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

Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education

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

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

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

Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates

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

Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?

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

The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence

"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student

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

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance

Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions

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

Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults

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

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

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

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

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

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

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

Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion

Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.

Field guide for improving student success

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond

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

The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress

The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

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

Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study

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

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

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

Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education

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

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

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

Community college student survey

Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states

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

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

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

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

Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

College completion toolkit

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

Leveraging data for college completion

Hearing on non-traditional students

The hidden costs of community colleges

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

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

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

Why access matters: The community college student body

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

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

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

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

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

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

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

Getting ready for success: Bridging the gap between high school and college in Tacoma, Washington

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

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

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

Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes

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

Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates

Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

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

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

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

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

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

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)

Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success

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

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

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

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

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

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

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

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

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

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

What works for Latino students

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

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

The national articulation and transfer network

A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students

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

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

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

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

Promising practices for community college developmental education

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis

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

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students

On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)

Complete College America

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

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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

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

Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

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

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

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

Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities

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

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

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

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

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

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

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

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

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

Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates

Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts

It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges

Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment

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

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

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

Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California

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

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

The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda

Mobility makers

Advocacy in action toolkit

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

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools

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

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

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

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

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

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

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

The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring

Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education

K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities

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

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

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

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

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

Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community

Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students

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

Latino college completion: Florida

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

Student success in higher education

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

Scaling community college interventions

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

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

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

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

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

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

Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color

Transforming education in America

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

Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era

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

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

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

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

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

Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

Boosting postsecondary education performance

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

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

From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members

The economic case for higher education

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement

Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education

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

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

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

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

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

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

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

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

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

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

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

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

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

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

College access and success state data

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

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

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

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

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

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

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

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

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

College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention

Community college and high school partnerships

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

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

CollegeMeasures.org

Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism

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

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

Postsecondary success

Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?

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

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

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

Retooling career and technical education

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

Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative

Measuring up 2006

Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

Engaging students, challenging the odds

Collegiate learning assessement project

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

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

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

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

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

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

The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success

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

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

Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

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

Preparing Oklahoma students for the future

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

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

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs

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

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

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement

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

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

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

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

Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

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

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

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion

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

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

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

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

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

The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma

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

Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges

Developmental education in community colleges

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

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

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

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

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

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

The effects of public support on college attainment

Evaluating student success interventions: 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

A next social contract for the primary years of education

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

National Center for Academic Transformation

Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence

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

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

Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

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

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

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

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

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus

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

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

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

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students

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

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

View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

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

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

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

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

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

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

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

State policy profiles for completion by design

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

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

National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession

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

Three policies to reduce time to degree

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

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

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

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

The College Match Program

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

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

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

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

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

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

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

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

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

Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment

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

Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education

The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care

Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents

Improving community college success

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education

Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid

Everybody ready for college

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

The degree qualifications profile

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

A first look at the common core and college and career readiness

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

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

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

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

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

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

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

Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

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

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

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

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

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

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

Buying college: What consumers need to know

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

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

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance

Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

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

The condition of education 2011

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University

The Future Ready Project

Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree

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

Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand

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

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

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

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

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

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

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

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

Improving the odds for failing schools

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

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

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

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

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

The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

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

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

What is "career ready"?

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

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

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

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

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

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

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

Cracking the credit hour

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

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

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

A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all

IPEDS Data Center

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

The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes

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

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

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

The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males

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: P-20 longitudinal data systems

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

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

Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)

Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships

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

Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states

Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders

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

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

Measuring up 2008

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature

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

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

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

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

The breaking through practice guide

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

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

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

Global Skills for Global Completion

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

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

Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas

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

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

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

Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice

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

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

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative

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

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

The College Completion Agenda

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing

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

Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

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

Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning

Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

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

Benchmarks: Indicators of effective educational practice

Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

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

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

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

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

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

Postsecondary Access and Success

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

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

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges

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

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success

Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success

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

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

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

Accelerated learning for all

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

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

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

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

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

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

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

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

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

Just for the kids

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

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

College learning for the new global century

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

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

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

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

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

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

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

Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

Miles to go: Louisiana

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

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

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

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

Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students

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

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

The context of "choice" in college pathways

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

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

What student engagement data tell us about college readiness

Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education

School relationships foster success for African American students

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

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts

The art of student retention

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

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

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

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

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

Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life

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

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

Opportunity in America: The role of education

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

LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11

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

A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

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

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

YMCA

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

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

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

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

Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students

New England Journal of Higher Education

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

I-STEM Resource Network

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

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

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

Strategic directions in Indiana education

Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Enrollment status and outcomes

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

Who graduates in California?

The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools

Quality counts 2008

Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

Windows on achievement and inequality

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

Grantmakers for Education

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

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

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

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth

Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?

Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students

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

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

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

Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010

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

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

Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college

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

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

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

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

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

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

Community College 2.0

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

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

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

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

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

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

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

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

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

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

State future workforce gap summaries

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

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

Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative

Growing What Works Database

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

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

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

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

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

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American 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

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

Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture

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

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

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

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

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

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports

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

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

For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

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

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

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

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

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

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

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

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

The road to high-quality early education

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

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

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

Western Policy Exchanges

The economic value of opportunity youth

Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer

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

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

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

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

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

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

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

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

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

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion

Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report

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

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

Latino college completion: California

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

Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

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

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

Project WIn-Win

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

Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers

Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education

Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education

The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence

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

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)

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

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

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

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

Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide

The undereducated American

National Coalition for College Completion

Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule

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

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

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

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

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

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

7th Annual AP report to the nation

A detection model of college withdrawal

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

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

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

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

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

2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males

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

Closing the gap between high school and college

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

Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures

What works in student retention 2010

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

The US STEM education model (simulation)

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

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

Ensuring success for returning veterans

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

A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment

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

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

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

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

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

Projections of education statistics to 2019

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

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

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

The false promise of class-size reduction

On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)

Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships

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

Boosting college completion for a new economy

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

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

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

The case for change in college admissions

Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

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

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

Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

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

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

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

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools

Data for action 2011

Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness

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

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

Snapshot report: Mobility

Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment

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

Measuring efficiency in the community college sector

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

2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues

Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07

Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?

Common core state standards & career and technical education: Bridging the divide between college and career readiness

Data quality campaign 2012 snapshot

Healthcare

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

The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain

5 Education factors in focus

2012 SREB Annual Report

Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy

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

Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure

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

Adult college completion toolkit

An examination of the information technology job market

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

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

2012 National survey of school counselors

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

Common measures for college access and success

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

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

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

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

Educational Policy Improvement Center

Sexual orientation and outcomes in college

How much are college students borrowing?

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

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

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

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

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

College readiness and high school-to-college success

10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts

2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

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

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Time to Completion Web Site

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

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

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

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

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

Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success

Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers

Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners

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

Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study

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

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

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

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

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

Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

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

Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction

College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.

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

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

Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions

A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools

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

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

Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states

Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics

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

Understanding the working college student

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

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

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

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

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

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students

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

The minds of boys

The male achievement gap in Indiana

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

More student success: A systemic solution

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

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

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature

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

Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact

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

Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future

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

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

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

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

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

McNair scholar handbook

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

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

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

National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8

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

Project Complete

Action plan: Educators/Policymakers

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

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

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

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

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

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

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

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

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

A call to action: Why America must innovate

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system

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

Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes

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

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

National Council of La Raza

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

Accelerated developmental education project

Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

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

Examining college remediation trends in Indiana

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

Does public funding for higher education matter?

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems

Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success

Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

State data systems and privacy concerns: Strategies for balancing public interests

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

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

Postsecondary education opportunity

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

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

NCHEMS information center

Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college

College success programs

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

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

Data sources for improving college access and success

Nontraditional undergraduates

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

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

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools

Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education

Education and the economy: An indicators report

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

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

Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform

Schools to watch

The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

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

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

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

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

Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

The career pathways how-to guide

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

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

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

Correctional education facts

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us

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

From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates

The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students

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

Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work

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

Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)

A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education

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

Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college

The adult learning gap: Why states need to change their policies toward adult learners

The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement

Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success

Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work

What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education

The American diploma project: Overview of research

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

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

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

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

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

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

First generation college students: A literature review

Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

State high school exit exams: A maturing reform

Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend

Male retention at the community college

First generation students in postsecondary education: A look at their college transcripts

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

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs use data to make decisions

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Bridge Partnership

Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Improving education outcomes for foster youth: The Guardian Scholars Project Year 1

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

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

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

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

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

Measuring up on college-level learning

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment

Educational needs index

Committing to student engagement: Reflections on CCSSE's first five years: 2007 findings

Workers need training, not tough talk

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

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

Access to success initiative

The Breakthrough High School project

Student loans and public accountability

American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

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

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

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

Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score

Alternatives to the grade point average as measures of academic achievement in college

Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree

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

How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

College For Every Student

Indiana college success coalition

Condition of education 2008

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

The state of American manhood

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)

Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008

Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

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

Student persistence in college: More than counting caps and gowns

Center for Law and Social Policy

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

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

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

The real technology challenge

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

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

A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes

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

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

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

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

Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time

Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda

Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

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

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

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

Why is college so expensive?

Student progression through developmental sequences in community colleges

Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment

Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

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

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

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

Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning

Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials

Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers

Participating Achieving the Dream Colleges

Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools

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

Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses

Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College

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

College InSight

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

What educators should learn from ER

Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

Getting past go: Rebuilding the remedial education bridge to college success

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

SREB/Go Alliance

The Condition of Education 2010

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

Developmental Education Toolkit

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

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

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

What does a college degree cost? Comparing approaches to measuring "cost per degree"

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

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America

How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)

The state of learning disabilities 2009

Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems

Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators

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

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

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

Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars

Education Equality Project

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

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

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

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

Flexible learning options for adult students

Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers

Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

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

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood

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

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide

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

Gateway to College

Community colleges under stress

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children

Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007

The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education

Achieve Standards Alignment Tool

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

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

Insuring college failure risk

College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Progress and gaps in college preparation policy

Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture

Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

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

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

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

The productivity argument for investing in young children

Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color

Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

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

A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences

Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City

The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners

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

An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students

The reality of college readiness 2012: National report

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

College 101 courses for applied learning and student success

Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness

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

Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context

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

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

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

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

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

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

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

Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook

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

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

Common Core implementation workbook

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

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

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

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

A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

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

2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

California District Report Cards

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

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

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers

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

Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform

Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

Adolescent literacy

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

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

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

US Students in overseas degree programs: Key destinations and fields of study

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

Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning

Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness

The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

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

Cohort default rates in context

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

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

Operation College Promise

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

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

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

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

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

Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards

Using linked data to drive education and training improvement

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

Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards

Expanded measures of school performance

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

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

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

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

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

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

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

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

Latino college completion: Texas

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

Gender inequalities in education

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

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

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

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

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

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

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

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

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

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

Research support for school counseling

The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

Transfer and articulation policies

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

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

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

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

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

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

Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009

Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables

What new faculty need to know about assessment

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

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

How college pricing undermines financial aid

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

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

Adult College Completion Network

Parents' guide to student success

Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars

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

The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders

Latino college completion: State series

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

What's it worth: The economic value of college majors

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

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

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011

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

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

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

Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline

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

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness

Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels

Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators

National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report

Impacting college-going and completion rates in your community: Taking a systems approach

Changing the conversation about productivity: Strategies for engaging faculty and institutional leaders

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

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

Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning

Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities

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

Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment

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

A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world

From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools

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

Trends in student aid 2011

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

2004/2009 Beginning postsecondary students longitudinal study

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

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

Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards

Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement

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

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

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

AYP results for 2010-11

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports

Prison vs. Princeton

Grapevine, Fiscal Year 2011-12

Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools

State responses to the increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries

Latino college completion in 50 states

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

Information constraints and financial aid policy

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

Is high school tough enough?

It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years

Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education

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

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness

Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers

Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda

Labor market returns to sub-baccalaureate credentials: How much does a community college degree or certificate pay?

No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

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

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

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

A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools

Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth

Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis

Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011

Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

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

Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas

Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

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

The challenge of college readiness

Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do

Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators

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

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference

The dreaded "P" word: An examination of productivity in public postsecondary education

Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools

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

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

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

BC AVID: Early implementation report

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

ACE Online Information Center

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

The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)

Research on retention and attrition

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

Trends in student aid 2009

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Transfer and articulation: Paving the way to degree completion

The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009

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

The role and relevance of rankings in higher education policymaking

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

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

College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system

High school remediation

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

Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education

Rising by Degrees

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

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

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

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

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

Schools, skills, and synapses

The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

The future of middle-skill jobs

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Outcome differences by developmental status and gender

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

Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education

Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards

Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

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

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

International Benchmarking Toolkit

Education watch 2009

Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers

The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

US Census Bureau: Educational attainment data

Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done

The public realities of private student loans

Center for College Affordability and Productivity

Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?

A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

Center on Education and the Workforce

College for all?

Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges

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

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

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table

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

Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

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

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

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

Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)

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

Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?

What does research say about 21st century skills?

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up

A five year comparison between an extended school year and a conventional year school: Effects on academic achievement

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

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

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

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

Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations

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

High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness

Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008

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

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

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

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

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

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

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

Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos

School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth

Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?

A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

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

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

College retention and graduation rates

Education pays 2010

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

They rallying call: Bring game changing results to developmental education: The colloquium on state policy support for developmental education innovation

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

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

For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices

Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students

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

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

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report

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

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

All Kinds of Minds

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022

Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer

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

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

The landscape of noncredit workforce education: State policies and community college practices

Low-income students and college success: More than money

The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

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

Economic state of young America

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

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

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

Adult learners: A data and policy perspective

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

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

For every 100 girls...

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

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

Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana

Educational Attainment in the United States 2006

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

Using posttesting to show the effectiveness of developmental/remedial college courses

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school

Dream it! Do it!

Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs

State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

Three-year graduation rates for associate students

Opening Doors project publications

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

Alabama education quick facts 2007

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college

School Redesign Network

Learning in a new key

The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

Higher education accountability for student learning

Education and public safety

Study of institutional research capacity and use of data at community colleges

Improving math performance

Update on advanced placement

Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07

Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system

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

Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

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

The family: America's smallest school

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

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

Education and economic competitiveness

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Creating a college-going culture guide

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006

Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04

Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid

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

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

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Community College Research Center

Effective college transition planning for students with learning disabilities: What does the research tell us?

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children

Involving families in high school and college expectations

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

Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity

Doors of opportunity opening or closing: We are using tax credits and tuition discounts to appease middle-class voters instead of expanding educational opportunity

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

Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems

Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students

State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards

State systems of performance accountability for community colleges: Impact and lessons for policymakers

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

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

Building a strong community partnership

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

Career-related predictors of work-bound and college-bound status of adolescents in rural and nonrural areas

Minority student retention and academic achievement in community colleges

The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how

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

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

Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education

Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now

State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions

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

What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Engagement by design

The first year experience: Are we making it any better

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

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

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

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

Expanding learning time in high schools

Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness

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

Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college

Reading--Young children's achievement and classroom experiences

Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

Differential grading standards among high schools

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test

EPAS®: A system that works

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

Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

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

The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay

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

A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier

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

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

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

Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success

A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes

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

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

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

Bridging the gap between high school and college

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

Education and incarceration

Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future

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

Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

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

Recent STEM initiatives

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

Adult education participation in 2004-05