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Author(s):Tornatzky, L., Macias, E., Jenkins, D., and Solias, C
Title:Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
Source:http://www.trpi.org/PDFs/nsf.pdf
Date:2006
Organization:Tomas Rivera Policy Institute
Short Description:This document is intended to be both a final summary report of research conducted under a National Science Foundation Grant, as well as an essay on the general state of research and policy analysis pertaining to Latino access to and achievement in technical career paths.
Annotation:This document is intended to be both a final summary report of research conducted under a National Science Foundation Grant, as well as an essay on the general state of research and policy analysis pertaining to Latino access to and achievement in technical career paths. An overview of the methods and procedures of the NSF study is providing, citing key findings, and discussing strengths and shortcomings of the project. The summative essay will deal more broadly with how to get a research and policy “handle” on the continuing problem of Latino involvement in the knowledge economy.
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Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Latino college completion: Texas
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Transforming education in America
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
The Future Ready Project
Women Employed
State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Healthcare
Repository of resources for undocumented students
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Community college student survey
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Increasing the number of STEM graduates: Insights from the US STEM education and modeling project
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
YourWordsToday.org
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Moving English language learners to college- and career-readiness
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Complete College America
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Economic state of young America
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
SREB Factbook on higher education
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)
Campaign for High School Equity
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Effective literacy and English language instruction for English learners in the elementary grades
The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
What every college access practitioner should know: About the needs of latino students and their families
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
What every college access practitioner should know about: The early college high school initiative – Indiana plans for the early college high school for science and technologies
Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Corporate Scholarship Program
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Language rights: An integration agenda for immigrant communities
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Dream it! Do it!
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
Colorado Reports
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Maintaining a strong engineering workforce
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Educational attainment in the United States: 2005
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects
They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education
Annotated bibliography of minority achievement
Lumina Foundation for Education
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
College success programs
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success
Latino youth and the pathway to college
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Miles to go: Louisiana
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Bridging the gap between high school and college
How diversity affects teaching and learning
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Educational opportunity for all?
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
National defense education and innovation initiative: Meeting America's economic and security challenges in the twenty-first century
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay