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Author(s):Excelencia in Education
Title:Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Source:http://www.edexcelencia.org/system/files/lcc50_...
Date:2012
Organization:Excelencia in Education
Short Description:To inform and support state-level, institutional and community actions to increase Latino college completion, Excelencia in Education releases an executive summary and research-based fact sheets detailing the current status of Latino college attainment in all 50 states and the country. This executive summary synthesizes information on 50 state factsheets and builds on the national benchmarking guide.
Annotation:To inform and support state-level, institutional and community actions to increase Latino college completion, Excelencia in Education releases an executive summary and research-based fact sheets detailing the current status of Latino college attainment in all 50 states and the country. This executive summary synthesizes information on 50 state factsheets and builds on the national benchmarking guide. Each factsheet provides state level snapshots about Latinos in the educational pipeline, the equity gap between Latinos and whites in achievement, and examples of evidencebased practices increasing Latino degree attainment to inform more intentional efforts to increase degree attainment.
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
More student success: A systemic solution
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Strategic directions in Indiana education
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Postsecondary Access and Success
Retooling career and technical education
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Latinos in secondary education
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
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
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Education and incarceration
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Just for the kids
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
Indiana State Profile
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Knocking at the college door: California state report
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
What's wrong with guys?
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students
Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Postsecondary education opportunity
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
Access to postsecondary education for undocumented students
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy
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
Latino youth and the pathway to college
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card
Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
Cal-SOAP
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
The changing landscape of American public education: New students, new schools
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Grantmakers for Education
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
The breaking through practice guide
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Field guide for improving student success
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Project WIn-Win
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Three policies to reduce time to degree
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America
Leveraging data for college completion
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
The Future Ready Project
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
The case for change in college admissions
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
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
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
National Coalition for College Completion
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
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
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Transfer and articulation policies
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
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
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Improving community college success
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Improving the odds for failing schools
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Repository of resources for undocumented students
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Adult college completion toolkit
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
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
What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
2012 SREB Annual Report
From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges
Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College
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
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Student success in higher education
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
The degree qualifications profile
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Community college student survey
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Developmental education in community colleges
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
2011 Kids count data book: State profiles of child well-being:
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Mobility makers
Advocacy in action toolkit
Operation College Promise
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
The hidden costs of community colleges
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Mind the (other) gap: State profiles
Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
How much are college students borrowing?
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
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
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
Center on Education and the Workforce
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Education Trust-West
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Global Skills for Global Completion
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
Education pays 2010
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Bridge Partnership
Indiana educational attainment of the population 25 years and over: 1940 to 2000
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Measuring up 2006
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Gender gap grows
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
The Progress of education reform: Hispanic achievement
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
Data sources for improving college access and success
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment
They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education
School relationships foster success for African American students
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Leading by example
For better science, just add color
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Funding Gaps 2006
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
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; Colorado state report
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Washington Data and Reports
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Recent STEM initiatives
College learning for the new global century
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
Correctional education facts
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Ensuring academic success for English learners
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Latinos in elementary education
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity
The path to prosperity: A policy of investment
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
School Redesign Network
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
The Breakthrough High School project
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
McNair scholar handbook
New England Journal of Higher Education
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Economic mobility project
Economic mobility of black and white families
The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Center for Law and Social Policy
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
Deciding on postsecondary education
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Education watch 2009
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
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Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Facts for education advocates
Flexible learning options for adult students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
The public realities of private student loans
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
Language rights: An integration agenda for immigrant communities
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Gateway to College
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Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Community colleges under stress
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
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The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
Enrollment status and outcomes
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
What every college access practitioner should know: About the needs of latino students and their families
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
Windows on achievement and inequality
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
Indiana college success coalition
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Learning in a new key
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
State of college readiness for Latino students
Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005
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
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)
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Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
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Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
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Enacting diverse learning environments: Improving the climate for racial/ethnic diversity in higher education
Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit
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A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap
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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
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities
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The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
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Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
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Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
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States' progress toward high school restructuring
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace
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Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Where are the Black scientists?
Accelerated learning for all
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Enhancing student success in education: Summary report of the NPEC Initiative and National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)
The benefits of racial/ethnic student groups: A psychologist explains
AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students
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One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
First generation college students: A literature review
Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later
Education Trust, Inc
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth
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In state tuition for undocumented immigrants
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Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
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Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
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Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states
Measuring up 2004
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
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Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004
Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
The art of student retention
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
Reaching parents: The role of Latino parents in their children's education
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The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Center for Student Opportunity
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Latinos and financial aid: Applying and receiving 2007-2008
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Understanding the working college student
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
CollegeMeasures.org
Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Is school funding fair? A national report card
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Community College 2.0
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
A paradox of education progress
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
National Center for Academic Transformation
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
IPEDS Data Center
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Cohort default rates in context
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
The false promise of class-size reduction
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Everybody ready for college
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
A detection model of college withdrawal
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
What works in student retention 2010
Closing the gap between high school and college
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children
Adult College Completion Network
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Science and engineering indicators 2012
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
Net migration from Mexico falls to zero-and perhaps less?
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Cracking the credit hour
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
The economic case for higher education
The nation's report card: Science 2011
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
What is "career ready"?
National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce
"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
Common measures for college access and success
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy