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

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

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

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

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

Latino college completion: State series

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

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

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

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

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

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

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

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

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

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

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

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

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

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

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

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

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

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

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

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

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

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

Latino college completion: Florida

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

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

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

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Measuring up 2008

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

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

The national articulation and transfer network

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

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

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

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

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

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

Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

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

Growing What Works Database

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

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

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

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

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

The undereducated American

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

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

Mobility makers

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

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

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

Why access matters: The community college student body

The economic value of opportunity youth

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

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

Boosting postsecondary education performance

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

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

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

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

Healthcare

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

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

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

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

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

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

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

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

Latino college completion: California

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

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

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

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

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

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

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Postsecondary success

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

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

Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school

The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States

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

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

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

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

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

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future

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

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

Who graduates in California?

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

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

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

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

What works for Latino students

Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy

Indiana State Profile

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

YMCA

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Colorado Reports

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

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

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

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

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

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

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Economic mobility project

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

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

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

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

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

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

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

Buying college: What consumers need to know

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

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

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

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

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

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

Latino college completion: Texas

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

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

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

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

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

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

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

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

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

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

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

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

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

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

The economic case for higher education

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

Latino college completion in 50 states

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

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

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

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

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

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

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings

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

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

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

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

Transforming education in America

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

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

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

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

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

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)

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

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

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

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

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

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

Center on Education and the Workforce

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

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

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

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

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

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

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

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

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

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

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

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

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

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

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

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

Economic mobility of black and white families

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

State future workforce gap summaries

Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

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

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

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

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

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

Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Educational needs index

Education watch Alabama: 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

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

National Council of La Raza

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

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

Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

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

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

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

Collegiate learning assessement project

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

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

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

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state

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

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Postsecondary Access and Success

New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Education and the economy: An indicators report

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

As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality

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

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

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

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

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

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

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

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

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

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

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

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

The state of American manhood

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

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

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

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

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

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

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

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

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

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

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

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

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

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

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

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

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

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

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

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

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

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

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

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

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

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

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

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

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

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

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Education pays 2010

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

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

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

Boosting college completion for a new economy

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

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

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

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

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

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

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

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

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

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

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

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

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

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

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

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

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

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

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

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

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

Regardless of the cost, college still matters

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

Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

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

Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession

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

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

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

State policy profiles for completion by design

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

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

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

Improving the odds for failing schools

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

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

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

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

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012

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

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

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

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

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

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

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

2011 Kids count data book: State profiles of child well-being:

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

Three policies to reduce time to degree

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

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

Hearing on non-traditional students

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

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

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

A sound investment: The community college dividend

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

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

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

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

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

Gender inequalities in education

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

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

Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time

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

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

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

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

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

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

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Projections of education statistics to 2019

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

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

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

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

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

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

The degree qualifications profile

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

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

Complete College America

College InSight

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

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

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

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

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada

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

The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

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

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

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

Rising by Degrees

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

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

Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

Summer Search

SREB Factbook on higher education

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

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

The productivity argument for investing in young children

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

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

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

Center for Law and Social Policy

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

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

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

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

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

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

The future of middle-skill jobs

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

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

Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

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

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

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics

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

The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

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

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

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

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

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

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

The path to prosperity: A policy of investment

Retooling career and technical education

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Access to success initiative

What's wrong with guys?

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

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2005

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

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

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

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

Latinos in graduate education

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

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

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

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

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

Where are the Black scientists?

Leading by example

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

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

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

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

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

Educational opportunity for all?

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

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

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

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

Workers need training, not tough talk

The real technology challenge

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

School Redesign Network

A call to action: Why America must innovate

The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools

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

Knocking at the college door: California state report

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

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

First generation college students: A literature review

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

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

College success programs

In state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

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

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

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

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

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

Miles to go: Louisiana

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners

The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Just for the kids

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

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

Deciding on postsecondary education

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

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

"Careers for the future" education program

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

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

Economic state of young America

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

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

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

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Diverse issues in higher education

I-STEM Resource Network

Indiana R&D 2008: Meeting the global challenge for innovation

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

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Racial disparities and the new federalism

Promising practices for community college developmental education

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

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

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

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

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

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

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

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

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools

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

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

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

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success

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

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

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

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

The breaking through practice guide

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

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

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

Slip sliding away: An anxious public talks about today's economy and the American Dream

Community college student survey

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

From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

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

Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams

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

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

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

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

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

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

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

College for all?

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

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

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

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

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

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

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

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

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

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

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

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

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

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

The College Match Program

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success

The condition of education 2011

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

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

College completion toolkit

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

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

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

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

Improving community college success

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle

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

Leveraging data for college completion

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

HSIs 2009-10

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

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

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

On the road to success

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

Hard times: College majors, unemployment and earnings: Not all college degrees are created equal

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

California District Report Cards

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

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

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

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

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

The American middle class, income inequality, and the strength of our economy: New evidence in economics

Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

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

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

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

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

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

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

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

The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011

An examination of the information technology job market

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary

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

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

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

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

Common measures for college access and success

National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

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

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

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

How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession

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

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

Cracking the credit hour

Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

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

Adult college completion toolkit

2012 SREB Annual Report

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

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

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

What is "career ready"?

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

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

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

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

Common Core implementation workbook

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

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

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

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

American Association of Community Colleges 2011 Advocacy Toolkit Factsheet

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

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

Western Policy Exchanges

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

12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012

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

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

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

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

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

The hidden costs of community colleges

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

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

An economy that works: Job creation and America's future

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds

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

Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter

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

Using linked data to drive education and training improvement

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

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

Operation College Promise

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream

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

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

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

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

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM

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

Cohort default rates in context

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

Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

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

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

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

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

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

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

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

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

Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

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

Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

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

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

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

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

CollegeMeasures.org

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

Understanding the working college student

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

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

National Center for Academic Transformation

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

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

2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

Education Trust-West

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

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

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

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities

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

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

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

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

Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children

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

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

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

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

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes

The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century

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

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

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems

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

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

On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

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

Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

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

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

Field guide for improving student success

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

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

IPEDS Data Center

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

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

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators

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

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

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

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

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

How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?

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

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

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

Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

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

Project Complete

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

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

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

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

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

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

College access and success state data

The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital

The future workforce of Indiana

Investing in lasting change: Productivity and U.S. higher education

Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

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

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

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

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

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

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

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

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

Excelencia in education

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

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

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

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

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

The Progress of education reform: Hispanic achievement

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

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

2002 State new economy index

Does public funding for higher education matter?

Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

Data sources for improving college access and success

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

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce

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

Latino youth and the pathway to college

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

Gender gap grows

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Postsecondary education opportunity

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

Access to postsecondary education for undocumented students

How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04

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

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

Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Earnings by attainment

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

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Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

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The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

Quality counts 2008

Career pathways: A strategy for transforming America's workforce education systems to support economic growth

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

Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

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

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

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

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

Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds

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

How diversity affects teaching and learning

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

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

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

Washington Data and Reports

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

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

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

Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier

Engaging students, challenging the odds

The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students

For better science, just add color

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

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Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

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

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

Latinos in undergraduate education

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

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

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

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy

Fact book bulletin: College degrees benefit states and individuals significantly

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

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

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

College of Adult and Professional Studies

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

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

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

Funding Gaps 2006

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

The benefits of racial/ethnic student groups: A psychologist explains

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

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

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

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

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

Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Education and economic competitiveness

Projections of education statistics to 2016

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

The Breakthrough High School project

Learning in a new key

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

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

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

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

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

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

NCHEMS information center

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

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

Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work

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

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

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students

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

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

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

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources

SMASH Academy

Cal-SOAP

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children

Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi

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

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

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

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

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

Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy

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

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

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

The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings

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

The art of student retention

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

The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana

Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later

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

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

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

Kids Count state-level data online

Bridging the gap between high school and college

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

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

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

Collaborative efforts in student retention: A snapshot of best practices across the nation

Stats Indiana

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

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

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

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

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

College learning for the new global century

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

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

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

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

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

Education watch 2009

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

Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards

The Working Poor Families Project

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

Gateway to College

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

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

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

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

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

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

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

Language rights: An integration agenda for immigrant communities

Skills2Compete

America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond

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

College For Every Student

Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century

Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

McNair scholar handbook

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

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

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022

Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access

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

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

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

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools

Projections of education statistics to 2018

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

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

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

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

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

Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric

Trends in the higher education labor force: Identifying changes in worker composition and productivity

Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems

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

The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

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

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

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

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

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

Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

Higher education budgets and the global recession

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

Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

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

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

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

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

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

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

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

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

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

Community College 2.0

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

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

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures

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

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

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

A detection model of college withdrawal

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

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

Developmental education in community colleges

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

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

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08

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

Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system

The workplace realities

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas

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

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

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

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

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

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

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

Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

The College Completion Agenda

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

Ten facts about the recovery

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

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

Scaling community college interventions

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution

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

The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011

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

Steps taken on the path forward

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

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

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables

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

Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis

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

Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

Advocacy in action toolkit

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

STEM: State reports and state level analysis

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

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

Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education

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

The case for change in college admissions

The Future Ready Project

Project WIn-Win

Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children

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

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

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

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

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

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

Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?

Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

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

Prison vs. Princeton

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

Vendor product review: A consumer's guide to real-time labor market information

Measuring efficiency in the community college sector

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

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

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

Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices

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

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

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook

Downward mobility from the middle class: Waking up from the American Dream

5 Education factors in focus

Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations

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

Labor market returns to sub-baccalaureate credentials: How much does a community college degree or certificate pay?

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

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

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

SREB State progress reports 2012

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

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

The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes

"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

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

Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences

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

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

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

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

Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action

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

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

Innovations in labor market information and their application

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

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

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Trends in student aid 2012

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

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

ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology, 2012

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

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

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

Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts

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

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

The nation's report card: Science 2011

MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

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

No end in sight? The long term youth jobs gap and what it means for America

Does America promote mobility as well as other nations?

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

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

Repository of resources for undocumented students

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

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

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

Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance

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

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

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

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

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

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

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

It can be done, it's being done, and here's how

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

Assets & opportunity scorecard

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

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

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

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

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

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

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

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

Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

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

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

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

Women Employed

Most Americans see college as essential to getting a good job

National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report

A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

The global gender gap index: 2011

Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

America's youth: Transitions to adulthood

A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world

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

Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior

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

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

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

Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms

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

The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children

Research support for school counseling

Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges

Student success in higher education

National Coalition for College Completion

The false promise of class-size reduction

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

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

FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle

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

Implementing common core state standards and assessments: A workbook for state and district leaders

Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?

Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards

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

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

Latinos and financial aid: Applying and receiving 2007-2008

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

Grantmakers for Education

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

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

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

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

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

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation

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

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

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

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

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

A paradox of education progress

Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)

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

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Is school funding fair? A national report card

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

Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010

Central Indiana Talent Alliance

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

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

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

HBCU distance learning 2010

State and local policy for reconnecting youth

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

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

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

Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

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

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

Transfer and articulation policies

Closing the gap between high school and college

An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools

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

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

Breaking new ground: Building a national workforce skills credentialing system

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

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

Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Children of Immigrants Data Tool

What educators should learn from ER

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

Pew Hispanic Center Country of Origin Profiles

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

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

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

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

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

Maximizing the potential of older adults: Benefits to state economies and individual well-being

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year

U.Select - Your Guide to College Transfer

State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

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

Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning

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

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know

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

The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk

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

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

Financial education in TRIO programs

Insuring college failure risk

College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success

Help wanted: Postsecondary education and training required

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

Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education

A matter of degrees: Tomorrow's fastest growing jobs, and why community college graduates will get them

ACE Online Information Center

No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio

Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success

Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

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

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

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

Ucan: University and college accountability network (search tool to find private colleges and universities by state)

College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)

Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education

Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support

How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth

College choices for adults: Transparency by design

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

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation

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

Educational Policy Improvement Center

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Education and economic mobility

Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors

Enrollment status and outcomes

Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures

Windows on achievement and inequality

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

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

The male achievement gap in Indiana

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

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

Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)

Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education

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

K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships

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

Adult learners: A data and policy perspective

More student success: A systemic solution

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

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

Early intervention program and college partnerships

Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool

I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training

Strengthening state policies to increase the education and skills of low-wage workers

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

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

The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

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

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

Community colleges under stress

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

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

Facts for education advocates

Schools, skills, and synapses

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

Flexible learning options for adult students

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009

Educational policies for integrating college competencies and workforce needs: Cases from Brazil, Mongolia, Ukraine, and the United States

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

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

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

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Opportunity.gov

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

Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)

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

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

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

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

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

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

Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

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

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

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

The Indiana workforce: An employer's perspective

Catching the Dream

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

After prison: Roadblocks to reentry: A report on state legal barriers facing people with criminal records

The changing landscape of American public education: New students, new schools

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability

Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society

Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity

Education and incarceration

Correctional education facts

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

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

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

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students

Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth

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

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement

Measuring up 2006

Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

Indiana educational attainment of the population 25 years and over: 1940 to 2000

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage

The investment payoff: A 50 state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education.

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

State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer

21st century skills for 21st century jobs

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

The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act

State high school exit exams: A maturing reform

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

What’s wrong with the guys

Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states

Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement

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

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

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

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

Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south

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

Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth

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

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

Alabama education quick facts 2007

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

States' progress toward high school restructuring

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

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

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

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

The future of public education in New Orleans

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

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges

Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond

A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

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

Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007

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

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

College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education

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

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006

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

Effective multicultural curriculum transformation in "advanced" mathematics and "hard" sciences

Immigration debate resources

Is college right for your child?: How to weigh the pros and cons

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

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

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

Women, minorities, and persons with disabilties in science and engineering

Latino students and U.S. high schools

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

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

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

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

Creating a welcoming campus climate

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

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

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

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

Ensuring academic success for English learners

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

Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education

Women on the rise

2003 Graduation rates for 4-year and 2-year Title IV degree granting institutions by sector, race, and gender

Accelerated learning for all

Latinos in elementary education

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

Enacting diverse learning environments: Improving the climate for racial/ethnic diversity in higher education

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

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

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

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

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

Innovation in higher education: Public opinion survey results

State fiscal crises and cuts in higher education: The implications for access, institutional performance, and strategic reengineering

Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

Latinos in early childhood education

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

The chilly climate: Subtle ways in which women are often treated differently at work and in classrooms

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

Career and technical education's role in American competitiveness

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

Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

Transfer college quality and student performance

The context of "choice" in college pathways

National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

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

The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap

Opening Doors project publications

African American students and U.S. high schools

Setting the stage: Adults in Higher Education

Digest of Education Statistics

Three-year graduation rates for associate students

Dream it! Do it!

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

E4Me Ohio

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

Preparing Oklahoma students for the future

Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child

Educational Attainment in the United States 2006

Graduate Retention Program

Tour of the male student mind in American higher education

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

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

The nation's report card: U.S. history 2006

Findings and trends Fall 1990 - Fall 2000

High school planner: Your guide to planning for college

Student African American Brotherhood

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Millennials talk politics: A study of college student political engagement

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

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

Why rural matters 2007: The realities of rural education growth

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

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

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

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

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

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

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

Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success

Improving math performance

Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce

Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools

Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity

Student loans and public accountability

State of college readiness for Latino students

Higher education accountability for student learning

Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world

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

Community college enrollment

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

Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges

By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment

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

The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth

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

A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices

Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education

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

National college access network

1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients and their opinions about education in 2003

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

Improving your child's education: A guide for Latino parents

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

School relationships foster success for African American students

Adult learners and state policy

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Primary progress, secondary challenge

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Investment payoff: The benefits of a higher education in the Midwestern states

State higher education finance: FY 2004

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

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

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

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

High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities

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

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: How perceptions of costs and benefits affect access to education

Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

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

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college

Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

The educational, social, and economic benefits of making informed and considered career decisions

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

Student success: Statewide P-16 programs

From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth

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

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

Measuring up 2004

Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions

Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students

The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns

Access to community college for undocumented immigrants: A guide for state policy makers

Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom

Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

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

Underrepresented minorities shares of undergraduate enrollments

Boys and girls harbor

State systems of performance accountability for community colleges: Impact and lessons for policymakers

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

Bridge Partnership

Residence and migration for college freshmen for Indiana

Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

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

Cashing in on the GI bill

Projections of education statistics to 2015

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program

Connecting the dots: Multifaceted analyses of the relationships between student engagement results from the NSSE, and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success

Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education

2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states

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

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

Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography

Center for Student Opportunity

Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

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

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

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

The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law

Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation

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

Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly

Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms

Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program

The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success

Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework

Resources for businesses hiring formerly incarcerated persons

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

Lifelong learning accounts: Creating a partnership in lifelong learning

Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

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

The career pathways how-to guide

Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

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

Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems

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

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

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

The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance

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

Indiana Workforce Development: Education and training options (search training programs)

Think again: The connection between education and true independence

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

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

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

State education activities to support mission growth

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

Value of a college education (calculator)

Guidebook for incarcerated veterans in Indiana

The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007

Federal access policies and higher education for working adults

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

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

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

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight

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

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends

National Center on Education and the Economy

Institute for a Competitive Workforce

The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners

Science and mathematics education indicators

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Indiana college success coalition

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

Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites

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

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

Federal Education Budget Project

New England Journal of Higher Education

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Strategic directions in Indiana education

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

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

Breaking through: Factsheet

The landscape of noncredit workforce education: State policies and community college practices

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

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

From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

U.S. population projections: 2005-2050

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

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

The role and relevance of rankings in higher education policymaking

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation

Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992-2022 (State Profiles)

How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)

Ups and downs: Does the American economy still promote upward mobility?

The dreaded "P" word: An examination of productivity in public postsecondary education

From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus

Transparency by design

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2008 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2007-08, and 12-month enrollment 2007-08

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

The work-based learning self assessment tool

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools

Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration

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

The value of value-added data

Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing

Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

The effects of public support on college attainment

Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field

Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed

Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education

Mind the (other) gap: State profiles

Community college advocacy factsheet

State outlook: Fiscal and state policy issues affecting postsecondary education

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

Global Skills for Global Completion

Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses

Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization

Paving the way through paid internships: A proposal to expand educational and economic opportunities for low-income college students

Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation

California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College

Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

A next social contract for the primary years of education

Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana

Children of immigrants economic well-being

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011

The impact of teacher experience

The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making

What works in student retention 2010

Everybody ready for college

National Youth Employment Coalition

Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students

Presidential perspectives: The 2011 Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university presidents

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

Community college and high school partnerships

Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?

Ensuring success for returning veterans

Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways

California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference

Immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's education at home and at school in 1999-2000

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

Center on Innovation and Improvement

Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts

Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes (Pathways to College Network Issue Brief)

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

SREB State Data Exchange: 40 years and still counting: 2008-2009 highlights

Web tables - profile of undergraduate students: trends from selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08

Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards

Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states

Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference

For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices

If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement

Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04

Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?

Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars

Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing

Shifting trends in special education

Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education

Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments

Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education

Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09

What new faculty need to know about assessment

Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession

Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty

Higher education spending and the state fiscal stabilization fund, part 3: State case studies

Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures

Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030

College Search Database.com

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students

Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success

Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards

Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school

State of metropolitan America: The new metro minority map: Regional shifts, in Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks from Census 2010

Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation

The digital revolution and higher education: College presidents, public differ on value of online education

Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities

Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved

Workforce development economics 101: State by state snapshots

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career

Trends in student aid 2011

Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:

Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents

The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Adolescent literacy

State responses to the increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders

Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?

Solutions for America: Recommendations for the President and Congress from: Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers

Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states

A disruptive look at competency-based education: How the innovative use of technology will transform the college experience

The current health and future well-being of the American research university

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce

Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults

Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

Undergraduate teaching faculty: The 2010-11 HERI faculty survey

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners

A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools

Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context

Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure