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Title:Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
Source:http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/03/...
Date:2012
Organization:Center for American Progress
Short Description:In light of recent developments, this report is intended to dig into Race to the Top (RTT) to get a better sense of what exactly was happening within the states that won the grants. What was going well? What was going wrong? What early lessons could be drawn for future federal education initiatives? To answer these questions, the authors enlisted a team of researchers to investigate each state’s RTT efforts.
Annotation:In light of recent developments, this report is intended to dig into Race to the Top (RTT) to get a better sense of what exactly was happening within the states that won the grants. What was going well? What was going wrong? What early lessons could be drawn for future federal education initiatives? To answer these questions, the authors enlisted a team of researchers to investigate each state’s RTT efforts. The researchers spoke to key stakeholders and examined research and implementation documents. They also evaluated the states on their efforts, benchmarking their success against a set of key indicators. The ratings for each state are available on page 15 of this report.
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Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
Closing the expectations gap 2011
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
Which achievement gap?
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Closing the expectations gap: 2006
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
Education in the age of accountability: A research focus of the Urban Institute
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Doing What Works - Research based education practices online
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap
Dropout prevention practice guide
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
College For Every Student
Fixing No Child Left Behind
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Science and mathematics education indicators
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Windows on achievement and inequality
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
The Equity Project
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
No Excuses University Network
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Improving accountability in public education
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Perspectives on the key K-12 legislation of 2009
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
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
Changes in Graduation Rates by State (Progress and Challenge Indexes)
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
Are public schools really losing their "best"? Assessing the career transitions of teachers and their implications for the quality of the teacher workforce
Who graduates in California?
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
The ASCA national model
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
States' progress toward high school restructuring
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
What works clearinghouse
All over the map: State policies to improve the high school
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
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
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
Education watch online
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Everybody ready for college
Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?
The nation's report card: Science 2009
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
The 2010 Brown Center report on American education
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Measuring inequity in school funding
A big apple for educators: New York City's experiment with schoolwide performance bonuses
Expanded measures of school performance
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Research support for school counseling
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
The condition of education 2011
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
Are bad schools immortal?
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
SparkAction.org
Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools
Center on Innovation and Improvement
IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Tiered intervention on the high school level
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
The National Indian Education Study
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of comprehensive school reform programs
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses
NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports
Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory
After the stimulus money ends: The status of state k-12 education funding and reforms
State education agency funding and staffing in the education reform era
Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
Principal-counselor toolkit
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
The hidden costs of community colleges
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers
Parents want to know
Revamping the teacher evaluation process
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
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
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Smart class-size policies for lean times
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
2012 National survey of school counselors
The common core state standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Putting a price tag on the Common Core: How much will smart implementation cost?
State aid to nonpublic schools
California District Report Cards
End-of-course exams
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Supporting education policy and practice through common data standards: A policymaker's guide
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?
What we know about dual enrollment
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Congressional budget action for fiscal year 2012 and its impact on education funding
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
Early warning indicator systems
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Assessing deeper learning
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Evaluate mentoring programs
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment reading 2011
Closing the expectations gap 2010
Family factors and student outcomes
Moving targets: What it now means to make adequate yearly progress under NCLB
Ringing the bell for K-12 teacher tenure reform
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools
State test score trends through 2007-08, Part 5: Are there differences in achievement between boys and girls?
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Gold Star School Counseling
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
No time to delay: Delivering the statewide data systems California's students deserve
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
A five year comparison between an extended school year and a conventional year school: Effects on academic achievement
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma
The economic value of higher teacher quality
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Planning a school-based mentoring program
Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens
Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Digital learning now! Ten elements of high quality digital learning
PreK-Grade 3: Which reading and literacy practices matter most?
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Measuring adequate yearly progress: What "other" factors besides reading and math
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Cracks in the ivory tower? The views of education professors circa 2010
ED Data Express
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Advancing high school reform in the states: Policies and programs
American Indian student achievement in Montana public schools: Features of the achievement gap and policy prescriptions
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Losing our future: How minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge
Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CSCORE)
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
An historical overview of revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary education, by state: Fiscal years 1990-2002
Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Leading the conversion process: Lessons learned and recommendations for converting to small learning communities
Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Deciding on postsecondary education
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Education Equality Project
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Interventions for struggling readers
Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Student Success Skills
2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being
Study of the effectiveness and efficiency of charter schools in Indiana
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
School reform and improvement database
No Child Left Behind - standards, assessment, and accountability
Learn and Serve America
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
School funding's tragic flaw
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
I-STEM Resource Network
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
Indianapolis Star Data Central: School profile reports
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
College access and success state data
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
Measuring up 2008
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
Intervention Central
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
American Diploma Project Network: State Profiles
The Everyone Graduates Center
Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
Foundation for Education Excellence
Using student achievement data to support instructional decision making
Field guide for improving student success
Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades
The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Mapping state proficiency standards onto NAEP scales: 2005-2007
Council of the Great City Schools
National Center for Summer Learning
Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it
One in 31: The long reach of American corrections
The study of implementation in school-based preventative interventions: Theory, research, and practice
Collaborative for acadmic, social, and emotional learning (CASEL)
The national articulation and transfer network
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies
Mental health in school and school improvement: Current status, concerns, and new directions
The future of public education in New Orleans
Projections of education statistics to 2016
Value-added analysis and education policy
The proficiency illusion
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
National Council of La Raza
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Brown at 50: King's dream or Plessy's nightmare
Expanding learning time in high schools
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
National High School Center
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Implementing graduation counts: State progress to date
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school
Staying on course: Standards based reform in America's schools
National Dropout Prevention Centers
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Just for the kids
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Recent STEM initiatives
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students
Education watch 2006 state summary reports
Miles to go: Louisiana
Success for All Foundation
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students
The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020
Chidren's Budget 2010
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
America's private public schools
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
Update on Indiana school referrenda
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
What do you want in an afterschool program?
Closing the gap between high school and college
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
Now what? Imperatives and options for common core implementation and governance
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Don't count us out: How an overreliance on accountability could undermine the public's confidence in schools, business, government and more
Operation Military Kids
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)
Don't stop collaborating - Just stop creating new collaboratives
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
Why students drop out of school: A review of 25 years of research
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Making graduation a priority
School turnaround teachers: Competencies for success
Extended-day Learning Opportunities Online Resource Center
Time for learning: Education policy whitepaper
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?
Education Bill Tracking Database
How do middle-school grade configurations impact student achievement and behavior?
Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?
Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
Parent engagement toolkit
2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
RTI Action Network: High school resources
The achievement gap where you live
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Understanding the common core state standards
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
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
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
The Center for Public Education
High school remediation
Pathways to College Network
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Retaining teacher talent: Teaching for a living
State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates
Retaining teacher talent: The view from Generation Y
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk
Alignment and the states: Three approaches to aligning the national assessment of educational progress with state assessments, other assessements, and standards
Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Achievement gap patterns of grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students in reading and mathematics
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Data for action 2011
Teaching children well: New evidence-based approaches to teacher professional development and training
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Year two of implementing the common core state standards: States' progress and challenges
Adolescent literacy
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
10 Pieces of advice from students for teachers
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
The nation's report card: Findings in brief: Reading and mathematics 2011: National assessment of educational progress at grades 4 and 8
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
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
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Third grade reading policies
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
ETS: The Achievement Gap (website)
Competing for school improvement dollars: State grant-making strategies
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
Opportunities and obstacles: Implementing stimulus-funded school improvement grants in Maryland, Michigan, and Idaho
Is high school tough enough?
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Common Core implementation workbook
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Promoting work-based learning: Efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Service learning in the United States: Status of institutionalization
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
New policies should align with existing goals and plans for children and youth
On the road to success
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
College Board swing state education survey
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
Cracking the credit hour
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
State high school exit exams: A policy in transition
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
What impact will NCLB waivers have on the consistency, complexity, and transparency of state accountability systems
Accountability issues to watch under NCLB waivers
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
Undergraduate teaching faculty: The 2010-11 HERI faculty survey
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator
Conflicted: Faculty and online education, 2012
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
8th Annual AP report to the nation
State pre-k assessment policies: Issues and status
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Science and engineering indicators 2012
Grapevine, Fiscal Year 2011-12
The economic value of opportunity youth
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Kindergarten entrance ages: Highlights
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
More time for learning: Student participation in extended day programming at the UCCS Donoghue campus during the 2009-10 school year
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
State policies on homeschooling
Does closing schools cause educational harm? A review of the research
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Transforming schools to meet the needs of students: Improving school quality and increasing learning time in ESEA
Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A
Impact of homework on student achievement
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement
Gauging the gaps: A deeper look at student achievement
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Diversifying the STEM pipeline: The model replication institutions program
Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy
Recommendations for state postsecondary data systems: A report from state data experts
Supplemental educational services non-regulatory guidance
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Empowering effective teachers: Strategies for implementing reforms
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students
Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs
The breaking through practice guide
Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Project U-turn
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
The connection between health and high school dropout
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Funding education equitably: The "comparability provision" the move to fair and transparent school budgeting systems
Parents' guide to student success
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Align new policies with existing efforts to collaborate
Changing the odds for children and youth community profile: Northern Kentucky: Building a leadership council
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Early college designs
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
Basic concepts and definitions for privacy and confidentiality in student education records
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
The undereducated American
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Number of instructional days/hours in the school year
Dual enrollment for high school students
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
State of metropolitan America: The new metro minority map: Regional shifts, in Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks from Census 2010
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
2011 ACT national and state scores: State reports
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Ready by 21: Making quality count
Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
The impact of teacher experience
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Database of Indiana school referenda
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
School connectedness and meaningful student participation
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD): Responsiveness to Intervention (links to many resources)
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Strategic instruction model
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Top American research universities
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
Projections of 2003-04 high school graduates: Supplemental analyses based on findings from who graduates? Who doesn't?
Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education
Kids Count state-level data online
All over the map: State policies to improve the American high school
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do
Building the foundation for bright futures: Final report of the NGA task force on school readiness
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Ensuring academic success for English learners
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness
Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Reading next: A vision for action and research in middle and high school literacy
The American diploma project: Overview of research
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
High school graduation rankings and rates for fifty states 2002
The graduation gap: Using promoting power to examine the number and characteristics of high schools with high and low graduation rates in the nation and in each state
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
School counselors by state, 2002
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices
National inventory of academic pathways
Our impoverished view of education reform
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school
Education reform resources
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Overview and inventory of state education reforms
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
Pathways to college access and success
Does diversity make a difference? Three research studies on diversity in college classrooms
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Diplomas count: An essential guide to graduation policy and rates
P-16 Data systems: An alignment status report
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
Education counts
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
NCLB and high schools
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
African American students and U.S. high schools
Latino students and U.S. high schools
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school
The promise of Baldrige for K-12 education
Black, White and Brown: Latino school desegragation efforts in the pre- and post- Brown vs. the Board of Education era
Aligned expectations: A closer look at college admissions and placement tests
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Understanding high school graduation rates (updated): National and state-specific information
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy
Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Education issues 2007
What works for Latino students
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices
Implementing evidence-based practices: six "drivers" of success
Child care and early education state-by-state data
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Culture of evidence
A college access contract
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states
Opportunity in America: The role of education
A science-based framework for early childhood policy
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Orphan Foundation of America
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community
Private K-12 schools lag far behind public schools in using federal education programs
Effective instruction: An inconspicuous strategy for dropout prevention
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
Ohio's career development program
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Aligning early learning, K-12, and postsecondary systems
The impact of afterschool programs that promote personal and social skills
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education (Database)
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
Expanding school time to expand student learning: Lessons learned and challenges remaining
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
The state of learning disabilities 2009
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Campaign for High School Equity
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Learning Point Associates: Data for school improvement
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
2009 ACT National and State Scores
Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices
Invisible: 1.4 percent coverage for education is not enough
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Background and context for equity audits
The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
The President's Forum
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
College readiness for all toolbox
Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992-2022 (State Profiles)
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
National School Lunch Program: State-level data FFY1989 to FFY2008
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within
Indiana Partnerships Center
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Black Alliance for Educational Options
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
College tools for schools
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Facts for education advocates
State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
Middle-class schools for all
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
The role of school counselors in serving students with disabilities
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability
Impacts of school-based career interventions on NCDG outcomes
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
All Kinds of Minds
Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles
The minds of boys
Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges, and long-range plans
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

 

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