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Author(s):Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Title:All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
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Date:2006
Organization:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Short Description:This report highlights the findings of the Bill & Melinda’s Gates Foundation from its first seven years of grantmaking directed at preparing every student for college, work, and citizenship.
Annotation:This report highlights the findings of the Bill & Melinda’s Gates Foundation from its first seven years of grantmaking directed at preparing every student for college, work, and citizenship. The findings include: (1) Results will take root most quickly in new schools; (2) Improvements happen more slowly at existing high schools; (3) District-level commitment is critical and efforts must be clear and comprehensive to work; and (4) Policy sets the context for school change and is a critical path to scaling up best practices.
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Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
What educators should learn from ER
California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Closing the expectations gap 2010
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
High school remediation
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
Creating jobs and supporting homeless students
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
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
State test score trends through 2007-08: Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Retaining teacher talent: The view from Generation Y
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Empowering effective teachers: Strategies for implementing reforms
Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Breakthrough Collaborative
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
How much are college students borrowing?
College readiness for all toolbox
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey
Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery
Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College
Closing the access gap: Does information matter?
Survey Of Secondary School Students
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?
Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?
Education Equality Project
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006
A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
Nontraditional undergraduates
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
Finding the right college for you
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Expanding learning time in high schools
Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school
What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?
College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Recent STEM initiatives
College learning for the new global century
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study
Rethinking high school: Inaugural graduations at New York City's new high schools
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Bridging the gap between high school and college
High Tech High Foundation
National High School Center
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Big Picture Company
Students as allies in improving their schools: A report on work in progress
What works clearinghouse
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Creating schools that work
Dual enrollment of high school students at postsecondary institutions: 2002-03
Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
Horace
The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Pathways to College Network framework: Mutually supportive visions and complementary goals
Miles to go: Louisiana
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04
Reclaiming the American dream
Getting ready for college: What student engagement data can tell us
The high school transcript study: A decade of change in curricula and achievement, 1990-2000
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Who goes to college? High school context, academic preparation, the college choice process, and college attendance
Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
African American achievement in America
The state of our nation's youth
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
Developing the STEM education pipeline
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
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
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Knowhow2go.org
Toward a more comprehensive conception of college readiness
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Retooling career and technical education
Evaluation of the early college high school initiative
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
Better outcomes for all: Promoting partnerships between Head Start and state Pre-K
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development
From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
Mental health in school and school improvement: Current status, concerns, and new directions
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer
The real technology challenge
Orphan Foundation of America
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics
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
Ranking Systems Clearinghouse
2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Center for Law and Social Policy
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Federal Education Budget Project
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
I-STEM Resource Network
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Condition of education 2008
Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
Windows on achievement and inequality
National Center for Learning Disabilities
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Closing the expectations gap, 2008

 

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