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Author(s):	Alliance for Excellent Education
Title:	Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Source:	http://www.all4ed.org/files/CaughtCrisisSOC.pdf
Date:	2012
Organization:	Alliance for Excellent Education
Short Description:	Nationally, millions of students in grades 7–12 are at risk of dropping out of high school because of low literacy skills, poor attendance, and class failure. The absence of a college- and career-ready education for these students is a civil rights and social justice issue that the federal government cannot ignore.
Annotation:	Nationally, millions of students in grades 7–12 are at risk of dropping out of high school because of low literacy skills, poor attendance, and class failure. The absence of a college- and career-ready education for these students is a civil rights and social justice issue that the federal government cannot ignore. Unfortunately, many of these students come from groups that are underserved and underrepresented, therefore failing to ensure that they receive a high quality education will continue a cycle of poverty and disenfranchisement that the education system itself is intended to disrupt. This fact sheet provides information and policy issues for high school students of color and Native students in the United States, a group that makes up a significant portion of high school dropouts each year.
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Accountability and Productivity (K-12)

Achievement Gap

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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

The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)

Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model

The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

A next social contract for the primary years of education

The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families

Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?

Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America

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

Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement

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

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

State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?

Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education

The achievement gap where you live

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn

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

"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies

Postsecondary success

Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence

On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards

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

Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success

Closing the expectations gap 2011

The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy

Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers

The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

Is school funding fair? A national report card

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

How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

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

Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out

The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey

Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada

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

Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century

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

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals

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

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners

Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates

Education watch 2009

First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education

Examining American Indian perspectives in the Central Region on parent's involvement in education

Every nine seconds in America a student becomes a dropout: The dropout problem in numbers

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

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

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities

The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Early intervention program and college partnerships

McNair scholar handbook

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

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

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

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

A Better Chance.org

The future of public education in New Orleans

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

High school dropouts in America

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

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states

Native American culture: Education

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

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

Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education

Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates

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

Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured

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

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

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

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

Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities

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

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

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

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

Achieving diversity: Race neutral alternatives in American education

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

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

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

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

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

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives

African American achievement in America

A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children

Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs

The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

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

Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools

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

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

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

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

Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation

Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates

Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools

Catching the Dream

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

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

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

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

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

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)

Educational attainment in the United States: 2005

What works for Latino students

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

States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages

Latinos in secondary education

Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version

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

Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education

Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

Alliances for graduate education and the professoriate (AGEP)

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

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

Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English

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

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants

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

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

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

A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect

Closing the expectations gap 2007: An annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and work

Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991

Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels

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

Education and incarceration

Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society

Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices

Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country

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

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

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

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

Ensuring academic success for English learners

Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students

Achievement in America

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program

The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad

Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge

Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States

Beyond percentage plans: The challenge of equal opportunity in higher education

Latino youth and the pathway to college

The American diploma project: Overview of research

Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity

Locating the dropout crisis: Which high schools produce the nation’s dropouts? Where are they located? Who attends them

Raising minority academic achievement: A compendium of education programs and practices

High school reform - Issue brief

American student achievement institute

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

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

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

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

An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

Indiana's 2006 graduation rate

Tribal colleges, native studies programs, and Indian education

American Indian higher education consortium

National Indian Education Association

The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery

Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education

A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools

Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented

Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002

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

Opportunity in America: The role of education

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

Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans

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

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

Education Commission of the States: Research studies database

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

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

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

Focus on dropout factories: Associated press article spotlights low-performing high schools, draws criticism from many school officials

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool

Improving quality and equity in education: Inspriring a new century of excellence in teaching and assessment

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

Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)

Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies

Center for native education

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

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

Gates Millennium Scholars Scholarships

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

The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda

Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program

The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

Diverse issues in higher education

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system

Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up

What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover

Gateway to College

Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act

Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)

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

Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools

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

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results

Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams

Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools

Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students

Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

The consequences of dropping out of high school: Joblessness and jailing for high school dropouts and the high cost for taxpayers

From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs

Educational Policy Improvement Center

Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)

Using student achievement data to support instructional decision making

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

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

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

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

Diversifying the STEM pipeline: The model replication institutions program

Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004

HBCU distance learning 2010

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students

We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys

Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

The impact of teacher experience

Central Indiana Talent Alliance

Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges

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

Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males

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

Focus on the alternative school calendar: Year-round school programs and update on the four-day school week

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states

America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents

America's private public schools

Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

National Center on Intervention: RTI state database

Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08

How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?

Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams

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

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out

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

Complete College America

State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates

Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind

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

College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

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

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis

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

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

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

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

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

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project

Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs

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

Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates

The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions

The economic value of higher teacher quality

Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility

Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data

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

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

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

ESEA Briefing Book

Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)

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

Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators

Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education

What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs

Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings

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

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

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers

The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students

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

Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009

The hidden costs of community colleges

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

Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders

Principal-counselor toolkit

State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory

Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years

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

Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them

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

Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways

Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas

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

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?

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

From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model

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

Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures

Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion

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

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

Bullying and open enrollment

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

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools

Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation

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

Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce

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

State high school exit exams: A policy in transition

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

Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States

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

View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning

From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V

What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs

High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks

Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context

A systemic approach to implementing response to intervention in three Colorado high schools

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

K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program

Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency

The nation's report card: Science 2011

Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California

Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school

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

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers

Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States

Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative

Smart class-size policies for lean times

What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?

Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens

The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states

Teaching in a learner-centered environment powered by digital learning

Third grade reading policies

A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education

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

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

Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?

A dozen facts about k-12 education

Is high school tough enough?

Opportunities and obstacles: Implementing stimulus-funded school improvement grants in Maryland, Michigan, and Idaho

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

Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?

The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success

Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option

The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011

The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment reading 2011

Transforming education in America

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

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

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

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

The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals

State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement

Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth

Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states

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

Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation

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

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

Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region

Measuring inequity in school funding

A big apple for educators: New York City's experiment with schoolwide performance bonuses

New school year brings steep cuts in state funding for schools

A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion

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

Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning

A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)

Ramp-up to Readiness

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

School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America

American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour

Federal efforts to improve the lowest-performing schools: District views on school improvement grants

Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

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

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

The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children

Latino college completion: Florida

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010

The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings

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

A portrait of school improvement grantees

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

Wealth gaps rise to record highs between whites, blacks, and hispanics

Key considerations for serving disconnected youth

The undereducated American

What savings are produced by moving to a four-day school week?

Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

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

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)

Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice

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High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study

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Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies

Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement

State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report

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Why students drop out of school: A review of 25 years of research

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PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)

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American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report

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

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Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

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2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (State Reports)

2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (National Report)

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

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Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools

Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document

Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation

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Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

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Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles

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Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book

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State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP

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PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science

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Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary

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The 2010 Brown Center report on American education

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Moving English language learners to college- and career-readiness

How do American students measure up? Making sense of international comparisons

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National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation

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

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams

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Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

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Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

International Benchmarking Toolkit

Gallup student poll national report

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

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

Indiana by the numbers

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools

Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition

Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge

Evolving No Child Left Behind

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

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

Dropout prevention practice guide

School funding's tragic flaw

Morris K. Udall Scholarship

Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students

Science and mathematics education indicators

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

Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it

The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Federal Education Budget Project

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

Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA)

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The minds of boys

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

Dead ends: The need for more pathways to graduation for overage, under-credited students in New York City

Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes

National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)

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

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand

Racial disparities and the new federalism

Race, schools, and neighborhoods: Reducing barriers to achievement

Value-added analysis and education policy

Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

Alabama education quick facts 2007

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

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

Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men

The changing racial and ethnic composition of U.S. public schools

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

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

The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families

Access to success initiative

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

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Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives

What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice

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

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American Indian science and engineering society

Native American higher education initiative: Educating the mind and spirit

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card

Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

State of college admission 2007

User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools

Foundation for excellent schools

Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth

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

The nation's dropout crisis: Indiana's tool-box to help students succeed

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

Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student achievement

Issue brief - What students need, part 1: Dropout prevention and recovery

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

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

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

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

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

Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act

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

Education dedicated to black males still relevant

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores

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

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

Reflecting on reconnecting males to higher education

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

The education pipeline in the U.S., 1970-2000

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

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

Dropout prevention programs: Right intent, wrong focus, and some suggestions on where to go from here

Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes

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

A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children

Does diversity make a difference? Three research studies on diversity in college classrooms

The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve

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

Primary progress, secondary challenge

School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis

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

Our impoverished view of education reform

Annotated bibliography of minority achievement

The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Improving your child's education: A guide for African-American parents

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

Education Trust, Inc

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

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency

Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

A summary of research and publications on early childhood for American Indian and Alaska Native children

Engaging students, challenging the odds

Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools

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

Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

Hidden benefits: The impact of high school graduation on household income

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities

The segregation of American teachers

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action

Voices in urban education

A new way on school integration

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy

Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response

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

The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?

Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements

Education issues 2007

Low income student scholarships

Understanding high school graduation rates (updated): National and state-specific information

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Aligned expectations: A closer look at college admissions and placement tests

Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation graduate scholarship program

The ASCA national model

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

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students