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Author(s):	Coleman, A., and Lipper, K.
Title:	The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
Source:	http://youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org/sites/d...
Date:	2011
Organization:	College Board
Short Description:	This paper provides an overview of the federal legal implications associated with educational strategies and programs designed to promote sound solutions to address challenges associated with the educational underperformance of minority males.
Annotation:	This paper provides an overview of the federal legal implications associated with educational strategies and programs designed to promote sound solutions to address challenges associated with the educational underperformance of minority males. It has been prepared in furtherance of the College Board’s College Completion Agenda and as part of the ongoing work of the College Board’s Advocacy & Policy Center that addresses issues of postsecondary access and completion.
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Accountability and Productivity (Postsecondary)

African American

American Indian/Alaska Native

Asian American/Pacific Islander

College Access

Documents

Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion

First Generation College Students

Improving Postsecondary Student Success

Latino/Hispanic

Low-Income Students

Male Students

Minority/Race/Ethnicity

Non-traditional Students

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A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help

Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success

Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success

Financial education in TRIO programs

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

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

Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation

Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions

College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students

Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes

A Better Chance.org

Economic mobility project

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents

Diverse issues in higher education

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Language rights: An integration agenda for immigrant communities

Gates Millennium Scholars Scholarships

On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships

Early intervention program and college partnerships

A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000

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

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Facts for education advocates

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight

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

Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card

An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace

The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys

Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males

Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve

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

First generation college students: A literature review

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going

America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future

Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms

Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

College learning for the new global century

Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment

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

Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study

Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students

Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do

Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions

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

After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni

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

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

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

College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Alliances for graduate education and the professoriate (AGEP)

Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity

Postsecondary Access and Success

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

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

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

Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals

Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

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

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity

AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"

Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions

On the road to success

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

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

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

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

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

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals

New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates

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

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

American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08

High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California

The Condition of Education 2010

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

Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force

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

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

Understanding the working college student

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

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

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

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

Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities

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

Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state

Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)

The College Match Program

Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges

The false promise of class-size reduction

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success

Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves

Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable

Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

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

Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships

Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms

The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

Ensuring success for returning veterans

College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy

Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents

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

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

Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college

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

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)

Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams

A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students

Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs

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

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

Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis

Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative

The degree qualifications profile

Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males

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

Buying college: What consumers need to know

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

How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children

Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures

Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

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

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults

Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments

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

Latino college completion: State series

Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges

Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges

A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all

The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students

A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative

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

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School

New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

The National Indian Education Study

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

Center on Education and the Workforce

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

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

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

The breaking through practice guide

Community College 2.0

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)

Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college

Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns

Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change

Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes

Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico

Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement

Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures

Operation College Promise

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

Three policies to reduce time to degree

Ramp-up to Readiness

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?

Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs

What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

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

Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive

Western Policy Exchanges

12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012

Latino college completion in 50 states

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce

Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers

Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011

Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices

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

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

California District Report Cards

Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes

Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education

The economic case for higher education

Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states

Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005

The Breakthrough High School project

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students

African American students and U.S. high schools

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth

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

Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors

Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology

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

Catching the Dream

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship

Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners

Ensuring academic success for English learners

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

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

Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education

Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education

Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education

Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students

The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare

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

Miles to go: Louisiana

A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students

A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars

Lumina Foundation for Education

National college access network

In state tuition for undocumented immigrants

With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future

Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

Access to postsecondary education for undocumented students

Data sources for improving college access and success

Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds

Reflecting on reconnecting males to higher education

Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities

College success programs

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

Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

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

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners

The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors

The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution

Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid

Community colleges under stress

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students

College For Every Student

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

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites

Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

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

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations

Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools

On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State

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

Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers

Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states

Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration

Rising by Degrees

SREB Factbook on higher education

The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools

Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges

Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Measuring up 2008

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools

Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

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

Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program

The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

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

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas

"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

Common measures for college access and success

Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment

Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'

College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education

Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Students earning zero credits

The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students

Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy

The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education

Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century

Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood

Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission

Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary

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

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)

Field guide for improving student success

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges

From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college

The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report

The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond

Grants for Individuals: Minorities

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update

National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations

Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA)

Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates

Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Educational needs index

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

It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

School relationships foster success for African American students

Postsecondary education opportunity

Annotated bibliography of minority achievement

Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study

State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians

Resistance theory and the transculturation hypothesis as explanations of college attrition and persistence among culturally traditional American Indian students

From their voices: American Indians in higher education and the phenomenon of stepping out

Postsecondary transitions among Navajo Indians

Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children

College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners

Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation

Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today

Excelencia in education

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample

Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit

Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)

Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02

Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance

For better science, just add color

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)

The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation graduate scholarship program

Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence

Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges

New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

Student loans and public accountability

How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?

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

Opportunity in America: The role of education

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

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

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

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

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

Boosting postsecondary education performance

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?

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

Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes

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

Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching

Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning

Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Leveraging data for college completion

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM

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

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

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

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

The case for change in college admissions

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

Project WIn-Win

Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success

The effects of public support on college attainment

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs

Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts

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

The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers

A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

The College Completion Agenda

From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees

Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning

Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007

Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned

Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland

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

State of metropolitan America: The new metro minority map: Regional shifts, in Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks from Census 2010

Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation

A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter

Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?

Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

GEAR UP Data: An information center of data, research, and analysis on GEAR UP

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

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

HBCU distance learning 2010

Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?

How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college

Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads

Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?

Developmental education in community colleges

Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education

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

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

The impact of teacher experience

Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model

Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates

Student success in higher education

What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability

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

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

Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know

Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project

Everybody ready for college

Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors

Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

Cracking the credit hour

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"

Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers

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

Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways

Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

Community college student survey

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

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

College completion toolkit

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

Adult College Completion Network

Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps

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

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years

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

Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success

Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010

Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)

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

Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

Boosting college completion for a new economy

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement

Scaling community college interventions

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college

New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders

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

Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education

Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners

Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08

Which achievement gap?

California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference

Is school funding fair? A national report card

Immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's education at home and at school in 1999-2000

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

CollegeMeasures.org

Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

National Center for Academic Transformation

Sample state legislation to extend foster care, adoption, and guardianship protections, services, and payments to young adults age 18 and over

Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states

Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

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

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020

Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference

College for all?

Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system

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

A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs

What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools

Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Achievement gap patterns of grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students in reading and mathematics

Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success

Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships

Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run

Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth

Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

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

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)

Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08

Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?

Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce

Cohort default rates in context

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood

Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools

New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states

Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students

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

2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads

The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations

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

Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect

Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

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

State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later

Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda

Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts

Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district

Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations

5 Education factors in focus

A disruptive look at competency-based education: How the innovative use of technology will transform the college experience

Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education

Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts

Repository of resources for undocumented students

Framing new terrain: Older adults & higher education

Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement

Learning in a new key

Improving math performance

Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform

Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed

Developing your vision while attending college

Opening Doors project publications

What's wrong with guys?

Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy

College of Adult and Professional Studies

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

Where are the Black scientists?

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

Latinos in graduate education

Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap

Collegiate learning assessement project

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)

Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

The segregation of American teachers

Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

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

Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

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

Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move

Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement

National Association of Street Schools

What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

American Indian higher education consortium

National Indian Education Association

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

Barriers to persistence among African-American intercollegiate athletes: A literature review of non-cognitive variables

Improving lives: Ensuring the academic success of low-income adults

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

English language learners: Boosting academic achievement

Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography

National College Access Program Directory

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

African American achievement in America

Latino achievement in America

Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students

TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)

From risk to opportunity: Fulfilling the educational needs of Hispanic Americans in the twenty-first century

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy

Education Trust, Inc

Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

Foster youth educational attainment: An annotated bibliography of online resources

Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education

Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend

Education dedicated to black males still relevant

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students

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

Economic state of young America

The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance

It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success

Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school

College access and success state data

"Careers for the future" education program

State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

Project Complete

Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs

Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule

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

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely

Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap

The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction

Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs

Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992

National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years

White students are racially isolated

School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment

Enrollment status and outcomes

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

Breaking through: Factsheet

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

Racial disparities and the new federalism

An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth

The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities

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

Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio

Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college

Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

Educational Policy Improvement Center

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools

Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success

Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

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

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

The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey

A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity

Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010

Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders

Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS

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

Time to Completion Web Site

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

Campaign for High School Equity

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions

Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions

Making high school students into "college material"

Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)

Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges

Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school

Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment

Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes

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

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

Education watch 2009

Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals

Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy

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

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

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

Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration

A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 - Education provisions

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't

Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities

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

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

Education Equality Project

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

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

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students

Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009

The public realities of private student loans

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009

The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes

Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

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

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography

Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Transitions -- First-generation students: A promising concept?

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio

Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success

The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges

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

Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college

Are student employment and academic success linked?

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006

Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices

Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

Orphan Foundation of America

Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement

The future of public education in New Orleans

Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects

No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)

Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

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

A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Center for Law and Social Policy

The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act

Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce

The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners

Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools

Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance

The state of American manhood

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

Flexible learning options for adult students

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens

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

What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy

An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce

Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000

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

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

Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report

Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success

A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access

Access to community college for undocumented immigrants: A guide for state policy makers

Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth

Disconnected youth: Educational pathways to reconnection

Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

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

Our impoverished view of education reform

Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers

Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education

One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education

Native American higher education initiative: Educating the mind and spirit

The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students

College access: From the inside out

How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006

Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South

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

Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program

Tribal colleges, native studies programs, and Indian education

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Creating role models for change: A survey of tribal college graduates

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

American student achievement institute

Minority student achievement network

Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid

Academic pathways to access and student success

Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems

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

Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement

Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)

Connecting the dots: Multifaceted analyses of the relationships between student engagement results from the NSSE, and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success

Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

El Puente Project

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America

Minority teacher/special education services scholarship

Measuring up 2006

The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention

Boys and girls harbor

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach

Does public funding for higher education matter?

The art of student retention

Bridge Partnership

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03

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

American Indian and Alaska Native children: Findings from the base year of the early childhood longitudinal study, birth cohort

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities

Correctional education facts

The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law

Jonathan Kozol interview transcript: Source material for "Segregation and its Calamitous Effects, America's "Apartheid" Schools"

Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges

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

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Names, expectations and the Black-White test score gap

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

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

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

Latinos in undergraduate education

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college

Diversity workshops: Gender equity--a closer look

Timing and duration of student participation in special education in the primary grades

Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments

Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study

Savvy assessment and evaluation skills

A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions

Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems

Tour of the male student mind in American higher education

Growing share of immigrants choosing naturalization

Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today

The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics

Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP

Black, White and Brown: Latino school desegragation efforts in the pre- and post- Brown vs. the Board of Education era

Latino students and U.S. high schools

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies

Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options

Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs

Distance learning and adults with disabilities

The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement

Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future

Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam

Earnings by attainment

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report

School Redesign Network

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities

The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools

Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine

MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries

How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

Net migration from Mexico falls to zero-and perhaps less?

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States

The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

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

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

Assets & opportunity scorecard

Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes

Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030

For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009

It can be done, it's being done, and here's how

The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience

Trends in student aid 2011

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts

Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems

High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators

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

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

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

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

SREB State progress reports 2012

2012 SREB Annual Report

Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Global Skills for Global Completion

New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes

Family factors and student outcomes

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk

Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation

The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century

Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed

Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education

Children of Immigrants Data Tool

What educators should learn from ER

America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

SREB/Go Alliance

A paradox of education progress

College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time

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

A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education

Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

2011 Kids count data book: State profiles of child well-being:

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

Accomodating student veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder: Tips for campus faculty and staff

The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west

The Future Ready Project

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

After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality

One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success

From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts

Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons

Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables

Pell Institute: TRIO clearinghouse

Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making

A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee

Central Indiana Talent Alliance

An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools

Closing the gap between high school and college

Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade

Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap

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

Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education

A detection model of college withdrawal

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions

Presidential perspectives: The 2011 Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university presidents

Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education

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

Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates

STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students

The student debt crisis

Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter

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

Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences

The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success

Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports

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

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

College Greenlight

The role of two-year institutions in four-year success

Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

An examination of the information technology job market

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

Enrollment management, Inc.: External influences on our practice

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

How college pricing undermines financial aid

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school

Transfer and articulation policies

The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah

Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent

The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness

I Need a Pencil.com

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

Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma

Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits

Portraits: Initial college attendance of low-income young adults

FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle

The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011

Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

The condition of education 2011

Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants

Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes

Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education

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

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels

Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative

Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04

2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)

Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it

Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs

Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress

Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution

Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy

State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform

Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges

Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success

A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways

Update on the community college baccalaureate: Evolving trends and issues

Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways

Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey

Why is college so expensive?

Midwest evaluation of the adult functioning of former foster youth

Engaging diverse viewpoints: What is the campus climate for perspective taking?

America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes (Pathways to College Network Issue Brief)

Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership

Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group

Grantmakers for Education

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

FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success

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

Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)

Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems

Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time

Mind the (other) gap: State profiles

Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts

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

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

Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A

Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)

America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2012

National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care

The toll of the great recession: Childhood poverty among Hispanics sets record, leads nation

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career

Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations

Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education

Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program

A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research

Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs

Principal-counselor toolkit

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

Hispanic poverty rate highest in new supplemental census measure

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009

Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education

8th Annual AP report to the nation

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

The road to high-quality early education

SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report

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

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

ACE Toolkit for veteran friendly institutions

One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

Measuring efficiency in the community college sector

Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states

Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers

Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill

Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college

Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11

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

What is "career ready"?

Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system

New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)

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

Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools

The path to prosperity: A policy of investment

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

Retooling career and technical education

Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges

Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges

Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

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

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report

Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

Forging new partnerships: Adult and developmental education in community colleges

Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy

Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years

Nontraditional undergraduates

IUPUI SAAB summer bridge program

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

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

Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students

Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree

Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

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

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

Leading by example

Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

Literacy behind bars: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy prison survey

Returning to our roots: Student access

2003 Graduation rates for 4-year and 2-year Title IV degree granting institutions by sector, race, and gender

Accelerated learning for all

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students

Access denied: The complexity of Asian Pacific Americans

Teaching and learning across the class divide

Educational opportunity for all?

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Brown at 50: King's dream or Plessy's nightmare

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices

National Urban League Scholarships

Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools

Just for the kids

A summary of research and publications on early childhood for American Indian and Alaska Native children

Adult education participation in 2004-05

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

Bachelor's degrees awarded to men and women in Indiana 1970 to 2004

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

Peak experiences

Reaching parents: The role of Latino parents in their children's education

Achieving the dream: Community colleges count

State of college admission 2007

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

The Progress of education reform: Hispanic achievement

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

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

Perceptions of college financial aid among California Latino youth

Trends in postsecondary access and interventions needed

Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males

Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America

Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college

An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students

Native American culture: Education

American Indian student achievement in Montana public schools: Features of the achievement gap and policy prescriptions

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

Indian students and college preparation

Office of Indian education

Office of Indian education programs

Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us

Homeschooled adults: Are they ready for college

From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates

Schools to watch

Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card

Promoting educational success for young people in foster care

Education watch online

Understanding college access for under-represented students: Trends, issues, and strategies

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

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research

Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later

Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes

The tribal college journal

American Indian science and engineering society

American Indian college fund

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

Education and the economy: An indicators report

A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices

How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04

Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope

Rural education at a glance

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

Achievement in America

Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later

Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states

The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act

Public attitudes on higher education

Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid

Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education

Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education

Understanding and working with students and adults from poverty

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program

Primary progress, secondary challenge

School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis

The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First

U.S. immigration: Trends and implications for schools

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success

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

What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction

Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

College students working: The choice nexus

A guide to establishing community-based college access centers

Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships

State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality

Do grants matter?

Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship

Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions

All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps

The first year experience: Are we making it any better

Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work

Latino youth and the pathway to college

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice

Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools

Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results

Federal access policies and higher education for working adults

The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007

Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college

Indiana by the numbers

The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital

Black Alliance for Educational Options

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

Anderson University: ADVANCE

Indiana University Kokomo: Project Complete

Morris K. Udall Scholarship

What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Student persistence in college: More than counting caps and gowns

Condition of education 2008

Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability

Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures

The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report

The minds of boys

The male achievement gap in Indiana

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

What every college access practitioner should know: About the needs of latino students and their families

More student success: A systemic solution

Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning

Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing

Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action

Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials: Understanding the new students

Maintaining participation of Millennial Generation students in online learning environments

Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)

Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies

Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

Starfish Initiative

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Black college dollars: 2007-2008 Directory of scholarships for African-American students

The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

The real technology challenge

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

Accelerated developmental education project

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

Degree attainment

Education and economic competitiveness

Workers need training, not tough talk

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio

Aligning state approval and regional accreditation for online postsecondary institutions: A national strategy

The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

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

The productivity argument for investing in young children

The consequences of dropping out of high school: Joblessness and jailing for high school dropouts and the high cost for taxpayers

The value of value-added data

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials

Insuring college failure risk

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

Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)

Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education

College and university mergers: Recent trends

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

Opportunity.gov

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment

IPEDS Data Center

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

Access to Learning

Transparency by design

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)

Sexual orientation and outcomes in college

How much are college students borrowing?

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle

The future of middle-skill jobs

Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

Diversity and affirmative action in higher education

Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

New measures of student success in public higher education

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners

Mythbusting: Breaking down confidentiality and decision-making barriers to meet the education needs of children in foster care

Solving the data puzzle: A "how-to" guide on collecting and sharing information to improve educational outcomes for children in out-of-home care

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals

Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure

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

Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth

Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency

Supporting first-generation college students through classroom-based practices

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house

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

Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas

Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas

2012 National survey of school counselors

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?

Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession