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Author(s):Bailey, T., Alfonso, M., Calcagno, J., Jenkins, D., Kienzl, G., and Leinbach, T
Title:Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Source:http://www.tc.columbia.edu/ccrc/PAPERS/LuminaRe...
Date:2004
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Short Description:Describes student characteristics and educational outcomes at community colleges.
Annotation:This report describes student characteristics and educational outcomes at community colleges. Completion and transfer and surrounding issues are examined, and a review of research on student outcomes at community colleges is conducted. In addition, a program of empirical research on institutional graduation rates is initiated, with analysis of community college graduation rates by developing a benchmarking system that evaluates college performance, in light of differences in college characteristics.
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Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Improving the odds for failing schools
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
The condition of education 2011
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
National Coalition for College Completion
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
The College Match Program
The case for change in college admissions
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Advocacy in action toolkit
Transforming education in America
Snapshot report: Mobility
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Project WIn-Win
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
What new faculty need to know about assessment
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
The economic value of opportunity youth
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Cracking the credit hour
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
Healthcare
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Student success in higher education
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
Everybody ready for college
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Community college and high school partnerships
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Understanding the working college student
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Global Skills for Global Completion
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
The first year experience: Are we making it any better
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Measuring up 2006
Improving access to the baccalaureate
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001
College learning for the new global century
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Opening Doors project publications
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes
Enrollment status and outcomes
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Workers need training, not tough talk
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
Committing to student engagement: Reflections on CCSSE's first five years: 2007 findings
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Education and economic competitiveness
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
The real technology challenge
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Project Complete
New England Journal of Higher Education
Strategic directions in Indiana education
More student success: A systemic solution
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
Sexual orientation and outcomes in college
How much are college students borrowing?
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
Nontraditional undergraduates
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
Higher education accountability for student learning
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
National Council of La Raza
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice
En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Institutional graduation rate for 1985 entering cohorts
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work
Student success
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Engagement by design
First generation college students: A literature review
State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer
Data sources for improving college access and success
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Time to Completion Web Site
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
The effects of public support on college attainment
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
The breaking through practice guide
Community College 2.0
A next social contract for the primary years of education
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Center on Education and the Workforce
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
The nature of innovation in the community college
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
The College Completion Agenda
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Closing the gap between high school and college
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
What works in student retention 2010
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Assuring academic quality in the 21st century: Self-regulation in a new era
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
2012 SREB Annual Report
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
An examination of the information technology job market
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Cohort default rates in context
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
The undereducated American
Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
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
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers

 

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