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Author(s):	Prince, D., and Jenkins, D
Title:	Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Source:	http://www.cte.mnscu.edu/researchcorner/Future%...
Date:	2005
Organization:	Community College Research Center
Short Description:	This Brief summarizes findings from a study that seeks to fill information gaps about older community college students.
Annotation:	This Brief summarizes findings from a study that seeks to fill information gaps about older community college students. Researchers used student record information from the Washington State Community and Technical College System to examine the educational experience and attainment as well as the employment and earnings of a sample of adult students, five years after first enrolling. The students in the sample were age 25 or older with, at most, a high school education.
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A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Center for Law and Social Policy

Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule

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

Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Economic state of young America

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

Educational needs index

Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships

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

Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college

Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

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

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Engaging students, challenging the odds

The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay

Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

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

Indiana's occupational employment outlook to 2012

College of Adult and Professional Studies

Setting the stage: Adults in Higher Education

Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results

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

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners

Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report

Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative

From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys

Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states

Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program

Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule

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

Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy

Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy

The College Match Program

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings

The role of mentoring in college access and success

The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Understanding the working college student

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

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

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges

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

Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future

Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series

Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations

2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

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

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

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

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

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

The work-based learning self assessment tool

Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college

A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

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

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

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

The productivity argument for investing in young children

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

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

Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

The Condition of Education 2010

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

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

Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership

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

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)

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

Global Skills for Global Completion

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)

Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

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

High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

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

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes

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

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

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

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010

Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis

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

Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College

A paradox of education progress

FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success

Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

College for all?

Maximizing the potential of older adults: Benefits to state economies and individual well-being

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

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

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

Deciding on postsecondary education

Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges

Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers

Rising by Degrees

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Time to Completion Web Site

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

Growing What Works Database

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

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

A matter of degrees: Tomorrow's fastest growing jobs, and why community college graduates will get them

Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Educational Policy Improvement Center

Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Are student employment and academic success linked?

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

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention

Developmental education in community colleges

Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

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

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

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities

Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

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

Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males

We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?

From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs

Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries

ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways

How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it

One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges

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

On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)

One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success

Ten facts about the recovery

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 college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)

Using linked data to drive education and training improvement

Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions

Latino college completion: Texas

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

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

Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

Buying college: What consumers need to know

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

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

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges

Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students

What's it worth: The economic value of college majors

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report

Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy

Dream it! Do it!

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report

Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

What's wrong with guys?

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities

Leading by example

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

What works for Latino students

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

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

Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

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

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future

Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Gender gap grows

First generation college students: A literature review

College students working: The choice nexus

Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults

From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth

Opening doors: Students’ perspectives on juggling work, family, and college

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future

Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study

Lifelong learning accounts: Creating a partnership in lifelong learning

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners

Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college

What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)

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

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

The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design

Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce

Strengthening state policies to increase the education and skills of low-wage workers

Condition of education 2008

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

Voice of adult learners united to educate (VALUE)

Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide

The future workforce of Indiana

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

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

Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)

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

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

Federal access policies and higher education for working adults

State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

Access to success initiative

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices

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

Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA

A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills

What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Accelerated developmental education project

Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

Adult learners: A data and policy perspective

Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes

How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?

Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors

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

Operation College Promise

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

STEM: State reports and state level analysis

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Project WIn-Win

High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

State policy profiles for completion by design

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

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

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

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

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

Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

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

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

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well

For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men

Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis

Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core

2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness

Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions

Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program

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

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

Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries

Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter

How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession

Regardless of the cost, college still matters

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

A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth

The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students

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

Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college

Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas

Cracking the credit hour

Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

The American middle class, income inequality, and the strength of our economy: New evidence in economics

Labor market returns to sub-baccalaureate credentials: How much does a community college degree or certificate pay?

Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

American Association of Community Colleges 2011 Advocacy Toolkit Factsheet

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color

High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?

Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs

America's youth: Transitions to adulthood

Western Policy Exchanges

Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students

The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states

What we know about dual enrollment

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

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

The Future Ready Project

An economy that works: Job creation and America's future

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

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

Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students

Leveraging data for college completion

The global gender gap index: 2011

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0

The landscape of noncredit workforce education: State policies and community college practices

Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

McNair scholar handbook

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

New England Journal of Higher Education

Anderson University: ADVANCE

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

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

Who graduates in California?

Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying employment readiness skills and the skills for on-the-job success

Adult competencies for life-long career development

The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success

Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

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

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

Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG.org)

Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

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

Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance

Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Schools, skills, and synapses

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

Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

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

I-STEM Resource Network

Indiana R&D 2008: Meeting the global challenge for innovation

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond

Wising up: How government can partner with business to increase skills and advance low-wage workers

What do we know about the economic benefits of the GED? A synthesis of evidence from recent research

The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment

Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005

College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds

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

The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention

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

The promise and practice of prison programming

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

As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality

Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools

A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices

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

The disposable worker: Living in a job-loss economy

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states

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

Center for Student Opportunity

Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society

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

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

National HIRE network: Resources and assistance: Indiana

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

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

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

Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work

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

The educational, social, and economic benefits of making informed and considered career decisions

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings

Work first, study second: Adult undergraduates who combine employment and postsecondary enrollment

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students

1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients and their opinions about education in 2003

A summary of career beginnings impact evaluation: Findings from a program for disadvantaged high school students

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

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

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Just for the kids

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

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

Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

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

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

Collegiate learning assessement project

The language of opportunity: Expanding employment prospects for adults with limited English skills

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

Women on the rise

A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

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

Nontraditional undergraduates

Why community colleges?

Indiana State Profile

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

Digest of Education Statistics

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

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

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students

Latino college completion: Florida

Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways

Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future

A sound investment: The community college dividend

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

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

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?

Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

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

Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

Gender inequalities in education

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

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

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs

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

Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020

Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project

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

Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education

The degree qualifications profile

Breaking new ground: Building a national workforce skills credentialing system

National Youth Employment Coalition

A detection model of college withdrawal

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

Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004

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

Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?

Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years

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

Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads

Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership

Closing the gap between high school and college

Ensuring success for returning veterans

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Field guide for improving student success

Employer guide to adult education for work: Transforming adult eduction to build a skilled workforce

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success

Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement

Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America

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

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

Young workers: A lost decade

Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators

Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

How much are college students borrowing?

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison

Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)

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

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

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

College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

What does research say about 21st century skills?

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

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

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

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

Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Sample state legislation to extend foster care, adoption, and guardianship protections, services, and payments to young adults age 18 and over

Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions

Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group

A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

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

Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada

Insuring college failure risk

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success

Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

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

Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement

High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

Higher education budgets and the global recession

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

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

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

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

Paving the way through paid internships: A proposal to expand educational and economic opportunities for low-income college students

Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials

Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success

College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success

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

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

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

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

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

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

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis

Financial education in TRIO programs

2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

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

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Tuning into local labor markets: Findings from the sectoral employment impact study

Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation

Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

The workplace realities

Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time

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

A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants

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

State education activities to support mission growth

Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

A developmental perspective on workplace readiness: Preparing high school students for success

SREB Factbook on higher education

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

Pathways to economic mobility: Key indicators

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

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

Making high school students into "college material"

IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle

Projections of education statistics to 2018

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

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

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

The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers

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

Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals

The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes

Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative

Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources

The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

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

ACE Online Information Center

Jobs to Careers Work-based Learning worksheet

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success

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

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada

Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)

The role of guidance in post-secondary planning

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

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

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

Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos

PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

Everybody ready for college

Community college student survey

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees

The College Completion Agenda

The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else

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

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways

Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood

Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals

Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student

Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility

Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam

FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle

How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture

Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards

Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04

Most Americans see college as essential to getting a good job

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

Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning

Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways

Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation

Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years

Steps taken on the path forward

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

Adult College Completion Network

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

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

Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities

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

Latino college completion: State series

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Earnings by attainment

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

Career planning and employment strategies for postsecondary students with disabilities

Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs

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

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

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

College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families

Graduate Retention Program

The status of working families in Indiana: 2006 update

College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree

Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

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

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college

Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support

Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative

Accelerated learning for all

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

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

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans

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

Adult education participation in 2004-05

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences

College learning for the new global century

Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment

Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students

NCHEMS information center

Higher education's contribution to the knowledge economy

Pathways to college access and success

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students

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

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

Lumina Foundation for Education

Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline

Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different

Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi

What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)

Quintessential Careers college planning resources

The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

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

Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth

Improving education outcomes for foster youth

Disconnected youth: Educational pathways to reconnection

The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act

Adult learners and state policy

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

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

The adult learning gap: Why states need to change their policies toward adult learners

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

Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation

21st century skills for 21st century jobs

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it

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

A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success

Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students

The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model

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

Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today

Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly

Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

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

Correctional education facts

Miles to go: Louisiana

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

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice

Measuring up 2006

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

Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Back to College (Back2College)

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

Adult Basic Education to Community Colleges Transitions Symposium Proceedings Report

ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely

Institute for a Competitive Workforce

The Fortune Society: Prisoner Re-entry

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

Promoting student success: Indiana educational and career services

College access and success state data

Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools

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

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Indiana by the numbers

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

See Forever Foundation

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care

A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness

Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers

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

Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges

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

Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study

Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes

American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools

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

A call to action: Why America must innovate

Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas

Career pathways: A strategy for transforming America's workforce education systems to support economic growth

Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges

Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states

Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

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

College admission for homeschoolers

Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure

Indiana University: Adult Student Resources

Indiana University Kokomo: Project Complete

Goshen College: Degree-completion programs

University of Indianapolis: School for Adult Learning

Marian College: Marian's Adult Programs (MAP)

Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

The state of American manhood

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

College for working adults

Ivy Tech programs: Fast track to college and double up for college

Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students

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

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

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

Strategic directions in Indiana education

A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

More student success: A systemic solution

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

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers

Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

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

Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

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

From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools

The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream

Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes

Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools

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

Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes

Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement

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

Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs

Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)

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

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career

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

On the road to success

Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect

Improving the odds for failing schools

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

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

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

Latino college completion in 50 states

AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"

Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college

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

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies

Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

Solutions for America: Recommendations for the President and Congress from: Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

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

Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts

Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California

Does America promote mobility as well as other nations?

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations

From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes

Framework for 21st century learning

Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

Innovations in labor market information and their application

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

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

Common measures for college access and success

Trends in student aid 2012

Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale

College 101 courses for applied learning and student success

A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy

An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis

National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

National and regional accreditation information