and learning across the class divide
Bridge program planning guide
Returning to our roots: Student access
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Spanish services training guide
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
Cómo obtener su GED (How to obtain your GED)
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
College guide for students with disabilities
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
2003 Graduation rates for 4-year and 2-year Title IV degree granting institutions by sector, race, and gender
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
Latinos in graduate education
Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
African American students and U.S. high schools
Addressing the needs of adult learners
Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates
Opening Doors project publications
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
TOEFL: Examen de inglés como segunda lengua (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Financial aid and scholarship information for undocumented students
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Improving performance on the ACT assessment
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
More student success: A systemic solution
Strategic directions in Indiana education
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships
The state of American manhood
Center for Law and Social Policy
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
Career development curricula and instructional materials
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
Promising practices for community college developmental education
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
A Better Chance.org
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
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
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
The false promise of class-size reduction
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
A detection model of college withdrawal
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
The degree qualifications profile
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know
Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions
Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse
Project WIn-Win
Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders
HSIs 2009-10
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030
Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2012
Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations
Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
The economic case for higher education
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
What is "career ready"?
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
An examination of the information technology job market
Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
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
Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Graduate enrollment in science and engineering grew substantially in the past decade but slowed in 2010
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
College and career development organizer
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011