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College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report

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Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses

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Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary

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Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success

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Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation

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Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college

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Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10

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Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results

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Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs

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Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

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Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders

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Tips for parents with high school teens: Countdown to college

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The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care

Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce

Back to College (Back2College)

Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8

Law, Education, Social Services Scholarships

United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Scholarships

Technical Minority Scholarship Program

Development Fund for Black Students in Science and Technology Scholarships

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment

Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education

Indiana Next: A guide to life after high school

Science bound program (for Indianapolis public school students)

Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't

Federal Aid First (Spanish Version)

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students

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How America saves for college 2009: Sallie Mae's national study of students and parents

From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs

Breakthrough Collaborative

How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students

Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers

State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college

Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education

Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture

And after high school? A pan-Canadian study of grade 12 students in French-language schools in minority settings: Educational aspirations and plans to pursue a career in their home regions -- Executive Summary

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

My future, my way: How to go, how to pay

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS

Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide

Financial education in TRIO programs

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

Women and college savings: A survey on parental attitudes and practices

The door to opportunity is always labeled push (Spanish language version)

Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)

Indiana's Cash for College

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

A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations

Indiana's guide to paying for college: Step-by-step tips to help high school seniors apply for financial aid

How Your Financial Aid Administrator Can Help You (Spanish language version)

Federal Student Aid at a Glance (Spanish language version)

Academic Competitiveness Grant and National SMART Grant (Spanish language version)

Federal Student Aid: Loan Programs Factsheet (Spanish language version)

Cal-SOAP

College preparation information from Peterson's Education Center

The Princeton Review

Bridges to Success

College Compass

College planning center

Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity

Minority teacher/special education services scholarship

Turning college and career planning into family communication

Scholarship Help

State of college admission 2007

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students

Financial aid for Native American students

National College Access Program Directory

State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians

Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities

2006-2007 NASFAA financial aid night and counselor's materials

USA Funds

Public attitudes on higher education

Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education

Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools

Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid

How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

Education Planner

Financial aid and scholarships for undocumented students

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

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

Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation graduate scholarship program

Pathways to excellence

Creating options 2007: Financial aid for individuals with disabilities

Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options

Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities

Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools

Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented

Gates Millenium Scholars Program

Top 10 tips for college admissions and financial aid

Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices

Adventures in Education - High School (English and Spanish Versions)

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California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth

Federal requirements for homeschoolers seeking college admission and financial aid

Failing grades? American families and their college savings efforts

Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program

Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

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

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

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Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for careers in athletics

Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments

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School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

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Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children

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National Coalition for College Completion

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GetMeToCollege.org: For undocumented students

Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas

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HBCU distance learning 2010

A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools

A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all

Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned

Education pays 2010

A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners

Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08

Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup

The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

The four keys: Unlocking high school success and the path to college

Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream

Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Latinos and financial aid: Applying and receiving 2007-2008

Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF) Scholarship Resources

Postsecondary success

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

Getting ready for high school (tips for parents from the American School Counselor Association)

Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)

College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends

The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

Paying and saving for college

College Resources for Parents

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment

Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism

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

Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges

Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students

Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success

Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges

Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits

Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states

The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)

Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED

Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality

Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation

Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08

Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation

High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators

Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army

Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators

Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior

Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis

Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree

DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed

An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations

Piling it on: The growth of proprietary school loans and the consequences for students

Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges

Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education

Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success

Everybody ready for college

Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools

Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators

The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making

Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education

The economic case for higher education

How America pays for college 2012

Financial Aid Shopping Sheet

How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?

Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas

The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes

The missing "one-offs": The hidden supply of high achieving, low-income students

College Abacus

Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?

Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices

Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions

College hopes and worries survey

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education

How America pays for college 2011

Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents

Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?

The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

The economic value of opportunity youth

Cohort default rates in context

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

Ramp-up to Readiness

The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education

Net tuition and net price trends in the United States: 2000-2009

Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34

Don't get scammed on your way to college!

Returning to our roots: Student access

Frequently asked questions

Financial aid FAQ (frequently asked questions)

Financial aid glossary: Some terms you may enounter on the road

Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample

Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

Latinos in graduate education

Latinos in undergraduate education

Latinos in secondary education

What every student should know about federal aid

Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

Ensuring academic success for English learners

Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

National Urban League Scholarships

The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap

Parents are too optimistic about scholarships

Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree

Tips for finding a college match: Characteristics your child should consider

Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year

How to Choose a College: A Guide for the Student with a Disability

Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed

Guide for parents in the college admission process

Partnership for Learning

Campus visit checklist: How to make the most of the trip

Paying for College Workshop Toolkit

National Council of La Raza

School Redesign Network

Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence

Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

A postsecondary resource guide for students with psychiatric disabilities

Knowhow2go.org

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college

Latino youth and the pathway to college

College readiness begins in middle school

Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

Discounting toward disaster: Tuition discounting, college finances, and enrollments of low-income undergraduates

Do grants matter?

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion

Encouraging news for college bound foster youth

Foster care independence act of 1999 and John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program

When saving means losing: Weighing the benefits of college-savings plans

A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access

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

Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college

The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad

Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges

Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program

Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty

A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices

Primary progress, secondary challenge

U.S. Department of Education: The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit

Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources

A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

College is possible

Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education

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

Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education

The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare

Office of Indian education programs

Bridging the gap between high school and college

How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students

Need versus merit: Focusing student financial aid for diversity

El Puente Project

InternationalScholarships.com

The impact of advice on price: Evidence from research

Supporting parent, family, and community involvement in your school

College guidance

Section 529 state college savings programs

FinAid! financial aid website

College Planning Network

SMASH Academy

U Links

Family affiliation scholarships

FINAID - Family Contribution Estimator

Federal financial aid

Federal Student Aid: Grant Programs Factsheet

Family factors and student outcomes

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act

Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college

Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt

Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit

The College Place

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

Why stop after high school?: A descriptive analysis of the most important reasons that high school graduates do not continue to PSE

Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education

The 2003 Ontario College Applicant Survey

Canadian college student finances: Second edition

Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys

Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing

Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools

Affordability of UNCF-member institutions

Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success

College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education

Education watch 2009

Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success

The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment

Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Opportunity.gov

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009

Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students

A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all

National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

Do Perceptions Matter Regarding the Costs and Benefits of a Post-Secondary Education?

Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students

How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae

Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities

Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

Family firsts: Reach for your dreams

Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates

Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students

Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid

NASFAA's cash for college

Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers

Community colleges under stress

Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college

College tools for schools

Sizing up state standards: 2008

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

Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Students earning zero credits

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Radio and Technology News Directors Association (RTNDA) Scholarships

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Scholarship Program

Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program

Korean American Scholarship Foundation

Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program

Morris K. Udall Scholarship

Sticker shock quiz: How much does college really cost?

Financial aid myths

Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy

Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens

How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents

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

College admission for homeschoolers

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students

Starfish Initiative

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

Get-recruited.com

Mentors en Español

Academic competitiveness grants

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

GoCollege

The Sallie Mae Fund

Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

Scholarships for Minority Accounting Students

National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years

ALPFA Scholarship Programs

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11

Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students

Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement

Low-income students and college success: More than money

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

White students are racially isolated

Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability

Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials: Understanding the new students

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

AMS Scholarships and Fellowships

Project Complete

GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage

Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students

American Indian Scholarships

HomeworkSpot

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

McNair scholar handbook

2007 CHCI Pre-college planning checklist for parents & middle school students

The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences

2007 College preparatory kit for high school students

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community

A parent handbook for career development

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges

Best Business Schools

College bound? Don't get hooked by misleading financial aid offers

Center for native education

Access to success initiative

Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game

Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans

Creating a college-going culture guide

Tips for parents with middle school teens: Countdown to college

Examining American Indian perspectives in the Central Region on parent's involvement in education

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

Remission of fees (free tuition) for the child(ren) of a disabled veteran

English-Spanish glossary of student financial aid and postsecondary education

The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond

Language rights: An integration agenda for immigrant communities

An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test

Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships

Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program

Institute of Real Estate Management Foundation Minority Outreach Scholarship

Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools

2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet (Spanish Version)

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge

USA Funds: Indiana state resources

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

Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school

Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'

Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support

Facts for education advocates

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

Black Alliance for Educational Options

Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions

Educational Policy Improvement Center

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions

Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education

Canadian college student finances: Third edition (2005)

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

Closing the access gap: Does information matter?

Funding university education in Ontario: Ontario University applicant survey report

Student aid and university persistence - Does debt matter?

Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?

BC AVID: Early implementation report

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Creating a college-going culture for English-language learners

SREB Factbook on higher education

Summer Search

US Department of Veterans Affairs: Yellow Ribbon Program

Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century

Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century

The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools

The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning

Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done

Quick facts about financial aid and community colleges, 2007-08

Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric

Campaign for High School Equity

High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools

National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals

Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?

Official cohort default rates for schools

Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity

A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness

The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business

Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing

Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum

The role of guidance in post-secondary planning

Assessing Canada’s student aid need assessment policies

Deciding about post-secondary education: Hearing the voices of non-attendees

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

Does money matter? II

Student Financial Survey: Baseline Results (2001)

Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

eCampusTours.com: Paying for College

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

Student loan forgiveness programs: An evolving workforce development tool

Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion

Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)

Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Children of Immigrants Data Tool

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide

Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

College Savings Foundation

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses

Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

General financial aid resources

Sallie Mae financial aid calculators

College Board Calculators

Early college cost estimator

State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana

Indiana family college savings program

Minority student achievement network

ScholarShop

Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems

Profiles of Indiana and US colleges and universities

College Prep 101

Involving Mom and Dad

Involving parents

The Education Network college planning site

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

The Citigroup college planning guide: Every New York City student can go to college

Publications by Sean-Michael Green

Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges

Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move

Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Native American culture: Education

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

Kiplinger's 100 best values in public colleges

English language learners: Boosting academic achievement

CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success

NCHEMS information center

Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities

TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)

Latino achievement in America

Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope

From risk to opportunity: Fulfilling the educational needs of Hispanic Americans in the twenty-first century

Improving your child's education: A guide for Latino parents

A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children

Financial aid resources

Categorical financial aid resources

School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis

The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First

Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth

FastWeb

More on affordability: Response to Tom Mortenson

Academic pathways to access and student success

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults

Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector

Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend

State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer

Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century

The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality

Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships

State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality

Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.

The early college high school: The initiative at a glance

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students

Knocking at the college door: California state report

States' progress toward high school restructuring

Students with disabilities and access to community college: Continuing issues and new directions

YMCA

Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies

Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future

Improving math performance

The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

State of college readiness for Latino students

Wrestling rising costs with innovation

SoMD CAN Curriculum Guides

My College Options

National Parent School Partnership Program

Think College

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Helping Teens Succeed

Financialaidtips.org

College Access: Indiana

College Planning Resources

Opening Doors project publications

Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers

The key to success in community college

Types of colleges: What suits your child best

Guia de programas federales de ayuda estudiantil 2007-2008 (The guide to federal student aid)

College prep glossary: College admissions from A to Z

Discover 10 ways to jump-start college planning: Help your child take the right steps, now

Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families

Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West

Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA

How well do you know your child?

Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991

Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace

Motivating the unmotivated student

It's not what you tell them, it's what they hear: College access marketing in your community

Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors

Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children

Homeschooled adults: Are they ready for college

A study of admissions officers' perceptions of and attitudes toward homeschooled students

Talent Development High Schools

Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school

Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools

Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

Emergency financial aid for community college students: Implementation and early lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund programs.

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students

Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

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High school planner: Your guide to planning for college

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Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP

25 incredible sites to learn how to transfer college credits

For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education

Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs

Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?

Trends in student aid 2011

Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning

From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model

Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers

The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood

Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts

12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012

One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools

Paying for college: Cost comparison worksheet

The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success

BigFuture: By the College Board

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions

Information constraints and financial aid policy

Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead

MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries

Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond

The nation's report card: Science 2011

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

Trends in college spending, 1999-2009

2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class

Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years

"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence

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

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students

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

The student debt crisis

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

Trends in student aid 2012

The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt

View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning

Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy

Grandparents investing in grandchildren: The Metlife study on how grandparents share their time, values, and money

Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education

Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010

2012 Household financial planning survey

Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?

GraduateTutor.com: Your scholarship directory

Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children

Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Latino college completion: Florida

Trends in student aid 2010

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process

Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college

Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students

Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree

Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society

Latino college completion: California

Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school

College Savings Foundation: 2011 Survey of parents

The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders

Critical choices: How colleges can help students and families make better decisions about private loans

The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Gender inequalities in education

Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs

Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable

Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)

Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits

Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent

The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness

Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?

Proposed legislative changes to the post-9/11 GI Bill: Potential implications for veterans and colleges

College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy

Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?

The condition of education in brief: 2005

Immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's education at home and at school in 1999-2000

Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

How America saves for college: 2010

The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students

Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04

Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis

Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09

The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers

Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers

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Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts

Tuition-setting authority and deregulation at state colleges and universities

High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)

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The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

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America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand

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Citizenship now! Information for undocumented students

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

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6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports

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International Education Financial Aid: International Financial Aid and College Scholarship Search

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Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up

Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn

Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

The breaking through practice guide

State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation

Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs

Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide

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Putting students ahead of private banks: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibily Act (SAFRA) myths-facts

Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

College going culture baseline expectations

College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies

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The condition of college and career readiness 2010

Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

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Trends in college spending: 1998-2008: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?

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California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference

Is school funding fair? A national report card

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

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Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit

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Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics

Developmental education in community colleges

A first look at the common core and college and career readiness

Why these students? Reasons to help undocumented students

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps

Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future

College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success

The bottom line: Ensuring that students and parents understand the net price of college

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Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students

Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress

The false promise of class-size reduction

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)

Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Twenty-first Century Scholars Indiana college assistance and incentives resource book

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The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education

Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations

P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills

Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness

Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

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Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school

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Why 529 college savings plans favor the fortunate

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Who subsidizes whom? An analysis of educational costs and revenues

America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study

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Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement

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Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships

Still denied: How community colleges shortchange students by not offering federal loans

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

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Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11

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Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts

Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges

Slip sliding away: An anxious public talks about today's economy and the American Dream

Cohort default rate resources

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011

When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards

A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment

The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy

Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?

Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college

Employees in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011 and student financial aid, academic year 2010-11 - first look

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Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices

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

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary

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

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

2012 National survey of school counselors

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Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency

Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors

Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill

The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

42nd Annual survey report on state sponsored student financial aid

What is "career ready"?

Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures

Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States

Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition

Financial awareness counseling

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges

8th Annual AP report to the nation

Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out

Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts

Grading student loans

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012

2011 Year in review: Global changes in tuition fee policies and student assistance

High debt, low information: A survey of student loan borrowers

Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

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

Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success

A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system

Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools

Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive

Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning

Western Policy Exchanges

Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer

What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education

Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools

Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?

A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)

Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08

Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards

American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour

Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures

Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications

Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students

Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009

Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era

Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

EPAS®: A system that works

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups

Black, White and Brown: Latino school desegragation efforts in the pre- and post- Brown vs. the Board of Education era

Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge

Guia para estudiantes (Guide for students)

Twenty things you need to know about financing college

Student African American Brotherhood

IUPUI SAAB summer bridge program

Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance

Great schools: Countdown to college

Financial aid letter.com

Bridge program planning guide

Literacy behind bars: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy prison survey

Nontraditional undergraduates

Timing and duration of student participation in special education in the primary grades

College guide for students with disabilities

How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit

Latinos in elementary education

What works for Latino students

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

The career pathways how-to guide

Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy

Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study

Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools

Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

A summary of research and publications on early childhood for American Indian and Alaska Native children

American Indian and Alaska Native children: Findings from the base year of the early childhood longitudinal study, birth cohort

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06

Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework

The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success

Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers

How do financial aid policies affect colleges? The institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

Alliance Bernstein College Savings Crunch

Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities

College on credit: How borrowers perceive their education debt

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today

Choosing smart electives: Cultivating interests, strengths, and special talents

Recommended classes: A great schedule leads to college success

Ten ways to help your child become self-reliant

How not to be a helicopter parent

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education

Funding higher education for adult students

Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana

The college search: How you can help your child

Back to school: Federal student aid policy and adult college enrollment

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Translations for success

Creating Partnerships, Bridging worlds: Family and Community Engagement

The Student Guide

Resources for intermediaries: Developing a budget for early college

Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices

SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

The national articulation and transfer network

Purdue opportunity awards program

Student poll: High school students want parents to be more involved in college planning

The Breakthrough High School project

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Student loans and public accountability

LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11

Creating a culture of literacy: A guide for middle and high school principals

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

National and state data

A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs

Inside the admissions process: What happens to your child's applications?

College application calendar: Save the date for college

Funding your graduate education: Sources of information

Federal student aid: Graduate and professional studies

Applications: A parent's role

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements

Indiana’s postsecondary indicators: 2004 performance and descriptive indicators

Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students

Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice

Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity

Just and efficient college finance

The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt

Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students

Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development

What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction

Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college

ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning

No merit in these scholarships

Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges

Preparing students for success in college

Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

Do and should financial aid packages affect students' college choices?

How families of low- and middle-income undergraduates pay for college: Full-time dependent students in 1999-2000

State higher education finance: FY 2003

Student aid and tax benefits: Better research and guidance will facilitate comparison of effectiveness and student use

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

Paying for college: Changes between 1990 and 2000 for full-time dependent undergraduates

Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused

Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools

Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools

Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status

Financial access: What it is, what it isn't, and how to educate people about it

Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004

They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education

Our impoverished view of education reform

Independent undergraduates: 1999-2000

State higher education finance: FY 2004

The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve

Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives

Financial aid estimators and calculators

Searchable scholarship database

Students with disabilities: Preparing for postsecondary education: Know your rights and responsibilities

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs

African American achievement in America

What students pay for college: Changes in net price of college attendance between 1992-93 and 1999-2000

School relationships foster success for African American students

Foster youth: Tips for completing the FAFSA (2008-09)

National college access network

Indiana dollars for scholars

The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth

Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

Miles to go: Louisiana

The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance

Dual credit and exam-based courses in US public high schools:2002-03

Reclaiming the American dream

American Indian science and engineering society

National Indian Education Association

Center for Student Opportunity

Indian students and college preparation

Tribal colleges, native studies programs, and Indian education

Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going

Financial aid for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students

CPS: A leader in AP growth

NDSFA: Fundamental assumptions and aims underlying the principles of federal financial aid to students

NDSFA: State financial aid and college access

NDSFA: The financial aid partnership

Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school

Boys and girls harbor

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04

National association of state approving agencies

GI bill education benefits

Debunking the myth

Education: Solving the GI bill mystery

Cashing in on the GI bill

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

An assessment of recent proposals to improve the Montgomery GI bill

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

Bridge Partnership

E-Guidance counselor college planning site

Saving for College Website

The scholarship page

College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

Measuring up 2006

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Family Education Network: Preparing for College

E-Campus tours college planning

Act, Inc: College planning resources in Spanish

Sallie Mae: College answer

Quintessential Careers college planning resources

High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education

College Board online college planning resources

Talbot's student planning book

American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century

Parental involvement: Why it matters, how to get it

The state of college affordability in Indiana

Center for student opportunity: College center

College Goal Sunday

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Students.gov

How to help your child prepare for education beyond high school

ACT financial aid need estimator

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Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates

Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps

Federal student aid for incarcerated individuals (Spanish language version)

Academic Competitiveness Grant and National SMART Grant

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Federal Student Aid: Loan Programs Factsheet

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This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships

Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students

Paying for college: Students from middle-income backgrounds

Toward reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from New York City's conditional cash transfer program

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools

Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.

High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

No Excuses University Network

Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

Making ends meet: The 2001–2002 student financial survey

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada

On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State

Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?

The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education

Federal Student Aid at a Glance

Insuring college failure risk

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary

A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity

Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

Princeton Review 2009 "College hopes and worries" survey findings

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis

Helping foster youth and wards of the court complete the FAFSA

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners

The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability

Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help

Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs

Financial aid in theory and practice

Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?

The public realities of private student loans

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

FinAid: Income-based repayment

Meeting the invention challenge

A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment

From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

SchoolGuides.org: Transition guides for students and their families

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief

The Everyone Graduates Center

Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture

Trends in college pricing 2009

Transitions -- First-generation students: A promising concept?

Ten Things you need to know about financial support for post-secondary students in Canada

The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence

“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research

A new kind of student aid: Creating, implementing and assessing the Millennium Access Bursaries

The Canadian student financial aid system: The case for modernization

The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education

Survey Of Secondary School Students

Canada's Tuition and Education Tax Credits

Changing schools: A look at student mobility trends in Chicago public schools since 1995

The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges

Getting with the program: Community college students need access to federal loans

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle

How much are college students borrowing?

Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)

Moving English language learners to college- and career-readiness

More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges

Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do

Trends in student aid 2008

YouthBuild USA

The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution

The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors

2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet

Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation

OEDb Online Education Database

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

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

Indiana Secondary Market for Education Loans (ISM Loans)

Institutions with approved programs for veterans to receive educational benefits

A brief history of veterans' education benefits and their value

Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education

Truman D. Picard Scholarship

National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Corporate Scholarship Program

The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Dates, deadlines, and details: A monthly activity calendar

Science and mathematics education indicators

SEG Scholarship Program

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood

Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs

One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students

Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools

Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school

Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

College Board scholarship search

The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

My Child's Future (MyChildsFuture.org)

Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum

Career preparation curriculum

College View

Adventures in education: For college students

State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges

Pacific Northwest scholarship guide - online

Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)

A Pocket Guide to Choosing the Right College: Are you asking the right questions?

Indiana college access funding organizations

What every college access practitioner should know: About the needs of latino students and their families

Going2College.org

Scholarships for American Indians

Scholarship Gateway

Financial Literacy for You (FLY)

Indian Health Service Scholarship

The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

Economic mobility of black and white families

From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college

Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)

Explaining financial aid

Education Finance Council