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Stoutland, S., and Coles, A.
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How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)
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2011
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The Boston Foundation
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This report reflects the experiences of Boston Public Schools graduates in college – in their own words – and explores the similarities and differences among those who are struggling and those who are making it.
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Despite the Boston region's higher than average demand for workers with postsecondary degrees, college completion rates for Boston Public Schools graduates are low. Only 28% of non-exam school graduates from the class of 2003 who enrolled in college had obtained a degree six years later. This report reflects the experiences of Boston Public Schools graduates in college – in their own words – and explores the similarities and differences among those who are struggling and those who are making it.
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Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Ramp-up to Readiness
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
The condition of education 2011
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Latino college completion: Florida
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Improving community college success
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
What is "career ready"?
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Advocacy in action toolkit
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
National college access network
African American achievement in America
Latino achievement in America
First generation college students: A literature review
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
College success programs
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
Primary progress, secondary challenge
Bridges to Success
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Dispelling the myth - online
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
CPS: A leader in AP growth
The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare
Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
Just for the kids
College learning for the new global century
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
More student success: A systemic solution
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
New England Journal of Higher Education
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Promising practices for community college developmental education
The future of public education in New Orleans
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Washington Data and Reports
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
School Redesign Network
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Developmental education in community colleges
Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
CollegeMeasures.org
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
The College Completion Agenda
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
The breaking through practice guide
State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
Closing the gap between high school and college
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Making high school students into "college material"
College readiness and high school-to-college success
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Campaign for High School Equity
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
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
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Community colleges under stress
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
Adult college completion toolkit
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Hearing on non-traditional students
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Improving the odds for failing schools
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
On the road to success
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Latino college completion in 50 states
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
The nation's report card: Science 2011
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Latino college completion: State series
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
The false promise of class-size reduction
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities
New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
College tools for schools
Flexible learning options for adult students
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
State future workforce gap summaries
The future workforce of Indiana
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
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: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
The state of learning disabilities 2009
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Projections of education statistics to 2018
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
The degree qualifications profile
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
Project U-turn
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
Education Trust-West
YourWordsToday.org
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
The Condition of Education 2010
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
Education pays 2010
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Community college and high school partnerships
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Improving math performance
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Postsecondary Access and Success
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
African American students and U.S. high schools
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
Accelerated learning for all
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
A college access contract
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
Quality counts 2008
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
Projections of education statistics to 2016
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
The funding gap 2007
A Better Chance.org
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Economic mobility project
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
Windows on achievement and inequality
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Center for Law and Social Policy
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education
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
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Education and incarceration
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
Recent STEM initiatives
Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
Catching the Dream
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Bridging the gap between high school and college
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
Center for Student Opportunity
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Academic pathways to access and student success
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Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative
Minority student achievement network
Foundation for excellent schools
Knowledge is power program
National Association of Street Schools
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects
Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Measuring up 2004
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
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The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
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Postsecondary education opportunity
Indiana higher education opportunity data book
Education Trust, Inc
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Achievement in America
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Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
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National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
National Coalition for College Completion
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
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Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
College completion toolkit
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
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Healthcare
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Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
The economic case for higher education
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
SREB State progress reports 2012
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
California District Report Cards
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Assets & opportunity scorecard
8th Annual AP report to the nation
Why access matters: The community college student body
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
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From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
Western Policy Exchanges
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
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Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
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A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
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Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
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Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
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Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states
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National inventory of academic pathways
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Transitions to college: From theory to practice
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Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
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Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
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Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
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Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform
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Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
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One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)
Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth
The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap (Spanish Version)
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance
Condition of education 2008
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Science and mathematics education indicators
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
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A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
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Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color
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Starfish Initiative
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Center for native education
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
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The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Reading--Young children's achievement and classroom experiences
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
Student African American Brotherhood
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Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
What's wrong with guys?
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
High school dropouts in America
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
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Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Center on Education and the Workforce
2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies
High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
The achievement gap where you live
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
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The US STEM education model (simulation)
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
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Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
How much are college students borrowing?
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College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools
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
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Education Equality Project
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Indiana by the numbers
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Digest of Education Statistics, 2009
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
A shared agenda: Action alert for school superintendents & middle & high school principals
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
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
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
Closing the access gap: Does information matter?
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
The role of guidance in post-secondary planning
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Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
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?
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
Information constraints and financial aid policy
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
2012 SREB Annual Report
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Closing the expectations gap 2011
Community college student survey
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Research support for school counseling
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
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Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
Project WIn-Win
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Scaling community college interventions
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Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned
BC AVID: Early implementation report
The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
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Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
2009 ACT National and State Scores
ACE Online Information Center
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Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Rising by Degrees
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials
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Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
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Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
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Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
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Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
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Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
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
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
"Careers for the future" education program
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas
Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it
Changes in Graduation Rates by State (Progress and Challenge Indexes)
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Meeting the invention challenge
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Family firsts: Reach for your dreams
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Changing schools: A look at student mobility trends in Chicago public schools since 1995
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs
Central Indiana Talent Alliance
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018
Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
Community College 2.0
What does research say about 21st century skills?
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08
Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04
Understanding the working college student
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005
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
Why rural matters 2007: The realities of rural education growth
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Funding Gaps 2006
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Educational attainment in the United States: 2005
Digest of education statistics: 2006
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`
Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The Kalamazoo Promise
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America
Breaking through: Factsheet
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
Middle-class schools for all
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Economic state of young America
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap
Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education
Indiana college success coalition
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
The male achievement gap in Indiana
Strategic directions in Indiana education
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
Correctional education facts
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Steps to success (English and Spanish Versions)
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
The changing landscape of American public education: New students, new schools
Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist
Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education
Ensuring academic success for English learners
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Latinos in graduate education
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
The connection collection: School-family-community connections database
The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana
Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Kids Count state-level data online
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04
Raising minority academic achievement: A compendium of education programs and practices
American Indian student achievement in Montana public schools: Features of the achievement gap and policy prescriptions
Dropout rates in the United States: 2004
Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth
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
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Preparate para la universidad: A college planning guide in Spanish for students in grades 9 through 12
American student achievement institute
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference
Success for All Foundation
Improving education outcomes for foster youth: The Guardian Scholars Project Year 1
Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform
College access: Results from a survey of low-income teens and parents
Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction
Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success
First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students
GEAR UP
Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students
Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors
Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
GEAR UP Data: An information center of data, research, and analysis on GEAR UP
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
Kids Count Data Center
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Early warning indicator systems
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
Operation College Promise
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Student debt and the class of 2011
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
"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
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success
HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college
Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Preparing students for success in college
Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
TRIO Programs
Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy
When it comes to school, girls rule
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
Projections of education statistics to 2014
Lumina Foundation for Education
Overcoming obstacles to preparing for college: Perspectives from a rural Upward Bound program
Rural education at a glance
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success
Public attitudes on higher education
Getting honest about grad rates: How states play the numbers and students lose
One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope
The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how
Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class
Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
The American diploma project: Overview of research
State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
State higher education finance: FY 2004
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
An action agenda for improving America's high schools
Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
NCHEMS information center
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Indiana inventory of academic pathways
Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad
Access to postsecondary education for undocumented students
Pathways to college access and success
Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002
Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models
SMASH Academy
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Cristo Rey
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)
The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators
Puente Project
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004
Toward resiliency: At-risk students who make it to college
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Why segregation matters: Poverty and educational inequality
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Projections of education statistics to 2015
The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates
National College Access Program Directory
Office of Indian education programs
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
Coercive mobility and crime: A preliminary examination of concentrated incarceration and social disorganization
Indiana's 2006 graduation rate
The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college
Making middle grades work
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
The art of student retention
Creating schools that work
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
