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

The hidden costs of community colleges

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

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

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

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

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

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

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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

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

Mobility makers

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

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

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

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

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

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

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

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

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

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

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

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

The economic value of opportunity youth

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

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

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

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

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

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

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

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

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

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

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

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

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

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

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

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

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

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

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

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

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

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

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

The College Match Program

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

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

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

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

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

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Why access matters: The community college student body

State policy profiles for completion by design

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

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

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

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

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

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

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

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

Collegiate learning assessement project

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

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Who graduates in California?

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

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

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

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

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

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

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

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

Complete College America

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

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

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

Postsecondary success

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

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

College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs

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

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

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

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

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

The degree qualifications profile

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

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

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

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

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

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

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

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

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

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

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

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

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

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

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

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

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

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

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

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

One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas

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

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

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

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

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

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

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

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

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

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

Boosting postsecondary education performance

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

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

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

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

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

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

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

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

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

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

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

Scaling community college interventions

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

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

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

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

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

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

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

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

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

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

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

Transforming education in America

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

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

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

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

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

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

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

The condition of education 2011

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

Community college student survey

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

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

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

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

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

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

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

Developmental education in community colleges

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

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

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

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

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

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

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

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

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

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: 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

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

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

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

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

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

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

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

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

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

Field guide for improving student success

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas

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

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

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

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

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

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

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

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

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

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

The national articulation and transfer network

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

Data sources for improving college access and success

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

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

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

Does public funding for higher education matter?

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

College learning for the new global century

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

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

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

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

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

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

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

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

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

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

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

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

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

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

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

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

Engaging students, challenging the odds

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

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

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

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

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

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

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

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

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

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

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

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

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

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

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

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

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

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

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

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

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

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

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

A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

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

Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Insuring college failure risk

Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different

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

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

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

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

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

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

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

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

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

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

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

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies

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

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

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

National Center for Academic Transformation

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

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

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

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

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

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

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

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

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

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

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

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

CollegeMeasures.org

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

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

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

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

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

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

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

College completion toolkit

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

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

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

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

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

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

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

Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009

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

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

Improving community college success

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

Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

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

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

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

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

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

Advocacy in action toolkit

Hearing on non-traditional students

Leveraging data for college completion

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

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

On the road to success

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

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

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

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

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

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

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

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

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

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

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

National Coalition for College Completion

The undereducated American

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

Cracking the credit hour

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

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

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

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

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?

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

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

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

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

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

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

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

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

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

The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers

Common measures for college access and success

"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

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

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

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

An examination of the information technology job market

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

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

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

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

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

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

California District Report Cards

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

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

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

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

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

Project WIn-Win

The case for change in college admissions

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

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

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

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

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

Three policies to reduce time to degree

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

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

Operation College Promise

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

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

Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement

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

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

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

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

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

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

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

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort

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

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

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

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities

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

Cohort default rates in context

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

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

Latino college completion: Florida

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

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

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

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

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

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

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

Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits

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

What's it worth: The economic value of college majors

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

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

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

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

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

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

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

Projections of education statistics to 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closing the gap between high school and college

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

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

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

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

Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)

Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time

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

Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning

Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities

College InSight

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

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

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

Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success

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

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

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

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

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes (Pathways to College Network Issue Brief)

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08

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

The breaking through practice guide

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education

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

A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment

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

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

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

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

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

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

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

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

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

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

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

Growing What Works Database

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

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

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

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

Indiana by the numbers

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

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

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

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

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

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

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

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

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

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

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

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

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

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

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

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

Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

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

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

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

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

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

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

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

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

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

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

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Workers need training, not tough talk

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

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

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Access to success initiative

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

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

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

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

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

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

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

College success programs

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity

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

En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes

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

The art of student retention

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

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

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

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

Education and incarceration

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

What works for Latino students

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

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Colorado Reports

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

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

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

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

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years

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

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

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

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

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

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

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

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

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

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

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

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

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

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

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

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

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

Measuring up 2006

Improving access to the baccalaureate

Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students

Miles to go: Louisiana

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

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

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

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

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

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

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

Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers

To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

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

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

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

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

What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction

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

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

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

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

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

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

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

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

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

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

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

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

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

High school dropouts in America

Student loans and public accountability

Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement

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

Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges

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

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

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

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

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

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

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

The real technology challenge

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

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

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

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

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

Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

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

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Deciding on postsecondary education

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

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

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

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

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

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

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

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

I-STEM Resource Network

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

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

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

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

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates

Gateway to College

College access and success state data

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

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

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

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

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

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

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

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

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

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

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

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

Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college

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

How much are college students borrowing?

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

SREB Factbook on higher education

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

Summer Search

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

Community College 2.0

Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

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

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

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

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

Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

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

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

False fronts? Behind higher education's voluntary accountability systems

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

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

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

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

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

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

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

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

Understanding the working college student

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

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

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

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

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners

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

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

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

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

Ensuring success for returning veterans

HBCU distance learning 2010

Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos

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

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

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

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

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

A sound investment: The community college dividend

A detection model of college withdrawal

Presidential perspectives: The 2011 Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university presidents

DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed

A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee

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

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

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

Everybody ready for college

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

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

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

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

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

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

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

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

Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment

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

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

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

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

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

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

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

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

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

Improving the odds for failing schools

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions

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

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform

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

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

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

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

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

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

STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)

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

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

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

Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs

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

The Future Ready Project

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

Assuring academic quality in the 21st century: Self-regulation in a new era

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

Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda

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

Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college

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

The economic case for higher education

2012 SREB Annual Report

Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

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

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

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

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning

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

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

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

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

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

Regardless of the cost, college still matters

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?

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)

Adult college completion toolkit

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

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

Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices

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

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

Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house

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

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

Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.

The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

5 Education factors in focus

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

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

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

Net migration from Mexico falls to zero-and perhaps less?

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

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

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

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

Graduate enrollment in science and engineering grew substantially in the past decade but slowed in 2010

The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?

High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators

National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report

Changing the conversation about productivity: Strategies for engaging faculty and institutional leaders

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

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates

Latino college completion: California

Gender inequalities in education

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

Latino college completion: Texas

Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

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

2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)

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

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

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)

Trends in college pricing 2011

Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08

Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations

The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

Measuring efficiency in the community college sector

Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education

College completion: Who graduates from college, who doesn't and why it matters

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

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out

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

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

Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools

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

Western Policy Exchanges

The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

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

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

Snapshot report: Mobility

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

Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable

Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments

Student success in higher education

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

En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

The role of mentoring in college access and success

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

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

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

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

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

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

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

Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity

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

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

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

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

What works in student retention 2010

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

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

Community college and high school partnerships

Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?

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

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

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

Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

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

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

Education pays 2010

The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?

A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

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

The College Completion Agenda

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

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

Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field

Global Skills for Global Completion

The nature of innovation in the community college

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

Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed

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

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

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

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

SREB State Data Exchange: 40 years and still counting: 2008-2009 highlights

Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

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

The Condition of Education 2010

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools

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

The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges

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

A next social contract for the primary years of education

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

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

State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation

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

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

IPEDS Data Center

Making high school students into "college material"

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Aligning state approval and regional accreditation for online postsecondary institutions: A national strategy

The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states

Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery

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

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

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

ACE Online Information Center

Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research

Are student employment and academic success linked?

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

Rising by Degrees

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

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

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

The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business

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

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

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

State future workforce gap summaries

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

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

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

The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

Student persistence in college: More than counting caps and gowns

Diverse issues in higher education

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

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

College For Every Student

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

Project Complete

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

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

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

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

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

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States

Trends in college pricing 2008

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

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

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

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

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

Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America

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

McNair scholar handbook

Early intervention program and college partnerships

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

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

More student success: A systemic solution

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

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

Quality counts 2008

The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools

Promising practices for community college developmental education

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

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

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

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

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

Economic mobility project

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

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

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

Alabama education quick facts 2007

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

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

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

Learning in a new key

Retooling career and technical education

Accelerated developmental education project

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

Leadership programs for community college professionals

The family: America's smallest school

Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

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

A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars

Postsecondary education opportunity

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

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds

State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer

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

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Do grants matter?

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

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

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states

The first year experience: Are we making it any better

The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model

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

Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04

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

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

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

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

Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

Bridging the gap between high school and college

CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success

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

The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana

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

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

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

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

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

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

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

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

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

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

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

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

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

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

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice

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

Just for the kids

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

Accelerated learning for all

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

Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation

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

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

Indiana college completion rates 2007

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

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

Opening Doors project publications

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

The ASCA national model

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Earnings by attainment

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Level of educational attainment

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future

Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy

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

Three-year graduation rates for associate students

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Knocking at the college door: California state report

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree

Tour of the male student mind in American higher education

The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity

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

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

Educational Attainment in the United States 2006

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

2009 NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) Reports by School

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

Nontraditional undergraduates

Student African American Brotherhood

Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school

Correctional education facts

Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

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

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

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

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

Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future

Schools to watch

Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02

Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

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

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

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

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

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

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

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

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

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

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

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

A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002

Financial aid issues for students from low income families

Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04

Trends in college pricing 2006

Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities

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

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds

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

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Missed opportunities revisited: New information on students who do not apply for financial aid

Federal student loan debt:1993-2004

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships

American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

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

Institutional graduation rate for 1985 entering cohorts

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

One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity

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

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Debt burden: Repaying student debt

Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

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

Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt

Projections of education statistics to 2014

Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success

First generation college students: A literature review

Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations

Gender differences in participation and completion of undergraduate education and how they have changed over time

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

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

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

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

Indiana higher education opportunity data book

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

School relationships foster success for African American students

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

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

National Council of La Raza

Education and economic competitiveness

A college access contract

Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

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

Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

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

College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools

The Breakthrough High School project

Higher education accountability for student learning

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

Postsecondary Access and Success

The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools

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

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

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

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

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

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

From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college

Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Projections of education statistics to 2016

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

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

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation

Windows on achievement and inequality

HippoCampus

Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites

Collaborating for success

The male achievement gap in Indiana

The education success program

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

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

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

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care

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

The future of middle-skill jobs

Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)

The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us

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

Measuring up 2008

Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support

The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

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

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

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

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

New England Journal of Higher Education

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

Condition of education 2008

Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight

Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

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

The future workforce of Indiana

Community colleges under stress

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

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

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

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

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

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

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

Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate

The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Considerations for state colleges and universities in a post-recession America

Time to Completion Web Site

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

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

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

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

A matter of degrees: Tomorrow's fastest growing jobs, and why community college graduates will get them

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

Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future

The role and relevance of rankings in higher education policymaking

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities

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

Projections of education statistics to 2018

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

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

The spaces between the numbers: Getting international data on higher education straight

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

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

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

Public institution and university system financial conditions survey

Transparency by design

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

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

Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems

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

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

What educators should learn from ER

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

Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs

Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students

Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

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

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States

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

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

SREB/Go Alliance

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

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

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

Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges

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

Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations

The effects of public support on college attainment

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

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes

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

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

Digest of Education Statistics, 2009

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

Why is college so expensive?

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit

Update on the community college baccalaureate: Evolving trends and issues

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

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

From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs

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

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness

State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success

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

Latino college completion: State series

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

Who subsidizes whom? An analysis of educational costs and revenues

Steps taken on the path forward

Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports

Snapshot report: Persistence

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

American Association of Community Colleges 2011 Advocacy Toolkit Factsheet

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

America's youth: Transitions to adulthood

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

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

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

Adolescent literacy

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

Assets & opportunity scorecard

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

Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents

Latino college completion in 50 states

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance

It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

ACE Toolkit for veteran friendly institutions

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels

Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America

Trends in student aid 2011

Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:

Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

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

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

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

Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs

Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations

Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards

Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty

Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative

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

Accomodating student veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder: Tips for campus faculty and staff

Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges

Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it

Boosting college completion for a new economy

One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success

Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school

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

Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation

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

Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter

The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings

Don't count us out: How an overreliance on accountability could undermine the public's confidence in schools, business, government and more

Impacting college-going and completion rates in your community: Taking a systems approach

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

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

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

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations

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

Digest of Education Statistics 2011

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

What is "career ready"?

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

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

SREB State progress reports 2012

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

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

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

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

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

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

The student debt crisis

Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis

Undergraduate teaching faculty: The 2010-11 HERI faculty survey

Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011

Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action

The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training

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

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

The first year of high school

The missing "one-offs": The hidden supply of high achieving, low-income students