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Author(s):Association of American Colleges and Universities, and Liberal Education and America's Promise
Title:Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
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Date:2005
Organization:Association of American Colleges and Universities
Short Description:This report on liberal education outcomes provides a wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of student achievement in college.
Annotation:This report on liberal education outcomes provides a wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of student achievement in college. The authors examine a set of outcomes highly prized by the academy and employers, which includes critical thinking, quantitative literacy, communication skills, ethical reasoning, and civic engagement.
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Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
McNair scholar handbook
College access and success state data
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Summer Search
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Recent STEM initiatives
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
Collegiate learning assessement project
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
What works for Latino students
Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Dream it! Do it!
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Learning in a new key
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Schools to watch
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes
Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers
Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
CollegeMeasures.org
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes (Pathways to College Network Issue Brief)
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
The breaking through practice guide
Community College 2.0
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
Field guide for improving student success
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Complete College America
Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Advocacy in action toolkit
From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model
Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities
Operation College Promise
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Gender inequalities in education
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
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)
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
The Future Ready Project
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
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
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
A detection model of college withdrawal
Everybody ready for college
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Hearing on non-traditional students
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
State policy profiles for completion by design
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Healthcare
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
Common measures for college access and success
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Cracking the credit hour
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
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
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
Adult college completion toolkit
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
The economic case for higher education
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
What is "career ready"?
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
Improving the odds for failing schools
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
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
Ensuring success for returning veterans
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
College completion toolkit
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Project WIn-Win
Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
Latino college completion: California
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand
The College Match Program
Scaling community college interventions
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
National Coalition for College Completion
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county
Three policies to reduce time to degree
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
Women Employed
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Catalyst for change: The CIC/CLA consortium
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
Are student employment and academic success linked?
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)
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Projections of education statistics to 2018
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Help wanted: Postsecondary education and training required
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
The Condition of Education 2010
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
National Center for Academic Transformation
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
The College Completion Agenda
Grantmakers for Education
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Measuring up 2006
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways
College success programs
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
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
Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Data sources for improving college access and success
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Postsecondary education opportunity
Miles to go: Louisiana
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
English language learners: Boosting academic achievement
Just for the kids
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
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
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
Student loans and public accountability
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Postsecondary Access and Success
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
Earnings by attainment
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Teaching and learning across the class divide
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Savvy assessment and evaluation skills
Standards for quality online teaching
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
Education watch 2009
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Education & the military spouse: The long road to success
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Measuring up 2008
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
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'
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Gateway to College
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Condition of education 2008
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
The male achievement gap in Indiana
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Windows on achievement and inequality
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
Accelerated developmental education project
Community college faculty degree attainment
Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Quality counts 2008
Projections of education statistics to 2016
National Council of La Raza
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
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Who graduates in California?
Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
Economic mobility of black and white families
Maintaining participation of Millennial Generation students in online learning environments
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
Economic mobility project
How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Value-added analysis and education policy
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
The family: America's smallest school
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
HomeworkSpot
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
More student success: A systemic solution
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Strategic directions in Indiana education
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Project Complete
Anderson University: ADVANCE
Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through
The state of American manhood
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Student persistence in college: More than counting caps and gowns
Diverse issues in higher education
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Economic state of young America
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
The fiscal impacts of college attainment
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Indiana by the numbers
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
The future of middle-skill jobs
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Flexible learning options for adult students
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning
College readiness for all toolbox
How much are college students borrowing?
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Online learning as a strategic asset: A resource for campus leaders
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
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Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities
Names, expectations and the Black-White test score gap
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
The context of "choice" in college pathways
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
Using posttesting to show the effectiveness of developmental/remedial college courses
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Digest of Education Statistics
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
Tour of the male student mind in American higher education
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
YMCA
Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices
The path to prosperity: A policy of investment
Update on advanced placement
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
What's Fair?
First ask, then listen: How to get your students to help you teach them better
The Breakthrough High School project
Higher education accountability for student learning
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
School Redesign Network
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice
Middle Start
Turning Points
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Homeschooled adults: Are they ready for college
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Adult education participation in 2004-05
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
The disposable worker: Living in a job-loss economy
A road map for learning: Improving educational outcomes in foster care: A strategic guide for success in school
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Top American research universities
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
Access and persistence: Findings from 10 years of longitudinal research on students
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
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
College affordability: Overlooked long-term trends and recent 50 state patterns
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Gender gap grows
What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
State higher education finance: FY 2004
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
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
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways
Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007
Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Education pays 2010
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
Outsourcing instruction: Issues for public colleges and universities
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018
College for all?
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
Growing What Works Database
Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
The value of value-added data
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
The effects of public support on college attainment
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Retaining teacher talent: Teaching for a living
College InSight
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
Empowering effective teachers: Strategies for implementing reforms
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Snapshot report: Mobility
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
Latino college completion: Texas
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
The false promise of class-size reduction
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Accomodating student veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder: Tips for campus faculty and staff
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
The case for change in college admissions
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Adult College Completion Network
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Latino college completion: Florida
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes
Latino college completion: State series
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
The condition of education 2011
Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Scaling up preliminary data analysis
The impact of teacher experience
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011
What works in student retention 2010
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs
A first look at the common core and college and career readiness
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
Projections of education statistics to 2019
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Science and engineering indicators 2012
Western Policy Exchanges
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
California District Report Cards
Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district
Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics
Does America promote mobility as well as other nations?
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men