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Author(s):Erisman, W., and Gao, L
Title:Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
Source:http://www.ihep.org/Pubs/PDF/AccountabilityRepo...
Date:2006
Organization:Institute for Higher Education Policy
Short Description:This working paper evaluates the accountability systems in several key states in order to determine whether—and how—these state systems consider the unique situation of community colleges.
Annotation:This working paper evaluates the accountability systems in several key states in order to determine whether—and how—these state systems consider the unique situation of community colleges. The goal of the paper is to better understand the interconnections between the wholesale issues about accountability systems and the relatively more retail questions about whether these issues actually resonate in a meaningful way in the sector that educates the largest and most diverse number of students in American higher education.
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Community Colleges
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Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Latino college completion: Texas
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
The undereducated American
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
Cohort default rates in context
Advocacy in action toolkit
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Hearing on non-traditional students
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
Leveraging data for college completion
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
Trends in student aid 2011
Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Three policies to reduce time to degree
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Improving community college success
The state fiscal stabilization fund and higher education spending
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Buying college: What consumers need to know
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
Transfer and articulation policies
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Community College 2.0
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Financial education in TRIO programs
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
A paradox of education progress
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
State funding for higher education in FY 2009 and FY 2010
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
The College Completion Agenda
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09
Why is college so expensive?
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
The public realities of private student loans
Deciding on postsecondary education
National Postsecondary Education Cooperative
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
State education activities to support mission growth
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition
The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality
Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
Funding and access issues in public higher education: A community college perspective
The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges
Rising by Degrees
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
A framework for a multi-state human capital development data system
Considerations for state colleges and universities in a post-recession America
Meeting the invention challenge
College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
How much are college students borrowing?
Making high school students into "college material"
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
College readiness and high school-to-college success
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Accounting for state student aid: How state policy and student aid connect
State higher education finance: FY 2004
NCHEMS information center
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
State data systems and privacy concerns: Strategies for balancing public interests
NDSFA: The financial aid partnership
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources
Independent undergraduates: 1999-2000
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Bridging troubled waters: Competition, cooperation, and the public good in independent and higher education
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
Nontraditional undergraduates
Closing the expectations gap 2007: An annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and work
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Setting a public agenda for higher education in the states: Lessons learned from the national collaborative for higher education policy
A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Costs, prices, and affordability
Just for the kids
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Federal Education Budget Project
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Diverse issues in higher education
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
State future workforce gap summaries
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)
New England Journal of Higher Education
Adult learners: A data and policy perspective
Remedial and developmental education at Ivy Tech
Driving forces on the road to re-entry
Strategic directions in Indiana education
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access
Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
The real technology challenge
California Youth Connection
Who graduates in California?
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Workers need training, not tough talk
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Retooling career and technical education
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
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
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Three-year graduation rates for associate students
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
Education and the economy: An indicators report
American Indian higher education consortium
Access and participation profiles
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Participation trends and patterns in adult education: 1991 to 1999
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Federal policy and Latinos in higher education
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
Engaging students, challenging the odds
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Transfer college quality and student performance
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Feasibility of a student unit record system within the integrated postsecondary education data system
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline
Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America
Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi
Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Cal-SOAP
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)
Taxing matters
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success
Measuring up 2006
High school coursework: Policy trends and implications for higher education
Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary
The art of student retention
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
California trends in student aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04
Eliminating complexity and inconsistency in federal financial aid programs for higher education students: Towards a more strategic approach
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
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
What state policymakers should know about federal higher education policy
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Value added: The costs and benefits of college preparatory programs in the united states
Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations
The adult learning gap: Why states need to change their policies toward adult learners
Measuring up 2004
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
College affordability in jeopardy: The rising price of higher education
Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
The investment payoff: A 50 state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education.
Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers
Educational needs index
State higher education finance: FY 2003
Advisory committee on student financial assistance
State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions
Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth
Rankings of working-age adult participation rates for 50 states
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
Aligning state approval and regional accreditation for online postsecondary institutions: A national strategy
Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Transitions -- First-generation students: A promising concept?
Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
The President's Forum
Ucan: University and college accountability network (search tool to find private colleges and universities by state)
IPEDS Data Center
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Growing What Works Database
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials
Time to Completion Web Site
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
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
College choices for adults: Transparency by design
National education standards: Getting beneath the surface
Field guide for improving student success
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Flexible learning options for adult students
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
"Careers for the future" education program
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
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
College tools for schools
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
State higher education finance: Early release FY 2008
The future of middle-skill jobs
One in 31: The long reach of American corrections
Youth transitioning from foster care: Background, federal programs and issues for Congress
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Evolving No Child Left Behind
Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it
Education watch 2009
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Education pays 2010
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
They rallying call: Bring game changing results to developmental education: The colloquium on state policy support for developmental education innovation
Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
National Center for Academic Transformation
Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together
Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade
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
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
College InSight
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
What does research say about 21st century skills?
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
The breaking through practice guide
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model
College Savings Foundation
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
Uncertain recovery: FIndings from the 2010 survey of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
CollegeMeasures.org
Web tables - profile of undergraduate students: trends from selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Developmental education in community colleges
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
The degree qualifications profile
Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training
Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions
Presidential perspectives: The 2011 Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university presidents
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Projections of education statistics to 2019
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11
Tuition fees and student financial assistance: 2010 Global year in review
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Steps taken on the path forward
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
Research support for school counseling
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Shifting trends in special education
The condition of education 2011
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide
Operation College Promise
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
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Trends in college pricing 2011
What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Data for action 2011
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
The false promise of class-size reduction
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
The College Match Program
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Project WIn-Win
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Workforce development economics 101: State by state snapshots
Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
The digital revolution and higher education: College presidents, public differ on value of online education
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
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Cracking the credit hour
Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Healthcare
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
What is "career ready"?
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress
On her majesty's school inspection service
Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Smart class-size policies for lean times
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
College Board swing state education survey
Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
State aid to nonpublic schools
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Five things education supporters should know about pension reform
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Science and engineering indicators 2012
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation
The road to high-quality early education
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
A systemic approach to implementing response to intervention in three Colorado high schools
Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale
Adult college completion toolkit
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
Trends in student aid 2012
National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce

 

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