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Author(s):Chenoweth, K.
Title:It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
Source:http://www.dciu.org/922102814025680/lib/9221028...
Date:2009
Organization:Phi Delta Kappan
Short Description:Schools that have been successful teaching classrooms of high-poverty, high-minority students share a number of common qualities. One of their most significant characteristics is that they organize their schools in ways that support student learning.
Annotation:Schools that have been successful teaching classrooms of high-poverty, high-minority students share a number of common qualities. One of their most significant characteristics is that they organize their schools in ways that support student learning. For example, they provide time for teachers to learn with and collaborate with each other which helps improve the quality of teaching, ensures more consistency across grade levels, and develops better relationships among the teachers.
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Accountability and Productivity (K-12)
Achievement Gap
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Evidence-based Interventions/Promising Practices
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Low-Income Students
Middle School
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2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
Principal-counselor toolkit
Assessing deeper learning
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
The economic value of opportunity youth
Duration and intensity: No time for cutting corners
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years
Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
The current status of school counseling outcome research
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Project U-turn
Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement
Retaining Teacher Talent Study
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards
Empowering effective teachers: Strategies for implementing reforms
Background and context for equity audits
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
Using student achievement data to support instructional decision making
Student Success Skills
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Breakthrough Collaborative
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
Focus on the alternative school calendar: Year-round school programs and update on the four-day school week
Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Everybody ready for college
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states
Response to Intervention policy
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
African American students and U.S. high schools
Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Creating a college-going culture guide
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
National Center for Summer Learning
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
All Kinds of Minds
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
School reform and improvement database
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
Middle-class schools for all
White students are racially isolated
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Value-added analysis and education policy
Effective instruction: An inconspicuous strategy for dropout prevention
The future of public education in New Orleans
Busting the myth that poor, urban schools can't succeed
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges, and long-range plans
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
Facts for education advocates
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
The accountability illusion
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
States' progress toward high school restructuring
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
School Redesign Network
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Standards for quality online teaching
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
The segregation of American teachers
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Our impoverished view of education reform
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:
RTI Progress monitoring tools chart
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Response to Intervention resources for high schools
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Planning a school-based mentoring program
Research support for school counseling
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
P-20 governance
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
Changing schools: A look at student mobility trends in Chicago public schools since 1995
Field guide for improving student success
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
No Excuses University Network
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
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
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
The breaking through practice guide
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Teaching in a learner-centered environment powered by digital learning
Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
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
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
A systemic approach to implementing response to intervention in three Colorado high schools
The first year of high school
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
What we know about dual enrollment
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains
The College Match Program
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
A big apple for educators: New York City's experiment with schoolwide performance bonuses
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
The road to high-quality early education
Adolescent literacy
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Teaching children well: New evidence-based approaches to teacher professional development and training
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
Conflicted: Faculty and online education, 2012
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
California District Report Cards
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
A dozen facts about k-12 education
2012 National survey of school counselors
The common core state standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education
Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2012
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
SparkAction.org
Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?
How do middle-school grade configurations impact student achievement and behavior?
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Indiana's Growth Model (for measuring student achievement)
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Whole-school reform: Transforming the nation's low-performing high schools
Making high school students into "college material"
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:
Financial education in TRIO programs
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of comprehensive school reform programs
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Closing the gap between high school and college
What do you want in an afterschool program?
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Cracks in the ivory tower? The views of education professors circa 2010
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
The achievement gap where you live
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
The Condition of Education 2010
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students
Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Project GRAD
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Voices in urban education
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
Educational equity center at AED
Education watch online
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Strategic instruction model
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
The ASCA national model
Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
What works for Latino students
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Ensuring academic success for English learners
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices
Improving math performance
What's Fair?
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Colorado Reports
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
The Everyone Graduates Center
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
The Equity Project
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Commonwealth Corporation
Deciding on postsecondary education
Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Condition of education 2008
School funding's tragic flaw
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
Federal Education Budget Project
Learn and Serve America
Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap
I-STEM Resource Network
Quality counts 2008
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
Who graduates in California?
Effective literacy and English language instruction for English learners in the elementary grades
Mental health in school and school improvement: Current status, concerns, and new directions
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer
Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum
Race, schools, and neighborhoods: Reducing barriers to achievement
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Encouraging girls in math and science
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
The minds of boys
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Dropout prevention practice guide
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
Connecting schools, families, and communities: Stories and results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education investments
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
The study of implementation in school-based preventative interventions: Theory, research, and practice
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements
Background on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
See Forever Foundation
Gateway to College
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
The President's Forum
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Campaign for High School Equity
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
Council of the Great City Schools
Child trends: Education
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
NCLB and high schools
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
25 Steps to effective developmental education
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
First ask, then listen: How to get your students to help you teach them better
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
A college access contract
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Planning resources for teachers in small high schools
The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
Names, expectations and the Black-White test score gap
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Accelerated learning for all
Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Latino students and U.S. high schools
The promise of Baldrige for K-12 education
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
CPS: A leader in AP growth
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Miles to go: Louisiana
Jonathan Kozol interview transcript: Source material for "Segregation and its Calamitous Effects, America's "Apartheid" Schools"
Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Kids Count state-level data online
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Locating the dropout crisis: Which high schools produce the nation’s dropouts? Where are they located? Who attends them
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
Education Trust, Inc
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Achievement in America
African American achievement in America
Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap
Helping children move from bad schools to good ones
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform
Cal-SOAP
A teacher like me: Does race, ethnicity, or gender matter
The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
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
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
Parent engagement toolkit
2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
The numbers we need: Bringing balanced scorecards to education data
SREB/Go Alliance
Tiered intervention on the high school level
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
America's private public schools
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
School connectedness and meaningful student participation
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
What new faculty need to know about assessment
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts
Are bad schools immortal?
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Quick stats fact sheet: High schools in the United States
HBCU distance learning 2010
Digital learning now! Ten elements of high quality digital learning
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
The degree qualifications profile
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy
Beyond the bake sale: A community-based relational approach to parent engagement in schools
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Teacher and staff activities to create a college-going culture
Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Mind the (other) gap: State profiles
Ringing the bell for K-12 teacher tenure reform
Gold Star School Counseling
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Achievement gap patterns of grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students in reading and mathematics
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Retaining teacher talent: The view from Generation Y
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Time for learning: Education policy whitepaper
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs
Center on Innovation and Improvement
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
The nation's report card: Science 2011
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
8th Annual AP report to the nation
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Evaluate mentoring programs
AYP results for 2010-11
Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment reading 2011
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
Getting teacher evaluation right: A brief for policymakers
Parents want to know
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
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)
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
Shifting trends in special education
What savings are produced by moving to a four-day school week?
Measuring inequity in school funding
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
Early college designs
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Latino college completion: California
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens
Expanded measures of school performance
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
The condition of education 2011
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Congressional budget action for fiscal year 2012 and its impact on education funding
Documenting and archiving service-learning over time: It's not just a story anymore
Dual enrollment for high school students
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
Five ways education pays initiative
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
After the stimulus money ends: The status of state k-12 education funding and reforms
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
More time for learning: Student participation in extended day programming at the UCCS Donoghue campus during the 2009-10 school year
Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
Data for action 2011
Transforming education in America
Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
ETS: The Achievement Gap (website)
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
Opportunities and obstacles: Implementing stimulus-funded school improvement grants in Maryland, Michigan, and Idaho
Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states
MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Supporting education policy and practice through common data standards: A policymaker's guide
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Third grade reading policies
Cracking the credit hour
College Greenlight
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
A five year comparison between an extended school year and a conventional year school: Effects on academic achievement
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
Toward reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Ready by 21
YourWordsToday.org
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
The nature of innovation in the community college
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Moving targets: What it now means to make adequate yearly progress under NCLB
Does closing schools cause educational harm? A review of the research
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
Complete College America
The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
And after high school? A pan-Canadian study of grade 12 students in French-language schools in minority settings: Educational aspirations and plans to pursue a career in their home regions -- Executive Summary
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
Creating jobs and supporting homeless students
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Gauging the gaps: A deeper look at student achievement
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Enrollment management, Inc.: External influences on our practice
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
The 2010 Brown Center report on American education
Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
Now what? Imperatives and options for common core implementation and governance
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do teachers need to know?
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign
Education pays 2010
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Children of immigrants: 2008 state trends update
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
ED Data Express
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
RTI Wire: Your site for RTI resources
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
Pathways to college access and success
Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
P-16 Data systems: An alignment status report
Minority student achievement network
National Association of Street Schools
What works clearinghouse
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Latino achievement in America
First generation college students: A literature review
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success
Losing our future: How minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis
Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors
Achieving equitable educational outcomes with all students: The institutions' roles and responsibilities
High Tech High Foundation
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Talent Development High Schools
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
A new way on school integration
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
Diversity, school, family, and community connections
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
National College Access Program Directory
Supporting high school students in the transition to college
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
American Indian student achievement in Montana public schools: Features of the achievement gap and policy prescriptions
Indian students and college preparation
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics
Differential grading standards among high schools
Funding Gaps 2006
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Timing and duration of student participation in special education in the primary grades
Expanding learning time in high schools
Teaching and learning across the class divide
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Education issues 2007
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
Brown at 50: King's dream or Plessy's nightmare
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
Implementing evidence-based practices: six "drivers" of success
Seven activities for enhancing the replicability of evidence-based practices
The national articulation and transfer network
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
The Breakthrough High School project
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
A resource guide for adolescent literacy
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Improving accountability in public education
Learning Point Associates: Data for school improvement
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Parsing the achievement gap II
Gallup student poll national report
Interventions for struggling readers
Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done
The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools
Schools, skills, and synapses
Intervention Central
The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Indianapolis Star Data Central: School profile reports
EdVisions Cooperative
Black Alliance for Educational Options
Collaborative for acadmic, social, and emotional learning (CASEL)
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers
Closing the achievement gap: School, community, family connections
Examining American Indian perspectives in the Central Region on parent's involvement in education
Indiana Partnerships Center
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
HomeworkSpot
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college
Improving quality and equity in education: Inspriring a new century of excellence in teaching and assessment
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)
Starfish Initiative
Racial disparities and the new federalism
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment
Ohio's career development program
Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

 

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