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Author(s):Swail, W. S
Title:Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Source:http://www.studentretention.org/20065/0605_Stud...
Date:2006
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Short Description:This article discusses higher education programs and strategies that may either "help OR hinder student retention on campus."
Annotation:The second part in the "Institutional Strategies" series which discusses higher education programs and strategies that may either "help OR hinder student retention on campus." The author presents information related to several core areas of postsecondary education, ranging from recruitment and financial aid to curriculum and instruction. This information consists of brief descriptions of effective practices for increasing student retention.
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Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
Does public funding for higher education matter?
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
More student success: A systemic solution
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
The national articulation and transfer network
Access to success initiative
Engaging students, challenging the odds
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
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Diverse issues in higher education
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
College access and success state data
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Measuring up 2008
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher 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
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Enrollment status and outcomes
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
The male achievement gap in Indiana
Project Complete
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice
The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later
Data sources for improving college access and success
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
What student engagement data tell us about college readiness
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Collegiate learning assessement project
What works for Latino students
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
IPEDS Data Center
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
How much are college students borrowing?
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research
Research on retention and attrition
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
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
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
CollegeMeasures.org
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Closing the gap between high school and college
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Developmental education in community colleges
Community college and high school partnerships
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)
Common measures for college access and success
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
Cracking the credit hour
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
The condition of education 2011
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Latino college completion: California
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Steps taken on the path forward
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
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
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Operation College Promise
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
5 Education factors in focus
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
The economic case for higher education
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Graduate enrollment in science and engineering grew substantially in the past decade but slowed in 2010
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Snapshot report: Persistence
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
Pat Tillman Foundation
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
State policy profiles for completion by design
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
US Students in overseas degree programs: Key destinations and fields of study
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Cohort default rates in context
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Western Policy Exchanges
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
Adult College Completion Network
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Latino college completion: Texas
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Project WIn-Win
The Future Ready Project
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Adult college completion toolkit
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
The US STEM education model (simulation)
The degree qualifications profile
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Presidential perspectives: The 2011 Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university presidents
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Everybody ready for college
The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
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
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
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
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
ACE Online Information Center
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Rising by Degrees
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
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Education & the military spouse: The long road to success
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
Summer Search
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
YMCA
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
Indiana college completion rates 2007
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Just for the kids
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Lumina Foundation lessons: Places - and faces - that foster student success
Accelerated learning for all
A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
The context of "choice" in college pathways
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation
The first year experience: Are we making it any better
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
College Results Online
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
Postsecondary education opportunity
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Student Retention.org
Examining college remediation trends in Indiana
Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured
The art of student retention
Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Education and incarceration
Correctional education facts
Annotated bibliography: Perspectives in postsecondary education programs and student support interventions
Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
The state of American manhood
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
New England Journal of Higher Education
Strategic directions in Indiana education
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Economic mobility project
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
Windows on achievement and inequality
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
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
Retooling career and technical education
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
National Council of La Raza
The real technology challenge
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Committing to student engagement: Reflections on CCSSE's first five years: 2007 findings
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
New measures of student success in public higher education
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
The future of middle-skill jobs
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
I-STEM Resource Network
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce

 

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