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Author(s):ACT, Inc.
Title:2011 ACT national and state scores: State reports
Source:http://www.act.org/news/data/11/readinessreport...
Date:2011
Organization:ACT, Inc.
Short Description:These reports present state-level data about the college and career readiness of 2011 high school graduates and the performance of the on the ACT.
Annotation:Readiness Reports provide a snapshot of the ACT-tested graduates in each state, focusing on their readiness for college and career success. Profile Reports present data about the performance of each state's 2011 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors.
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The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Implementing common core state standards and assessments: A workbook for state and district leaders
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
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
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do parents need to know?
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do teachers need to know?
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
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
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
ED Data Express
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
Building an early childhood professional development system
Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students
Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Interpreting ACT assessment scores
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills
Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Digest of education statistics: 2006
Sustaining focus on secondary school reading: Lessons and recommendations from the Alabama reading initiative
Knocking at the college door: California state report
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards
The proficiency illusion
State of college readiness for Latino students
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
College tools for schools
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
College access and success state data
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
What every college access practitioner should know about: The early college high school initiative – Indiana plans for the early college high school for science and technologies
ACT's COMPASS: Setting the right course for college success
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education
High school - Advanced placement
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Projections of 2003-04 high school graduates: Supplemental analyses based on findings from who graduates? Who doesn't?
Results that matter: New technology high school at a glance
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Charting a new course for career and technical education
The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
Ohio early college high school initiative
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
Projections of education statistics to 2015
The state of preschool 2005: State preschool yearbook
What works clearinghouse
Implementing graduation counts: State progress to date
Residence and migration for college freshmen for Indiana
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Career-related predictors of work-bound and college-bound status of adolescents in rural and nonrural areas
ACT, Inc.
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the common core of data: School years 2001-02 and 2002-03
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform
Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy
Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success
Getting honest about grad rates: How states play the numbers and students lose
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Latino youth and the pathway to college
High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
High school graduation rankings and rates for fifty states 2002
Measuring up 2004
The graduation gap: Using promoting power to examine the number and characteristics of high schools with high and low graduation rates in the nation and in each state
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
Building the foundation for bright futures: Final report of the NGA task force on school readiness
Building the foundation for bright futures: A governors guide to school readiness
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
The career pathways how-to guide
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Graduation rates in Indiana: An analysis of various methods of caluculating graduation rates
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
First year college performance: A study of home school graduates and traditional school graduates
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
Distance education
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
A voice from the middle
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school
State education reforms – Standards, assessment, and accountability
Is high school tough enough?
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Common Core implementation workbook
End-of-course exams
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
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?
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Digest of Education Statistics 2011
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports