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Author(s):Howell, J., and Smith, J.
Title:The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
Source:http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/sites/default/...
Date:2011
Organization:College Board Advocacy & Policy Center
Short Description: Many teachers, counselors and parents recognize that traditionally underserved students and those with fewer resources stand to benefit greatly from guidance, support, and accurate information designed to help them meet these collegegoing milestones. The research supports their insight.
Annotation:Reaching the point where college is a viable option requires planning and a variety of actions by students while they are still enrolled in high school (taking collegepreparatory courses, taking college entrance exams, applying to college and for financial aid, etc.). Many teachers, counselors and parents recognize that traditionally underserved students and those with fewer resources stand to benefit greatly from guidance, support, and accurate information designed to help them meet these collegegoing milestones. The research supports their insight.
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Accountability and Productivity (K-12)
College Access
College-going Culture
Counseling/Guidance
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Evidence-based Interventions/Promising Practices
Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs
High School
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
Low-Income Students
Non-traditional Students

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APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
2012 National survey of school counselors
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Condition of education 2008
College.gov
Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care
Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Financial education in TRIO programs
Insuring college failure risk
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary
“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research
Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
Field guide for improving student success
The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Why stop after high school?: A descriptive analysis of the most important reasons that high school graduates do not continue to PSE
Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
Opening Doors project publications
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Improving educational opportunties for students who work
Schools to watch
Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Just and efficient college finance
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
Empty promises: The myth of college access in America
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
First generation college students: A literature review
Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
USA Funds
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects
Twenty-first Century Scholars Program
High school counselors handbook 2004-05
The impact of advice on price: Evidence from research
Internet inequalities: Financial aid, the internet, and low-income students
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
Financial aid at California community colleges: Pell grants and fee waivers in 2003-04
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
ESEA Briefing Book
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process
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
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
College InSight
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
The current status of school counseling outcome research
After the FAFSA: How red tape can prevent eligible students from receiving financial aid
For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
Mobility makers
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
The economic value of opportunity youth
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
What we know about dual enrollment
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
Trends in student aid 2011
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative
The first year of high school
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
Dual enrollment for high school students
Early warning indicator systems
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment
Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Think College Indiana!
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
On her majesty's school inspection service
2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions
Measuring efficiency in the community college sector
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
Adolescent literacy
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Lifting the fog on inequitable financial aid policies: A companion brief to priced out: How the wrong financial aid policies hurt low-income students
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Trends in college spending: 1998-2008: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Special populations: Tips for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses
New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview
Indiana's Cash for College
Improving access to higher education by promoting saving
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
YourWordsToday.org
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs
Who subsidizes whom? An analysis of educational costs and revenues
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
How college pricing undermines financial aid
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Improving community college success
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?
What do you want in an afterschool program?
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Measuring up 2006
Documenting the shift to merit
Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
State of college admission 2007
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)
Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
Pathways to college access and success
Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions
Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
The student debt dilemma: Debt aversion as a barrier to college access
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
National college access network
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
Public attitudes on higher education
Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success
Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education
A closer look at the President's proposal for changes in student assistance
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
Preparing students for success in college
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century
The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality
Do grants matter?
2003 status report on the Pell grant program
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
Catching the Dream
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)
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Going to the source: A practical way to simplify the FAFSA
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Improving math performance
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
The ASCA national model
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
LearnMore Indiana Resource Center
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
The Canadian student financial aid system: The case for modernization
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Deciding about post-secondary education: Hearing the voices of non-attendees
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
BC AVID: Early implementation report
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
No Excuses University Network
The value of value-added data
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Pathways to College Network
College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary
The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability
My future, my way: How to go, how to pay
Opportunity.gov
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Impact of college rankings on institutional decision making: Four country case studies
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle
Student Success Skills
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Family firsts: Reach for your dreams
IDA Pays: Examining the potential of education IDAs
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
Project Complete
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality
Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Paving the way: How financial aid awareness affects college access and success
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Creating a college-going culture guide
Tips for parents with high school teens: Countdown to college
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes
Low-income students and college success: More than money
School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
The College Keys Compact: Getting into college: Postsecondary academic undermatch
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
A systemic approach to implementing response to intervention in three Colorado high schools
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
CollegeAnswer.com
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Mental health in school and school improvement: Current status, concerns, and new directions
College planning resource directory
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school
Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)
Indiana Chafee Education and Training Voucher (ETV) Program
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
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Higher education accountability for student learning
State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Schools, skills, and synapses
Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Flexible learning options for adult students
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage
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
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
The Everyone Graduates Center
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
The President's Forum
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Public institution and university system financial conditions survey
Educational Policy Improvement Center
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)
New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design
Financial aid in theory and practice
Summer Search
Quick facts about financial aid and community colleges, 2007-08
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Metrics for improving cost accountability
Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007
Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education
A new kind of student aid: Creating, implementing and assessing the Millennium Access Bursaries
Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?
The 2008 amendments to the Higher Education Act: Are we on the right track?
College Awareness Month: Resources for building a college-going culture
Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture
Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture
A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
Canada's Tuition and Education Tax Credits
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Differential grading standards among high schools
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families
Back to school: Federal student aid policy and adult college enrollment
Nontraditional undergraduates
Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation
Accelerated learning for all
Returning to our roots: Student access
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Fund Your Future: Student Financial Aid Workbook
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
School Redesign Network
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Steps to success (English and Spanish Versions)
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
KnowHow2GO
Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors
Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization
Federal Pell Grants: Implications of increasing the maximum reward
Campus-based student financial aid programs under the higher education act
American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook
Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
How do financial aid policies affect colleges? The institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship
Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers
The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education
Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states
Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship
Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students
Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success
Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend
State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality
Discounting toward disaster: Tuition discounting, college finances, and enrollments of low-income undergraduates
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
Debt burden: Repaying student debt
College affordability: Overlooked long-term trends and recent 50 state patterns
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector
No merit in these scholarships
In state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Foster care independence act of 1999 and John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program
Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students
2006-2007 NASFAA financial aid night and counselor's materials
Advisory committee on student financial assistance
What students pay for college: Changes in net price of college attendance between 1992-93 and 1999-2000
Financial aid: A shared agenda to achieve access and success for under-served students
Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004
Lumina Foundation focus: Dreams detoured: Rising college costs alter plans and threaten futures
College choice website
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Reclaiming the American dream
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors
On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services
Federal student aid for counselors
Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
Merit aid and college access
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library
College planning center
Financial aid and postsecondary opportunity for nontraditional age pre-college students: The roles of information and education delivery systems
What works clearinghouse
Tuition discounting: Not just a private college practice
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
P-20 governance
Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college
HBCU distance learning 2010
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
A portrait of school improvement grantees
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
The undereducated American
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
Global Skills for Global Completion
False fronts? Behind higher education's voluntary accountability systems
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Effective instructional strategies
Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
Why is college so expensive?
School connectedness and meaningful student participation
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Understanding the working college student
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Evaluate mentoring programs
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens
State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region
TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion
A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time
Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders
Five ways education pays initiative
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Operation College Promise
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Assessing deeper learning
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
How America pays for college 2012
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
The expansion of private loans in postsecondary education
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
Revamping the teacher evaluation process
Net tuition and net price trends in the United States: 2000-2009
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
You can go! Educator resources
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Loan forgiveness for specialized instructional support personnel (including school counselors) frequently asked questions
10 Pieces of advice from students for teachers
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
Getting teacher evaluation right: A brief for policymakers
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
Operation Military Kids
The digital revolution and higher education: College presidents, public differ on value of online education
Expanded measures of school performance
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
On the road to success
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
Why access matters: The community college student body
Federal student loan interest rates: History, subsidies, and cost
Making college more affordable: The president's plan to lower college tuition is a good first step but more can be done
Improving the odds for failing schools
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures
The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
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
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
Response to Intervention policy
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Complete College America
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Paying for college: Students from middle-income backgrounds
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Retaining teacher talent: Convergence and contradictions in teachers' perceptions of policy reform ideas
College Savings Foundation
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
The connection between health and high school dropout
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
Project U-turn
A next social contract for the primary years of education
What educators should learn from ER
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
Evidence-based dropout prevention programs
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
The bottom line: Ensuring that students and parents understand the net price of college
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
The condition of education 2011
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
College Affordability and Transparency Center
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Early college designs
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Still denied: How community colleges shortchange students by not offering federal loans
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
Cohort default rate resources
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
Community college student survey
Piling it on: The growth of proprietary school loans and the consequences for students
Enrollment management, Inc.: External influences on our practice
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
An assessment of recent proposals to improve the Montgomery GI bill
Unintended consequences of tuition discounting
The art of student retention
Need versus merit: Focusing student financial aid for diversity
Taxing matters
Contending with financial inequality
NDSFA: The financial aid partnership
Pathways to improving practice: Data-driven pre-college outreach programs
NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good
Admission possible
National Center for College Costs
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
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school
Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education
Mapping your future
State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
College preparation information from Peterson's Education Center
What research tells us about college access: Assuring the success of all 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
Cal-SOAP
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America
Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Missed opportunities revisited: New information on students who do not apply for financial aid
Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers
Primary progress, secondary challenge
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
National inventory of academic pathways
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Postsecondary education opportunity
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how
Paying for college: Changes between 1990 and 2000 for full-time dependent undergraduates
The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education
2003 Status report on the federal education loan programs
Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers
How families of low- and middle-income undergraduates pay for college: Full-time dependent students in 1999-2000
What colleges contribute: Institutional aid to full-time undergraduates attending four-year colleges and universities
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students
Policies in sync: Appropriations, tuition, and financial aid in higher education
Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated
When saving means losing: Weighing the benefits of college-savings plans
Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success
Private loans and choice in financing higher education
Pell Grant recipients in selective colleges and universities
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education
Annotated list of Pathways research, papers, reports, and other publications by focus area
Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability
The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt
Expanding college access: The impact of state finance strategies
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education
State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer
Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
National football league high school website: Academics
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Do merit scholarships promote college access? Evidence from two states
Talent Development High Schools
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
National Urban League Scholarships
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Adult learners and new traditions in higher education
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Costs, prices, and affordability
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
Federal student aid need analysis: Background and selected simplification issues
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Student debt: Bigger and bigger
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
A postsecondary resource guide for students with psychiatric disabilities
Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
Fund Your Future: Counselors' Guide
College Access: Indiana
Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families
Mission: Possible!
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
What works for Latino students
Finding the right college for you
Boosters, brokers, and bridges: Real world ideas for college access programs
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Guide for parents: Ten steps to prepare your child for college
12 Ways adult students can pay for college
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
Lumina Foundation for Education: Adult learners
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA
Is college right for your child?: How to weigh the pros and cons
Break down the bill: What's it going to cost?
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Relationships between EPAS scores and college preparatory course work in high school
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
Does money matter? II
Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education
Does money matter?
Investing in their future: A survey of student and parental support for learning
Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers
College-going culture rubric
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Getting with the program: Community college students need access to federal loans
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Trends in college pricing 2009
The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence
The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey
Growing What Works Database
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal
Federal Student Aid Data Center
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Student loan forgiveness programs: An evolving workforce development tool
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Access and persistence: Fall 2009
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
The public realities of private student loans
Center for College Affordability and Productivity
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide
FinAid: Income-based repayment
College readiness for all toolbox
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Stronger department of education oversight needed to help ensure only eligible students receive federal student aid
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
The implementation checklist for college awareness: A product of the High School Reform Strategy Toolkit
SREB Factbook on higher education
From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Dropout prevention practice guide
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
Setting the record straight: How trendy approaches to college access might or might not be helping low-income students
I-STEM Resource Network
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Scholarship Program
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance
The role of the school counselor in the new era of RTI
Think college? Me? Now?
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
College tools for schools
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
The Equity Project
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Trends in college pricing 2008
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Gateway to College
Becoming credit-wise: What students (and you!) should know
Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers
Learning in a new key
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
The Breakthrough High School project
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
The national articulation and transfer network
Access to success initiative
Culture of evidence
College bound? Don't get hooked by misleading financial aid offers
Academic competitiveness grants
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
2007 Survey of parents of college-bound freshman
Quality counts 2008
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college
From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Explaining financial aid
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
What every college access practitioner should know: About sources of funding and other support
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Repository of resources for undocumented students
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom
Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Preparing students to transition from high school to college: A review of the perceptions surrounding college and the challenges students face as they prepare for their collegiate experience
Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school
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
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
The complexity of college and career readiness
Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
Common measures for college access and success
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
"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
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
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
College is affordable: A pilot study
Adult college completion toolkit
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process
Trends in student aid 2012
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
The missing "one-offs": The hidden supply of high achieving, low-income students
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Strategic directions in Indiana education
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
All Kinds of Minds
Virtual Pamphlet Collection - Study Skills
HomeworkSpot
More student success: A systemic solution
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans
Education Finance Council
A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Indiana's guide to paying for college
Breaking through: Factsheet
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Center for native education
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Education in the age of accountability: A research focus of the Urban Institute
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
The Sallie Mae Fund
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
2006-2007 National directory of scholarships, internships, and fellowships for Latino youth
Encouraging girls in math and science
Parent primer on career exploration
StateVoucher.org (Education and Training Vouchers)
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
College admission for homeschoolers
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
Implementing evidence-based practices: six "drivers" of success
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Parent and student guide to federal tax benefits for tuition and fees for tax year 2007
Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10
Financial aid consultants and scholarship search services fact sheet
Federal access policies and higher education for working adults
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
YouthBuild USA
Frequently asked questions regarding public service loan forgiveness
Trends in student aid 2008
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
Intervention Central
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Admissions in the 21st Century
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
An overview of tax benefits for higher education expenses
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
A brief history of veterans' education benefits and their value
Youth transition funders group
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
Ed Fund
The Student Guide for High School Seniors/College Students
Scholarships for Hispanics
Back to College (Back2College)
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Student persistence in college: More than counting caps and gowns
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
State higher education finance: 2007
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices
English-Spanish glossary of student financial aid and postsecondary education
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
US Department of Veterans Affairs: Yellow Ribbon Program
A closer look at the principal-counselor relationship: A survey of principals and counselors
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
IDAs and financial aid: Understanding the puzzle and sharing best practices
College readiness and high school-to-college success
An analysis of section 529 college savings and prepaid tuition plans
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
How much are college students borrowing?
A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management
How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae
The impact of peers on college preparation: A review of the literature
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Connected by 25: Financing housing supports for youth transitioning out of high school
Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care
College-going cultures in urban high schools
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Education Equality Project
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Official cohort default rates for schools
New measures of student success in public higher education
Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
2007-08 National postsecondary student aid study (NPSAS:08): Student financial aid estimates for 2007-08
The study of implementation in school-based preventative interventions: Theory, research, and practice
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10 (Spanish language version)
A shared agenda: Action alert for school superintendents & middle & high school principals
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Ten Things you need to know about financial support for post-secondary students in Canada
Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth
Trends in student aid 2009
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
Teacher and staff activities to create a college-going culture
Is university education in Canada more affordable than in the United States?: A Review of the Argument Presented in The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel
Pressure points in student financial assistance: Exploring the “Making Ends Meet” database
Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys
Student Financial Survey: Baseline Results (2001)
Funding university education in Ontario: Ontario University applicant survey report
Report on student debt: Canadian college student survey and Canadian undergraduate survey consortium
Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps
Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
Making ends meet: The 2001–2002 student financial survey
Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
No child left behind: What it means for parents
What helps or hinders students' chances of success in college?
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
Where the scholarships are: How to develop a scholarship strategy
How to apply for a scholarship: The money is there, but you have to ask for it
Can you spot a scholarship scam? Be a smart consumer
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
Funding higher education for adult students
Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana
The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity
Cómo pagar por sus estudios universitarios (Financial aid guide)
Student African American Brotherhood
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Financial aid FAQ (frequently asked questions)
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Don't get scammed on your way to college!
How do I pay for college?
Low income student scholarships
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Price isn't the only consideration: Look beyond the cost side of the equation
Creating options 2007: Financial aid for individuals with disabilities
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
The College Dream: A Guide for Parents
Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Adventures in Education - High School (English and Spanish Versions)
College: Making It Happen
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
Postsecondary Access and Success
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Helping families finance college: Improved student loan disclosures and counseling
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
YMCA
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
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
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Just for the kids
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education
Collegiate learning assessement project
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Below the accountability radar screen: What does state policy say about school counseling
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
Feasibility of a student unit record system within the integrated postsecondary education data system
Transfer college quality and student performance
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment
College on credit: How borrowers perceive their education debt
The debt explosion among college graduates
Student loan forgiveness programs
The campus-based financial aid programs: A review and analysis of the allocation of funds to institutions and the distribution of aid to students
Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship
Homeschooled adults: Are they ready for college
Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us
Financial aid, access, and America's social contract with higher education
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Bridging the gap between high school and college
High hopes, big debts
The feasibility of delivering aid for college through the tax system
College access marketing campaigns: Influencing college-going behaviors of underrepresented students
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06
Middle Start
Federal requirements for homeschoolers seeking college admission and financial aid
Trip to college
High Tech High Foundation
Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation
Fifty years of college choice: Social, political, and institutional influences on the decision-making process
Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.
Meeting the access challenge: Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars program
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class
Counseling and college counseling in America’s high schools
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions
The lost opportunity of senior year: Finding a better way
Informing public policy: Financial aid and student persistence
The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain
The role of student loans in college access
Pre-college outreach programs for low-income students: A literature review
Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools
Preparing for college: Building expectations, changing realities
Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers
Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations
Encouraging news for college bound foster youth
Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom
Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth
Financing higher education
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for 2003-04 by type of institution
Achievement in America
African American achievement in America
Latino achievement in America
U.S. Department of Education: The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit
Student aid and tax benefits: Better research and guidance will facilitate comparison of effectiveness and student use
The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel
Debt burden: A comparison of 1992-93 and 1999-2000 bachelor's degree recipients a year after graduating
Do and should financial aid packages affect students' college choices?
Foster youth: Tips for completing the FAFSA (2008-09)
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students
Student aid and postsecondary tax preferences: Limited research exists on the effectiveness of tools to assist students and families through Title IV student aid and tax preferences
Indiana dollars for scholars
Early commitment financial aid programs
Education Commission of the States: Postsecondary Issues
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
NCHEMS information center
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers
Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid
Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth
Addressing student loan repayment burdens: Strengths and weaknesses of the current system
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
Access and persistence: Fall 2005
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report
Lumina Foundation focus
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program
State higher education finance: FY 2004
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Financial access: What it is, what it isn't, and how to educate people about it
American student achievement institute
The state of college affordability in Indiana
More on affordability: Response to Tom Mortenson
Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
National Association of Street Schools
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
College Prep 101
Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CSCORE)
The Princeton Review
U Links
Building toward a better future: A college planning guide for students and their families
College Goal Sunday
Sallie Mae financial aid calculators
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
NDSFA: Recommendations for improving federal aid delivery
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Involving families in high school and college expectations
College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college
Addressing financial aid in college preparation programs
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
Perceptions of college financial aid among California Latino youth
College guidance
Scholarship Help
Changes in patterns of prices and financial aid
Grappling with the access problem
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
The impact of teacher experience
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Tuition fees and student financial assistance: 2010 Global year in review
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars
ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
A first look at the common core and college and career readiness
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Latino college completion: Florida
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army
Trends in student aid 2010
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11
Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
College completion toolkit
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
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
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Scaling community college interventions
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Critical choices: How colleges can help students and families make better decisions about private loans
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
The Division III financial aid reporting program: Review results 2005-06 through 2010-11: Executive summary
The economic value of higher teacher quality
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Maintenance of effort: An evolving federal-state policy approach to ensuring college affordability
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
How youth plan to fund college
The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Student debt 101
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Family factors and student outcomes
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Leadership to enhance college access and success
Indiana's guide to paying for college: Step-by-step tips to help high school seniors apply for financial aid
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
CollegeFish.org
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009
La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009 (Spanish language version)
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
National Center for Academic Transformation
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Afterschool Alliance
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention
Parent engagement toolkit
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Tuition-setting authority and deregulation at state colleges and universities
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
GetMeToCollege.org (How to prepare, pay for, and succeed in college for first-generation college students)
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
How America saves for college: 2010
The high school senior class of 2003-04: Steps toward postsecondary enrollment
Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Federal Student Aid strategic plan: FY 2011-15
More time for learning: Student participation in extended day programming at the UCCS Donoghue campus during the 2009-10 school year
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Know before you owe (student loans)
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Duration and intensity: No time for cutting corners
Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead
Assets & opportunity scorecard
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
ACE Toolkit for veteran friendly institutions
High debt, low information: A survey of student loan borrowers
Grading student loans
Survey of state tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities: 2010-11
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out
ETS: The Achievement Gap (website)
Latino college completion: California
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
41st annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2009-2010 Academic year
Student lending's failing grade
IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
Twenty-first Century Scholars Indiana college assistance and incentives resource book
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
The case for change in college admissions
National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Principal-counselor toolkit
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
Student debt and the class of 2011
Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
Cracking the credit hour
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary
A record one-in-five households now owe student loan debt
From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members
2012 Household financial planning survey
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Teaching in a learner-centered environment powered by digital learning
Borrowers on hold: Student loan collection agency complaint systems need massive improvement
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
California District Report Cards
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
42nd Annual survey report on state sponsored student financial aid
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Trends in college spending, 1999-2009
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
A disruptive look at competency-based education: How the innovative use of technology will transform the college experience
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success