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Author(s):Workforce Strategy Center
Title:Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
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Short Description:Identifies current best practices and programs in preparing foster care youth for career opportunities and economic self-sufficiency.
Annotation:The Workforce Strategy Center identifies current best practices and programs in preparing foster care youth for career opportunities and economic self-sufficiency. It also examines effective foster care programs and notable models outside the system, and has developed key principles and recommendations.
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Career Development
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Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs
Foster Youth
Non-traditional Students
Pell Grants
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Transition to College

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Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Costs, prices, and affordability
What every student should know about federal aid
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid
Going to the source: A practical way to simplify the FAFSA
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
How do I pay for college?
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
NSLDS student access: National sudent loan data system
GI bill: A reality check
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good
The art of student retention
NDSFA: The financial aid partnership
KnowHow2GO
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research
How do financial aid policies affect colleges? The institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship
Endless dreams: A video and curriculum to educate teachers about foster care
The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06
NCHEMS information center
Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America
Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
College preparation information from Peterson's Education Center
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library
College Compass
EducationQuest
Foster youth: Funding for college
Student aid and tax benefits: Better research and guidance will facilitate comparison of effectiveness and student use
Student financing of undergraduate education: 1999-2000
First generation college students: A literature review
In state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Paying for college: Changes between 1990 and 2000 for full-time dependent undergraduates
The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education
USA Funds
Postsecondary education opportunity
Advisory committee on student financial assistance
The promise and practice of prison programming
Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004
Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend
Collision course: Rising college costs threaten America’s future and require shared solutions
Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for 2003-04 by type of institution
A closer look at the President's proposal for changes in student assistance
Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
The policy of choice: Expanding student options in higher education
Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
Indiana’s postsecondary indicators: 2004 performance and descriptive indicators
Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice
The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain
The role of student loans in college access
Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship
Higher education act: Reauthorization status and issues
What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Just and efficient college finance
College Access: Indiana
Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Federal Student Aid (FSA)
Creating options 2007: Financial aid for individuals with disabilities
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Student loans and public accountability
Higher education accountability for student learning
Indiana's guide to paying for college
Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans
Get-recruited.com
StateVoucher.org (Education and Training Vouchers)
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
College.gov
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA)
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Condition of education 2008
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
The Student Guide for High School Seniors/College Students
Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
Strategic directions in Indiana education
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school
Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
Deciding on postsecondary education
Mythbusting: Breaking down confidentiality and decision-making barriers to meet the education needs of children in foster care
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Characteristics of private student loan borrowers who do not use federal education loans
Impact of college rankings on institutional decision making: Four country case studies
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
My future, my way: How to go, how to pay
The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability
Helping foster youth and wards of the court complete the FAFSA
Youth transitioning from foster care: Background, federal programs and issues for Congress
US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models
OEDb Online Education Database
FAFSA tips and resources for foster and unaccompanied youth without stable housing
USA Funds Unlock the Future
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Flexible learning options for adult students
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
Rethinking the middleman: Federal student loan guarantee agencies
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design
IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle
How much are college students borrowing?
Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)
Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps
The Canadian student financial aid system: The case for modernization
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
Does money matter? II
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
Stronger department of education oversight needed to help ensure only eligible students receive federal student aid
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study
Measuring the effectiveness of student assistance - Annual report 2006
“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research
Transitions -- First-generation students: A promising concept?
The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence
Do Perceptions Matter Regarding the Costs and Benefits of a Post-Secondary Education?
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary
Lowering student debt: Explaining the decline in the debt of university students in Manitoba
Canada's Tuition and Education Tax Credits
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Investing in their future: A survey of student and parental support for learning
Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers
Is university education in Canada more affordable than in the United States?: A Review of the Argument Presented in The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel
Deciding about post-secondary education: Hearing the voices of non-attendees
Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys
Why stop after high school?: A descriptive analysis of the most important reasons that high school graduates do not continue to PSE
A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management
How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college
The 2008 amendments to the Higher Education Act: Are we on the right track?
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
39th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid
IDA Pays: Examining the potential of education IDAs
Public institution and university system financial conditions survey
The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality
Paving the way: How financial aid awareness affects college access and success
Dedicated funding for higher education: Alternatives for tough economic times
An overview of tax benefits for higher education expenses
USA Funds: Indiana state resources
Institutions with approved programs for veterans to receive educational benefits
A brief history of veterans' education benefits and their value
Montgomery GI bill - active duty
Science bound program (for Indianapolis public school students)
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis
Official cohort default rates for schools
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs
Quick facts about financial aid and community colleges, 2007-08
FinAid: Income-based repayment
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006
Solving the data puzzle: A "how-to" guide on collecting and sharing information to improve educational outcomes for children in out-of-home care
Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs
Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Early intervention program and college partnerships
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Going2College.org
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Voice of adult learners united to educate (VALUE)
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Scholarship Program
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
38th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2006-2007 Academic year
Morris K. Udall Scholarship
Ron Brown Scholar Program
Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Ed Fund
Federal Aid First (Spanish Version)
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet (Spanish Version)
Trends in college pricing 2008
English-Spanish glossary of student financial aid and postsecondary education
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
YouthBuild USA
Parent and student guide to federal tax benefits for tuition and fees for tax year 2007
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc. Careers for the Future Scholarship 2009-2010
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers
How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
A college access contract
Trends in student aid 2007
Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events
Tips for parents with middle school teens: Countdown to college
Black college dollars: 2007-2008 Directory of scholarships for African-American students
Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
Foster care alumni of America
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
2006-2007 National directory of scholarships, internships, and fellowships for Latino youth
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
College planning resource directory
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
Project on student debt: State by state data
Wrestling rising costs with innovation
Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Mission: Possible!
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
Price isn't the only consideration: Look beyond the cost side of the equation
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
Education a Tu Alcance (Spanish Version)
Fund Your Future: Student Financial Aid Workbook
The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
Responding to the crisis in college opportunity
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality
College affordability in jeopardy: The rising price of higher education
Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states
Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability
Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century
Annotated list of Pathways research, papers, reports, and other publications by focus area
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Pell Grant recipients in selective colleges and universities
Student loan forbearance and its relationship to default
Designing a state student grant program: A framework for policy makers
When saving means losing: Weighing the benefits of college-savings plans
What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction
Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges
Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector
Workforce contingent financial aid: How states link financial aid to employment
Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works
Private loans and choice in financing higher education
Financial aid and scholarships for undocumented students
The education liason model
Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective
Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
Early commitment financial aid programs
Trends in student aid 2005
CollegeCosts.info
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
College Mentors for Kids
Accounting for state student aid: How state policy and student aid connect
35th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2003-04 Academic year
State higher education finance: FY 2003
2003 Status report on the federal education loan programs
Undocumented immigrant students: A very brief overview of access to higher education in California
Reframing the student loan costing debate: The benefits of competition
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Career-related predictors of work-bound and college-bound status of adolescents in rural and nonrural areas
InternationalScholarships.com
36th annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid, 2004 - 2005 academic year
Financial aid and postsecondary opportunity for nontraditional age pre-college students: The roles of information and education delivery systems
Taxing matters
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Mapping your future
Indiana family college savings program
State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana
Twenty-first Century Scholars Program
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families
It's my life: Employment
More on affordability: Response to Tom Mortenson
Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
Access and persistence: Fall 2005
Education Planner
State higher education finance: FY 2004
Pathways to college access and success
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid
Addressing student loan repayment burdens: Strengths and weaknesses of the current system
Federal requirements for homeschoolers seeking college admission and financial aid
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
The future of private loans: Who is borrowing and why?
National football league high school website: Academics
What keeps children in foster care from succeeding in school? Views of early adolescents and the adults in their lives
Effective approaches to supporting foster youth aging out of foster care
Money pals: Foster youth money guide series
Represent Magazine
The feasibility of delivering aid for college through the tax system
Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education
Catching the Dream
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Steps to success (English and Spanish Versions)
Consolidation loans: Redesign options and considerations
Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students
Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states
Pell grant shares of undergraduate enrollments
California trends in student aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04
Eliminating complexity and inconsistency in federal financial aid programs for higher education students: Towards a more strategic approach
National Center for College Costs
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
Perceptions of college financial aid among California Latino youth
Federal student aid for counselors
State of college admission 2007
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Measuring up 2006
Cashing in on the GI bill
Publications by Sean-Michael Green
National association of state approving agencies
GI bill education benefits
Bridge program planning guide
AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Don't get scammed on your way to college!
Feasibility of a student unit record system within the integrated postsecondary education data system
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students
Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for careers in athletics
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
Adventures in Education - High School (English and Spanish Versions)
Adventures in Education - Middle School (English and Spanish Versions)
College: Making It Happen
Lumina Foundation for Education: Adult learners
Break down the bill: What's it going to cost?
Tips for finding a college match: Characteristics your child should consider
The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity
Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers
Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position
Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
Where the scholarships are: How to develop a scholarship strategy
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Financial aid FAQ (frequently asked questions)
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Frequently asked questions
Scholarship guide
Frequently asked questions
Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP)
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Federal Student Aid: Loan Programs Factsheet
Federal Student Aid: Loan Programs Factsheet (Spanish language version)
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Federal Student Aid Data Center
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
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Indiana's guide to paying for college: Step-by-step tips to help high school seniors apply for financial aid
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Improving access to higher education by promoting saving
"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Paying for college: Students from middle-income backgrounds
Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
YourWordsToday.org
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
Indiana's Cash for College
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Student debt 101
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
College Resources for Parents
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Sample state legislation to extend foster care, adoption, and guardianship protections, services, and payments to young adults age 18 and over
After the FAFSA: How red tape can prevent eligible students from receiving financial aid
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
NASSGAP 40th annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2008-2009 academic year
National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) for Students
Pay scale: Which colleges are worth your investment (college cost comparison tool)
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
Financial aid at California community colleges: Pell grants and fee waivers in 2003-04
Web tables - trends in undergraduate stafford loan borrowing: 1989-90 to 2007-08
ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways
Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?
Federal Student Aid strategic plan: FY 2011-15
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
Web tables - trends in graduate borrowing: selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Piling it on: The growth of proprietary school loans and the consequences for students
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
Closing the gap between high school and college
What is the price of college? Total, net, and out of pocket prices in 2007-08
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
The rise of college student borrowing
How to support college-bound undocumented students: Advice for parents
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
Proposed legislative changes to the post-9/11 GI Bill: Potential implications for veterans and colleges
Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Who subsidizes whom? An analysis of educational costs and revenues
How college pricing undermines financial aid
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Everybody ready for college
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Trends in student financing of undergraduate education: Selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Still denied: How community colleges shortchange students by not offering federal loans
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Affordable at last: A new student loan system
Net tuition and net price trends in the United States: 2000-2009
Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
You can go! Educator resources
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Critical choices: How colleges can help students and families make better decisions about private loans
The distribution of grants and scholarships by race
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead
2011 Year in review: Global changes in tuition fee policies and student assistance
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress
Grading student loans
Survey of state tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities: 2010-11
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Know before you owe (student loans)
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
College is affordable: A pilot study
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process
Trends in student aid 2012
The student debt crisis
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
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
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Adult college completion toolkit
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness