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Author(s):Zinth, K
Title:A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
Source:http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/67/64/6764.pdf
Date:2006
Organization:Education Commission of the States
Short Description:The year 2005 saw a number of reports calling for actions to ensure the future economic vitality of the United States, frequently through the improvement of science and mathematics education. This brief provides a synthesis of these reports highlighting suggested strategies for improvement from each report.
Annotation:The year 2005 saw a number of reports calling for actions to ensure the future economic vitality of the United States, frequently through the improvement of science and mathematics education. Challenges cited inlduce: - Increased economic competition from other nations, particularly China and India -A dependence on foreign-born talent that may not be sustainable -A shortage of qualified mathematics/science teachers -And a shortage of U.S. students studying for mathematics/science degrees. This brief provides a synthesis of these reports highlighting suggested strategies for improvement from each report.
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The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Solutions for America: Recommendations for the President and Congress from: Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
STEM Education Coalition
Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
The future workforce of Indiana
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
International Benchmarking Toolkit
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Educational Policy Improvement Center
College readiness and high school-to-college success
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Young workers: A lost decade
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
BC AVID: Early implementation report
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
Closing the expectations gap 2010
A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
School Redesign Network
Diversity and the college curriculum: How colleges and universities are preparing students for a changing world
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay
Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school
For better science, just add color
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
The path to prosperity: A policy of investment
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
Rural America at a glance (2003)
Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges
The male achievement gap in Indiana
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi
The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and the Humanities: Resource for rural Indiana
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Science and engineering indicators 2006
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth
State higher education finance: FY 2004
Education pays 2004: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
An action agenda for improving America's high schools
Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds
The investment payoff: A 50 state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education.
America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Tough choices or tough times: The report of the new commission on the skills of the American workforce
Schools to watch
Improving prisoner re-entry through strategic policy innovations
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
American Indian science and engineering society
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
The career pathways how-to guide
The language of opportunity: Expanding employment prospects for adults with limited English skills
Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01
Building the foundation for bright futures: A governors guide to school readiness
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Joint platform for education reform
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics
The PISA 2003 assessment framework: Mathematics, reading, science and problem solving knowledge and skills
Getting students ready for college and careers
Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Evaluating the effectiveness of technology in our schools
The disposable worker: Living in a job-loss economy
Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Measuring up 2006
When prisoners return to the community: Political, social and economic consequences
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study
Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
Resources for businesses hiring formerly incarcerated persons
After prison: Roadblocks to reentry: A report on state legal barriers facing people with criminal records
The condition of education 2006
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers
Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success
School relationships foster success for African American students
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs
What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings
Is more better? The impact of postsecondary education on the social and economic well-being of American society
The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act
Investment payoff: The benefits of a higher education in the Midwestern states
Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era
Investing in America's future
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
The landscape of noncredit workforce education: State policies and community college practices
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
"Innovation shift" to the emerging economies: Cases from IT and heavy industries
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report
Windows on achievement and inequality
The minds of boys
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
What every college access practitioner should know about: Unintended consequences, criminal justice edition
Adult learners: A data and policy perspective
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Programme for international assessment (PISA): 2006 Results
Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
National Council of La Raza
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
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
Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds
Educational opportunity for all?
It's all about who you know...
Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
The competitiveness index: Where America stands
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
EPAS®: A system that works
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
Education and public safety
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Creating jobs and supporting homeless students
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
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: P-20 longitudinal data systems
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
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)
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
The spaces between the numbers: Getting international data on higher education straight
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Rising by Degrees
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning
Campus attacks: Targeted violence affecting institutions of higher education
Estimating the number of jobs created or saved
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Opportunity for all: How the American public benefits from internet access at U.S. libraries
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation
The workplace realities
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Commission to Build a Healthier America
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Education watch 2009
Changes in Graduation Rates by State (Progress and Challenge Indexes)
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
Institute for a Competitive Workforce
National Institute for Literacy
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Performance measurement and Return-on-Investment (ROI) in the workforce development system
The fiscal impacts of college attainment
Young, underemployed, and optimistic: Coming of age, slowly, in a tough economy
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
Vendor product review: A consumer's guide to real-time labor market information
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
America's youth: Transitions to adulthood
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
Common core state standards & career and technical education: Bridging the divide between college and career readiness
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
The promise of career pathways systems change
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
What is "career ready"?
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Healthcare
Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Trends in student aid 2012
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
The hidden costs of community colleges
Women Employed
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
The global gender gap index: 2011
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Ten facts about the recovery
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
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)
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
The condition of education 2011
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
The economic value of higher teacher quality
Latino college completion: State series
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011
Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
The common core state standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program

 

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