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Author(s):College Board Advocacy & Policy Center
Title:The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
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Date:2012
Organization:College Board Advocacy & Policy Center
Short Description:2012 catalog of practices and programs implemented by CollegeKeys Compact members to expand options for students from low-income backgrounds.
Annotation:2012 catalog of practices and programs implemented by CollegeKeys Compact members to expand options for students from low-income backgrounds. Includes winning programs from the 2012 Innovation Awards.
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Low-Income Students
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Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Global Skills for Global Completion
Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
Project U-turn
The connection between health and high school dropout
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Summer Search
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Financial aid in theory and practice
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
BC AVID: Early implementation report
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
What works for Latino students
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Student African American Brotherhood
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
College learning for the new global century
Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
National college access network
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success
Pre-college outreach programs for low-income students: A literature review
Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers
Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Just and efficient college finance
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
College success programs
Pathways to college access and success
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes
Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Operation College Promise
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Mobility makers
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Dual enrollment for high school students
A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time
Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
The undereducated American
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Center on Education and the Workforce
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
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
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
How college pricing undermines financial aid
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Evaluate mentoring programs
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Adolescent literacy
The economic value of opportunity youth
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Adult college completion toolkit
College 101 courses for applied learning and student success
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
2012 National survey of school counselors
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet