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Author(s):Achieve, Inc.
Title: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
Source:www.achieve.org/files/50-state-07-Final.pdf
Date:2007
Organization:Achieve, Inc.
Short Description:This annual report contains updates on the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and work.
Annotation:This annual report contains updates on the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and work. The 2007 survey finds that at least 48 states are now actively engaged in reform efforts of some kind.
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Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Is school funding fair? A national report card
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Gender inequalities in education
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
The Future Ready Project
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
8th Annual AP report to the nation
2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
The state of preschool 2011: State preschool yearbook
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
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
The future workforce of Indiana
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Schools, skills, and synapses
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Evolving No Child Left Behind
Chasing the high school graduation rate: Getting the data we need and using it right
The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school
I-STEM Resource Network
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
What every college access practitioner should know about: The early college high school initiative – Indiana plans for the early college high school for science and technologies
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school
EPAS®: A system that works
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Sustaining focus on secondary school reading: Lessons and recommendations from the Alabama reading initiative
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
The first year of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
ACT high school profile report: The graduation class of 2007 (Indiana)
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Postsecondary Access and Success
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Building the foundation for bright futures: Final report of the NGA task force on school readiness
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Expanding learning time in high schools
A voice from the middle
Understanding high school graduation rates (updated): National and state-specific information
A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
Kids Count state-level data online
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Strategic instruction model
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
An action agenda for improving America's high schools
Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south
Education Trust, Inc
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns
Network news: Focus on P-16 partnerships
Getting honest about grad rates: How states play the numbers and students lose
Detail to the key components of Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student preparation for college success
The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform
Primary progress, secondary challenge
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 1: Review of current and proposed graduation indicators
Success for All Foundation
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
State high school exit exams: A policy in transition
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Diplomas count: An essential guide to graduation policy and rates
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
The state of preschool 2005: State preschool yearbook
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the common core of data: School years 2001-02 and 2002-03
Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002
Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth
Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school
The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students
African American achievement in America
Latino achievement in America
Staying on course: Standards based reform in America's schools
Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success
Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy
Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now
State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
2004 Public opinion survey on education in Indiana
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
The education pipeline in the U.S., 1970-2000
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Measured progress: Achievement rises, and gaps narrow, but too slowly
The challenge of access and persistence
Where have all the students gone
Lesser and greater expectations: The wasted senior year and college-level study in high school
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores
Latino youth and the pathway to college
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
Tennessee higher education commission: The case for P-16 education in Tennessee
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Education watch online
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education
The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery
High school reform - Issue brief
Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04
Schools to watch
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Education watch 2006 state summary reports
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Office of Indian education programs
Indian students and college preparation
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist
Latinos in secondary education
What works for Latino students
A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum
Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness
Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Graduation rates in Indiana: An analysis of various methods of caluculating graduation rates
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Building the foundation for bright futures: A governors guide to school readiness
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
The career pathways how-to guide
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
More information on the methodology, data, and terms used in the AP dropout factory story
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Rethinking high school: Five profiles of innovative models for student success
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Learning in a new key
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
Better outcomes for all: Promoting partnerships between Head Start and state Pre-K
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Knocking at the college door: California state report
ACT high school profile report: National
Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Reading--Young children's achievement and classroom experiences
Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
The Kalamazoo Promise
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Building community learning systems: The Columbus learning center
Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004
Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
The minds of boys
Federal Education Budget Project
Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool
K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards
Measuring up 2008
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
Dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2006
Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Literacy instruction in the content areas: Getting to the core of middle and high school improvement
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Sizing up state standards: 2008
College tools for schools
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
Is high school tough enough?
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
AYP results for 2010-11
Early warning system middle grades tool
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains
Expanded measures of school performance
The condition of college and career readiness 2011
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
P-20 governance
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
Closing the gap between high school and college
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
The condition of education in brief: 2005
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Advancing STEM learning across the educational pipeline: Statewide efforts in Ohio
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
The Everyone Graduates Center
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts
Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
The state of learning disabilities 2009
Meeting the invention challenge
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Center on Reinventing Public Education
The accountability illusion
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
Measuring college and career readiness: ACT profile report - national: Graduating class of 2009
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
A framework for a multi-state human capital development data system
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Education Trust-West
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
What does research say about 21st century skills?
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
ED Data Express
Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
College Board AP Summary Reports: 2009
New America Foundation Early Education Initiative
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
The achievement gap where you live
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
No time to delay: Delivering the statewide data systems California's students deserve
Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
The College Completion Agenda
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Building an early childhood professional development system
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
What are examples of state legislation focused on high school dropout prevention?
High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison
The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
State test score trends through 2007-08, Part 5: Are there differences in achievement between boys and girls?
Alternative schools and programs for public school students at risk of educational failure: 2007-08
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
Retaining Teacher Talent Study
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
How much growth toward college readiness is reasonable to expect in high school?
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
Ringing the bell for K-12 teacher tenure reform
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2006-07
Still a freshman: Examining the prevalence and characteristics of ninth-grade retention across six states
BC AVID: Early implementation report
Closing the access gap: Does information matter?
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Deciding on postsecondary education
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Gallup student poll national report
Education Equality Project
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Perspectives on the key K-12 legislation of 2009
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992-2022 (State Profiles)
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Central Indiana Talent Alliance
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
Developmental education in community colleges
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
The false promise of class-size reduction
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Parents' guide to student success
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Workforce development economics 101: State by state snapshots
Common core state standards alignment
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Science and engineering indicators 2012
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Year two of implementing the common core state standards: States' progress and challenges
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds
On her majesty's school inspection service
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
5 Education factors in focus
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Common core state standards & career and technical education: Bridging the divide between college and career readiness
Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states
MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards
The condition of education 2012 (Website)
International Baccalaureate Diploma Program Subcommittee: Policy barriers identified
Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified
2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Gateway to College
Good Shepherd Services
Dropout prevention practice guide
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Condition of education 2008
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Raising boys' achievement
College For Every Student
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
School funding's tragic flaw
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Incorporating ACT scores into your statewide assessment
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Are high school grades inflated?
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Translations for success
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school
Washington Data and Reports
Raising the compulsory school attendance age: The case for reform
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Colorado Reports
The national articulation and transfer network
Child care and early education state-by-state data
Projected high school graduates
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
2007 ACT National and state scores
What is a college culture? Facilitating college preparation through organizational change
Student debt and the class of 2006
The proficiency illusion
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Closing the achievement gap series part 1: Is Indiana ready for state-sponsored prekindergarten programs?
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Full-day Kindergarten: A study of state policies in the United States
College learning for the new global century
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Reading next: A vision for action and research in middle and high school literacy
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
State education reforms – Standards, assessment, and accountability
Women on the rise
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
A study of admissions officers' perceptions of and attitudes toward homeschooled students
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
High Tech High Foundation
Academic pathway inventories
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Talent Development High Schools
P-16 Collaboration in the States
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Who's counted? Who's counting? Understanding high school graduation rates
Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later
Indiana guidance report: Learn More student survey
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Indiana's dropout prevention tool-kit: A legislative primer
A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
The high school transcript study: A decade of change in curricula and achievement, 1990-2000
Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
Counseling and college counseling in America’s high schools
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
State data systems and privacy concerns: Strategies for balancing public interests
Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states
High school graduation rates, college continuation rates, and chance for college by state: 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act
Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student achievement (Powerpoint)
Improving education outcomes for foster youth: The Guardian Scholars Project Year 1
Ohio early college high school initiative
The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts
Students as allies in improving their schools: A report on work in progress
Minority student achievement network
State higher education finance: FY 2004
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success
State of college admission 2007
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Education strengthened when treated as a seamless whole
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
Education counts
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation
High school coursework: Policy trends and implications for higher education
Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Projections of education statistics to 2015
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
Trends in student aid 2012
2012 National survey of school counselors
Promoting work-based learning: Efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Learning what it takes: An initial look at how schools are using early warning data and collaborative response teams to keep all students on track to success
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
An examination of the information technology job market
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
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

 

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