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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
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The condition of education 2012 (Report)
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http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012045.pdf
Date:
2012
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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
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The Condition of Education 2012 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 49 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to a closer look at high schools in the United States over the past twenty years.
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The Condition of Education 2012 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 49 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to a closer look at high schools in the United States over the past twenty years. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available. The 2012 print edition includes indicators in three main areas: (1) participation in education; (2) elementary and secondary education and outcomes; and (3) postsecondary education and outcomes.
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Accountability and Productivity (K-12)
Accountability and Productivity (Postsecondary)
Achievement Gap
Data
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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion
Elementary School
High School
High School Graduation/Dropout Prevention
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
Middle School
National Perspectives
Persistence/Retention
Preparation/College Readiness
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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
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Science and mathematics education indicators
College For Every Student
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
The male achievement gap in Indiana
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
2012 National survey of school counselors
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Healthcare
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
The Future Ready Project
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Scaling community college interventions
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)
College completion toolkit
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
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
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
California District Report Cards
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
Leveraging data for college completion
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment reading 2011
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2006
Gateway to College
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Measuring up 2008
Early intervention program and college partnerships
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
The minds of boys
Federal Education Budget Project
Raising boys' achievement
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
The family: America's smallest school
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Retooling career and technical education
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
No county left behind: The persistence of educational deprivation in Indiana
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years
Educational Attainment in the United States 2006
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
The ASCA national model
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
States' progress toward high school restructuring
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2006
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
The first year of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 1: Review of current and proposed graduation indicators
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Improving education outcomes for foster youth: The Guardian Scholars Project Year 1
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004
Data sources for improving college access and success
The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
Measuring up 2004
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Collegiate learning assessement project
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
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
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Making good on a promise: What policymakers can do to support the educational persistence of dropouts
From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges
Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
Summer Search
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Education Equality Project
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
Field guide for improving student success
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
Mini-digest of education statistics, 2009
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories
Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2008
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Developmental education in community colleges
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
CollegeMeasures.org
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
The College Completion Agenda
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
National Center for Academic Transformation
Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
AYP results for 2010-11
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Hearing on non-traditional students
Transforming education in America
Snapshot report: Mobility
What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
2004/2009 Beginning postsecondary students longitudinal study
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009
The nation's report card: Findings in brief: Reading and mathematics 2011: National assessment of educational progress at grades 4 and 8
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Latino college completion: Florida
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
The undereducated American
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
The false promise of class-size reduction
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)
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
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
The first year of high school
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students
Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
ED Data Express
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
The degree qualifications profile
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
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
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
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: Teacher effectiveness
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
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
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
Alternative schools and programs for public school students at risk of educational failure: 2007-08
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
State test score trends through 2007-08: Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
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
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
ACE Online Information Center
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Using student achievement data to support instructional decision making
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Growing What Works Database
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Research on retention and attrition
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Improving accountability in public education
U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Campaign for High School Equity
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
Stats Indiana
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
The condition of education 2006
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
Adult education participation in 2004-05
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
College success programs
Latino youth and the pathway to college
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
African American achievement in America
Latino achievement in America
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success
Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend
Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success
Baccalaureate and beyond: A descriptive summary of 1999-2000 bachelor's degree recipient
National High School Center
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Institutional graduation rate for 1985 entering cohorts
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002
The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the common core of data: School years 2001-02 and 2002-03
The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference
Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth
Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform
Success for All Foundation
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
What works clearinghouse
Implementing graduation counts: State progress to date
P-16 Data systems: An alignment status report
Forum guide to education indicators
Colorado Reports
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
The real technology challenge
School Redesign Network
Learning in a new key
High school dropouts in America
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
The national articulation and transfer network
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
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
More student success: A systemic solution
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
The state of American manhood
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
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
Indiana by the numbers
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Chasing the high school graduation rate: Getting the data we need and using it right
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11
5 Education factors in focus
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
The economic case for higher education
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Cracking the credit hour
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
First-time Kindergartners in 2010-11: First findings from the Kindergarten rounds of the early childhood longitudinal study, Kindergarten class of 2010-11
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Common measures for college access and success
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
An examination of the information technology job market
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline
Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
New school year brings steep cuts in state funding for schools
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
The College Match Program
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders
US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Student success in higher education
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Improving community college success
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
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
Why access matters: The community college student body
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Parents want to know
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
State future workforce gap summaries
The future workforce of Indiana
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Evolving No Child Left Behind
Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
The education success program
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors
State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
Access to success initiative
Postsecondary Access and Success
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Rethinking high school: Five profiles of innovative models for student success
The Breakthrough High School project
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Accelerated developmental education project
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Developing the STEM education pipeline
Differential grading standards among high schools
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Digest of Education Statistics
African American students and U.S. high schools
Latino students and U.S. high schools
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges
The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the Common Core of Data: School years 2002-03 and 2003-04
Bachelor's degrees awarded to men and women in Indiana 1970 to 2004
Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers
OECD Programme for international student assessment
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Reforming education in Indiana: High achievers speak out
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Primary progress, secondary challenge
The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad
When it comes to school, girls rule
Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy
Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools
Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Preparing students for success in college
Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
Postsecondary education opportunity
School relationships foster success for African American students
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation
Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness
State education reforms – Standards, assessment, and accountability
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
The nation's report card: U.S. history 2006
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
Latinos in secondary education
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Recent STEM initiatives
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Dropout rates in the United States: 2001
Dual enrollment of high school students at postsecondary institutions: 2002-03
Indiana's dropout prevention tool-kit: A legislative primer
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
The nation's dropout crisis: Indiana's tool-box to help students succeed
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
Schools to watch
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
Finishing high school: Alternative pathways and dropout recovery
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Center on Reinventing Public Education
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
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
BC AVID: Early implementation report
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Mapping state proficiency standards onto NAEP scales: 2005-2007
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Trends in the use of school choice: 1993-2007
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Why students drop out of school: A review of 25 years of research
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (National Report)
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Closing the expectations gap 2010
The effects of public support on college attainment
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
State test score trends through 2007-08, Part 5: Are there differences in achievement between boys and girls?
New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
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
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
What works in student retention 2010
Focus on the alternative school calendar: Year-round school programs and update on the four-day school week
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Web tables: Choosing a postsecondary institution
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
Understanding the working college student
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Education pays 2010
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Student victimization in U.S. schools: Results from the 2007 school crime supplement to the national crime victimization survey
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Snapshot report: Persistence
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Principal-counselor toolkit
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
Shifting trends in special education
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
ESEA Briefing Book
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills
Expanded measures of school performance
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Don't count us out: How an overreliance on accountability could undermine the public's confidence in schools, business, government and more
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
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
Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
What is "career ready"?
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
2012 SREB Annual Report
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
A detection model of college withdrawal
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Grantmakers for Education
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
America's private public schools
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Which achievement gap?
The high school senior class of 2003-04: Steps toward postsecondary enrollment
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000
A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
The rise of college student borrowing
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
7th Annual AP report to the nation
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
The Center for Public Education
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
Achieve Standards Alignment Tool
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Insuring college failure risk
Gauging the gaps: A deeper look at student achievement
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Council for Exceptional Children
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (State Reports)
Family factors and student outcomes
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET): Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
What role do school leaders play in turning around low-performing schools?
School turnaround teachers: Competencies for success
College for all?
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Education Trust-West
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
The achievement gap where you live
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Afterschool Alliance
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Teacher salaries and benefits: 2003-08
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities
Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model
Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2006-07
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery
Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education
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
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
Parsing the achievement gap II
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)
National education standards: Getting beneath the surface
How much are college students borrowing?
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done
Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide
Indian students and college preparation
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
Who's counted? Who's counting? Understanding high school graduation rates
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
Middle Start
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
Strategic instruction model
Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Peak experiences
The connection collection: School-family-community connections database
Education watch online
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Correctional education facts
Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
The nation's report card: Civics 2006
Nontraditional undergraduates
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data
Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`
Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
The first year experience: Are we making it any better
Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways
Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
What’s wrong with the guys
Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States
The education pipeline in the U.S., 1970-2000
Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000
Educational attainment of the population 25 years and over, by state
Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class
The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success
Getting honest about grad rates: How states play the numbers and students lose
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Indiana higher education opportunity data book
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
First generation students in postsecondary education: A look at their college transcripts
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients and their opinions about education in 2003
Losing our future: How minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis
Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood
Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Examining college remediation trends in Indiana
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
NCHEMS information center
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now
Pathways to college access and success
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
Educational needs index
Education commission of the states: Online high school policy database
What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement
The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators
Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
Smart boys, bad grades
American FactFinder
The art of student retention
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
Improving math performance
Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A
Washington Data and Reports
Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school
YMCA
Dropping out of high school and the place of career and technical education: A survival analysis of surviving high school
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
ACT high school profile report: National
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
Workers need training, not tough talk
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
National dropout prevention center for students with disabilities
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007
What works clearinghouse: Middle school math
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
HomeworkSpot
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying employment readiness skills and the skills for on-the-job success
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
New England Journal of Higher Education
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
1.5 Million homeschooled students in the United States in 2007
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
College tools for schools
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Indiana Graduation Plan Statute
Schools, skills, and synapses
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
The future of middle-skill jobs
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap
Literacy instruction in the content areas: Getting to the core of middle and high school improvement
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2012
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century
Graduate enrollment in science and engineering grew substantially in the past decade but slowed in 2010
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
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
The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm
Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
Regardless of the cost, college still matters
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report
Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
