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Author(s):College Board Advocacy & Policy Center
Title:The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Source:http://completionarch.collegeboard.org/
Date:2012
Organization:College Board Advocacy & Policy Center
Short Description:The Completion Arch is a web based tool that provides quick and easy access to national, state and initiative-level data that describe the progress and success of community college students.
Annotation:The Completion Arch is a web based tool that provides quick and easy access to national, state and initiative-level data that describe the progress and success of community college students. The Completion Arch was conceived to consolidate a set of common community college metrics and summarize the statistics in the form of state- and initiative-level indicators of student progress and success.
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Community Colleges
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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
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Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
Latino college completion: California
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
The undereducated American
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
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2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
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
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years
Community college and high school partnerships
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Grantmakers for Education
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Global Skills for Global Completion
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
The effects of public support on college attainment
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
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 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
The art of student retention
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Postsecondary Access and Success
National Council of La Raza
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
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
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
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Strategic directions in Indiana education
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Quality counts 2008
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
How much are college students borrowing?
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Common measures for college access and success
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
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
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From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
The economic case for higher education
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
The condition of education 2012 (Website)
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Healthcare
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Getting ready for success: Bridging the gap between high school and college in Tacoma, Washington
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
Cracking the credit hour
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
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Improving the odds for failing schools
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Western Policy Exchanges
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Snapshot report: Mobility
Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports
The economic value of opportunity youth
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
California District Report Cards
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Measuring efficiency in the community college sector
Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
A disruptive look at competency-based education: How the innovative use of technology will transform the college experience
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
An examination of the information technology job market
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
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
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
I-STEM Resource Network
State future workforce gap summaries
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
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
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
Enrollment status and outcomes
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
Retooling career and technical education
Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Accelerated learning for all
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
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Benchmarks: Indicators of effective educational practice
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Postsecondary education opportunity
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Measuring up 2004
College success programs
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
College InSight
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
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
Getting past go: Rebuilding the remedial education bridge to college success
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Understanding the working college student
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
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
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Latino college completion: Texas
The College Match Program
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
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
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Project WIn-Win
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
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 college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Everybody ready for college
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
A detection model of college withdrawal
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
What works in student retention 2010
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Latino college completion: State series
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Measuring inequity in school funding
The false promise of class-size reduction
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
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
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Transfer and articulation policies
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Student progression through developmental sequences in community colleges
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007
Why is college so expensive?
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
SREB State Data Exchange: 40 years and still counting: 2008-2009 highlights
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
The breaking through practice guide
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
A paradox of education progress
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
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: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later
Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Educational needs index
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
NCHEMS information center
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Examining college remediation trends in Indiana
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
College learning for the new global century
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Adult education participation in 2004-05
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
Alternatives to the grade point average as measures of academic achievement in college
Three-year graduation rates for associate students
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
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
Committing to student engagement: Reflections on CCSSE's first five years: 2007 findings
Accelerated developmental education project
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Student loans and public accountability
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
More student success: A systemic solution
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Windows on achievement and inequality
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Indiana college success coalition
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
The real technology challenge
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Who graduates in California?
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
Workers need training, not tough talk
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Economic state of young America
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Center for Law and Social Policy
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Project Complete
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
New England Journal of Higher Education
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
The dreaded "P" word: An examination of productivity in public postsecondary education
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Progress and gaps in college preparation policy
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
ACE Online Information Center
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Center for College Affordability and Productivity
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Flexible learning options for adult students
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
The future of middle-skill jobs
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
College 101 courses for applied learning and student success
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
2012 National survey of school counselors
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
Adult college completion toolkit
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
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?
Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
Cohort default rates in context
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Grapevine, Fiscal Year 2011-12
Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Preparing for college: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Science and engineering indicators 2012
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
US Students in overseas degree programs: Key destinations and fields of study
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
Snapshot report: Persistence
Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
Net migration from Mexico falls to zero-and perhaps less?
Latino college completion in 50 states
Opportunities and obstacles: Implementing stimulus-funded school improvement grants in Maryland, Michigan, and Idaho
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Is high school tough enough?
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America
Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011
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
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Third grade reading policies
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Labor market returns to sub-baccalaureate credentials: How much does a community college degree or certificate pay?
What is "career ready"?
The nation's report card: Science 2011
5 Education factors in focus
SREB State progress reports 2012
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students
Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
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
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition
Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education
Developmental Education Toolkit
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
What does a college degree cost? Comparing approaches to measuring "cost per degree"
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
New measures of student success in public higher education
Rising by Degrees
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
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
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Funding and access issues in public higher education: A community college perspective
The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges
Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators
Projections of education statistics to 2018
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
College choices for adults: Transparency by design
Sexual orientation and outcomes in college
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
The state of learning disabilities 2009
SREB Factbook on higher education
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Diverse issues in higher education
Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight
ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Education and economic competitiveness
Projections of education statistics to 2016
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
The state of American manhood
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Study of institutional research capacity and use of data at community colleges
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Colorado Reports
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
A state leader's action guide to 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
A call to action: Why America must innovate
Higher education accountability for student learning
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
Access to success initiative
What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research
Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
What is P-16? A primer for legislators - a practical introduction to the concept, language and policy issues of an integrated system of public education
Adult learners and new traditions in higher education
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Nontraditional undergraduates
The nation's report card: U.S. history 2006
Opening Doors project publications
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Educational Attainment in the United States 2006
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Schools to watch
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Recent STEM initiatives
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
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
Access and participation profiles
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Miles to go: Louisiana
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Bachelor's degrees awarded to men and women in Indiana 1970 to 2004
Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Improving access to the baccalaureate
Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004
Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success
Community College Research Center
What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children
By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
College completion: Additional efforts could help education with its completion goals
Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
State data systems and privacy concerns: Strategies for balancing public interests
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
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
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
The first year experience: Are we making it any better
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders
A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Time to Completion Web Site
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
College for all?
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
The Condition of Education 2010
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Building an early childhood professional development system
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes (Pathways to College Network Issue Brief)
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
College retention and graduation rates
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
Education pays 2010
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
They rallying call: Bring game changing results to developmental education: The colloquium on state policy support for developmental education innovation
The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars
A first look at the common core and college and career readiness
Closing the gap between high school and college
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
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
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
2004/2009 Beginning postsecondary students longitudinal study
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Trends in student aid 2011
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Operation College Promise
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Gender inequalities in education
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
New school year brings steep cuts in state funding for schools
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels
Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables
Research support for school counseling
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future

 

Indiana Pathways to College Network
5931 West State Road 46
Bloomington, IN 47404
voice: 812.876.5055
fax: 812.876.5051

Email: Scott Gillie scott@esi.cc
Meegan Isenhour meegan@esi.cc