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Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs

National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

EPAS®: A system that works

Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education

Getting ready for success: Bridging the gap between high school and college in Tacoma, Washington

Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

EPAS® Meets unique needs of GEAR UP programs

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all

Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion

College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08

College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement

Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars

Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools

National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study

Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school

Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score

Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?

Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model

Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas

Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas

NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide

Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program

Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults

Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education

Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations

Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates

Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes

The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress

The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups

What kind of test preparation is best?

Incorporating ACT scores into your statewide assessment

ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)

The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service

Early intervention program and college partnerships

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

GEAR UP

Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

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

High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness

Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

Postsecondary success

Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School

Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success

Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

A first look at the common core and college and career readiness

The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year

Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results

The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals

Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS

Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad

BC AVID: Early implementation report

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success

Preparation for college admissions exams

Making high school students into "college material"

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

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

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools

On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs

The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

Preparing Oklahoma students for the future

The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test

Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains

Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities

Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity

7th Annual AP report to the nation

From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model

Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes

School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America

Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report

Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California

8th Annual AP report to the nation

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness

The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement

Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college

For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students

Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports

The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence

Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas

A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood

High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?

State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students

Ramp-up to Readiness

Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08

Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers

Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career

Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college

Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs

The nation's report card: Science 2009

Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring

Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges

Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system

After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality

A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures

The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable

The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence

Improving students' readiness for college: Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Illinois District 233

Developing the STEM education pipeline

Relationships between EPAS scores and college preparatory course work in high school

Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students

Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure

Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults

Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8

The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond

Fixing No Child Left Behind

Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency

Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline

Reading between the lines: What ACT reveals about college readiness in reading

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006

Pathways to college access and success

Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing

Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Educational Policy Improvement Center

Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation

2009 ACT National and State Scores

Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools

Deciding on postsecondary education

Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help

Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers

Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school

Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school

Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges

College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students

Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation

The Condition of Education 2010

Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better

How much growth toward college readiness is reasonable to expect in high school?

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools

Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps

How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends

Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004

Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges

Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states

Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?

A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards

Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success

A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP

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

Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn

Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports

Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges

Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges

A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success

College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy

The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes

The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males

Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers

Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview

Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

A next social contract for the primary years of education

How does extended learning time impact student achivement?

Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time

Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

College readiness standards

The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary

A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states

Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus

Breakthrough Collaborative

Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities

Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief

Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?

On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college

It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools

Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students

Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured

High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education

High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners

Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels

Schools to watch

Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework

Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

What works clearinghouse

Dual credit and exam-based courses in US public high schools:2002-03

Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens

Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act

Condition of education 2008

The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

McNair scholar handbook

National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update

New England Journal of Higher Education

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

College For Every Student

Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education

Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools

The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences

Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect

Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates

Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

A little now for a lot later: A look at a Texas advanced placement incentive program

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college

Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative

The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Improving performance on the ACT assessment

Differential grading standards among high schools

Are high school grades inflated?

Your senior year

A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect

Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed

Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits

National Coalition for College Completion

Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York

Expanded measures of school performance

The condition of college and career readiness 2011

2011 ACT national and state scores: State reports

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students

Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school

Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program

Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide

Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools

Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males

The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions

Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes

Assessing deeper learning

Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

The hidden costs of community colleges

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals

Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation

Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards

Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings

State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory

From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools

Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs

Advocacy in action toolkit

Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts

The economic value of opportunity youth

Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning

Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching

Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion

Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?

Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy

Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges

K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program

The reality of college readiness 2012: National report

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class

Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy

The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress

One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years

Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts

The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts

Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California

The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs

The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies

The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students

One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas

The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams

Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men

2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers

2012 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences

Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation

Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?

Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program

2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents

Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California

The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation

A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system

Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education

Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships

Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness

The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011

Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

AYP results for 2010-11

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions

Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications

A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research

2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads

Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students

A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world

Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools

Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009

What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs

Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico

Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs

2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills

The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?

Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning

The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students

2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males

Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators

Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education

Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts

Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities

Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education

Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges

Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school

State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform

Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools

The College Match Program

Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?

Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program

Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student

Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)

GEAR UP Data: An information center of data, research, and analysis on GEAR UP

The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance

The undereducated American

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care

Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options

States' progress toward high school restructuring

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

ACT high school profile report: National

Selected state data

More states using the ACT as part of alignment efforts

Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college

Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991

Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace

U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work

Interpreting ACT assessment scores

Action plan: Educators/Policymakers

College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum

Gender fairness using the ACT

Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

A college access contract

Center for native education

What works clearinghouse: Middle school math

Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented

Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability

How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?

High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college

ACT high school profile report: The graduation class of 2007 (Indiana)

A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students

Knowhow2go.org

LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11

Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement

Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges

Windows on achievement and inequality

Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future

North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students

Value-added analysis and education policy

Orphan Foundation of America

GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage

How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind

Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships

National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations

Programs at higher education institutions for disadvantaged precollege students

Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)

Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce

Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information

Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males

Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy

Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access

Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school

A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education

Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children

Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid

Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college

America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study

Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms

Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities

Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future

One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants

All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006

Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support

Finding the right college for you

Foundation for excellent schools

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

College is possible

Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work

Primary progress, secondary challenge

The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First

The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores

Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students

Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report

Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth

Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success

School relationships foster success for African American students

Advisory committee on student financial assistance

Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs

ACT, Inc.

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

Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges

A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all

Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials

Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools

College readiness for all toolbox

2009 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students

Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do

Family firsts: Reach for your dreams

From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success

State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college

Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers

It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems

Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts

Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity

The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?

Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners

Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment

Campaign for High School Equity

Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

Education watch 2009

Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders

10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education

Sizing up state standards: 2008

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools

State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory

Gateway to College

Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college

2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)

Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide

The breaking through practice guide

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses

Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.

Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs

Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs

Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies

Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California

Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)

Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

The US STEM education model (simulation)

Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent

The 2010 Brown Center report on American education

Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways

Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey

Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects

Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?

2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative

Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries

The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else

Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda

Chidren's Budget 2010

Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles

Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?

Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis

The National Indian Education Study

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

Sample state legislation to extend foster care, adoption, and guardianship protections, services, and payments to young adults age 18 and over

Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals

New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

Is school funding fair? A national report card

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it

Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students

Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children

The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah

Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads

Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics

College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know

Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships

Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations

Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind

Family factors and student outcomes

Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization

The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model

Toward reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from New York City's conditional cash transfer program

State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009

How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?

State test score trends through 2007-08, Part 5: Are there differences in achievement between boys and girls?

Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

Eight components of college and career readiness counseling

Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers

The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)

SREB/Go Alliance

The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges

Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)

FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand

Afterschool Alliance

Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders

Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study

Project U-turn

The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up

The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities

Good Shepherd Services

The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

State future workforce gap summaries

Black Alliance for Educational Options

Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training

Measuring up 2008

The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us

Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers

Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems

The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school

Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge

Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step

Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school

Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements

Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 - Education provisions

The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress

Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)

College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

International Benchmarking Toolkit

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

National Center for Summer Learning

A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states

Financial education in TRIO programs

Addressing study error in the random assignment national evaluation of Upward Bound: Do the conclusions change?

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide

Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

Pathways to College Network

Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing

Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools

Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate

North Carolina Early Mathematics Placement Testing

Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education

Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools

The value of value-added data

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

College readiness and high school-to-college success

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students

Seize the moment: The need for a comprehensive federal investment in adolescent literacy

Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

2008 College-bound seniors

Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

Connected by 25: Financing housing supports for youth transitioning out of high school

Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care

African American achievement in America

Latino achievement in America

A summary of career beginnings impact evaluation: Findings from a program for disadvantaged high school students

Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students

TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)

Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid

A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children

The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education

State high school exit exams: A maturing reform

TRIO Programs

The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act

Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion

How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Do graduation tests measure up: A closer look at state high school exit exams

Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools

Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students

Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs

What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education

The American diploma project: Overview of research

Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college

School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis

Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions

Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth

Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities

Access to the most selective private colleges by high-ability, low-income students: Are they out there?

National inventory of academic pathways

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

American student achievement institute

Summary of Indiana policy environment to support and sustain early college high schools

Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different

Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Project GRAD

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

Minority student achievement network

Success for All Foundation

Twenty-first Century Scholars Program

Preparate para la universidad: A college planning guide in Spanish for students in grades 9 through 12

EducationQuest

College entrance tests

College guide for students with disabilities

High school planner: Your guide to planning for college

College access: A framework for systemic program development

Financial aid glossary: Some terms you may enounter on the road

Scholarship guide

Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future

Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy

ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006

National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments

Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students

PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study

Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners

College bound seniors state profile report tutorial

Economic diversity on campus

Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South

America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Indian students and college preparation

Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study

Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going

Middle Start

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

First year college performance: A study of home school graduates and traditional school graduates

Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Center for Student Opportunity

The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

Admission possible

Pathways to improving practice: Data-driven pre-college outreach programs

It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

Connecting schools, families, and communities: Stories and results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education investments

Closing the achievement gap: School, community, family connections

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education

Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

Setting the record straight: How trendy approaches to college access might or might not be helping low-income students

Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

Federal Education Budget Project

Education Commission of the States: Research studies database

Who graduates in California?

Encouraging girls in math and science

Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning

An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth

A Better Chance.org

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11

Breaking through: Factsheet

School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment

Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

National Center for Learning Disabilities

The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings

Creating a culture of literacy: A guide for middle and high school principals

Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam

Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students

American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools

School Redesign Network

The Breakthrough High School project

Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives

'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report

Starfish Initiative

A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education

The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools

No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education

Monitoring changes in high school average ACT composite scores over time

What works in student retention

Financial aid and scholarship information for undocumented students

Preparing for college

College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills

ACT high school profile report: Indiana

Back to school: Federal student aid policy and adult college enrollment

The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report

Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs

Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year

A portrait of school improvement grantees

Improving community college success

Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis

The condition of education 2011

Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment

Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students

Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

The false promise of class-size reduction

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam

Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED

Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels

Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative

Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars

Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways

Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation

Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards

Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success

Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future

Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents

Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior

False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls

Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges

Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students

Everybody ready for college

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs

What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care

Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders

Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't

High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators

Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America

Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes

Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards

Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion

It can be done, it's being done, and here's how

Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?

Transforming education in America

Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory

Evaluate mentoring programs

Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth

No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries

Western Policy Exchanges

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools

Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees

Adolescent literacy

A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color

Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education

It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years

Is high school tough enough?

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce

On her majesty's school inspection service

The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class

What we know about dual enrollment

Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness

Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure

2012 National survey of school counselors

College and career development organizer

Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices

Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes

ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator

Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States

Enrollment management trends report: A snapshot of the 2011 ACT tested high school graduates

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates

States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education

Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals

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

The nation's report card: Science 2011

What is "career ready"?

Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce

Digest of Education Statistics 2011

Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook

Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries

The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom

It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges

Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

Adult college completion toolkit

A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education

A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth

State high school exit exams: A policy in transition

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth

Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration

RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning

Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core

What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs

Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative

College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet

The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates

The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success

Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance

State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later

Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states

On the road to success

Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study

Improving the odds for failing schools

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements

General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle

Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates

Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions

Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students

STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)

Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

College Bound Seniors 2011

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

The Future Ready Project

The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways

What do you want in an afterschool program?

Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education

Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid

Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

Closing the expectations gap 2011

Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010

Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training

Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults

The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

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

ESEA Briefing Book

Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education

Parents' guide to student success

Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process

Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society

Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative

Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success

Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning

We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens

Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children

A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time

Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09

Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges

Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region

Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it

Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data

Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

The economic value of higher teacher quality

Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University

Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

Helping Teens Succeed

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Toward ensuring a smooth transition into high school

Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school

Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program

Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities

UA Adult Focus

College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education

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

Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)

Guide for parents: Ten steps to prepare your child for college

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans

Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies

From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

High school - Advanced placement

The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)

Impact of for-profit and non-profit management on student achievement: The Philadelphia experiment

Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes

The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007

The nation's report card: Reading 2007

National Council of La Raza

Retooling career and technical education

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

Learning in a new key

Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills

Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform

Database of 21st century skills assessments

Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school

Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes

State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities

What every college access practitioner should know: About the importance of commitment

Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

The minds of boys

A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000

Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates

Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability

Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations

From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

The Mind Trust

Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions

Indiana Chafee Education and Training Voucher (ETV) Program

Academic competitiveness grants

Kids2College

Anderson University: ADVANCE

Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap

Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

ACT's COMPASS: Setting the right course for college success

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

School funding's tragic flaw

The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math

Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs

A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?

Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool

50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey

The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs use data to make decisions

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools

Pre-college academic programs and interventions

Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments

CPS: A leader in AP growth

A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002

Finance and resource issues in high school reform

Strategic instruction model

Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts

NDSFA: The financial aid partnership

The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path

How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students

Research brief: How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth grade students

The high school transcript study: A decade of change in curricula and achievement, 1990-2000

Prep for prep

Indiana's dropout prevention tool-kit: A legislative primer

Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools

Miles to go: Louisiana

CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success

Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04

What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction

Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success

Homeschooled adults: Are they ready for college

Questbridge

A study of admissions officers' perceptions of and attitudes toward homeschooled students

Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)

Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors

National College Access Program Directory

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

Bridging the gap between high school and college

High Tech High Foundation

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

National forum to accelerate middle grades reform

Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program

Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind

Recent STEM initiatives

Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school

Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization

Federal Pell Grants: Implications of increasing the maximum reward

Campus-based student financial aid programs under the higher education act

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Ensuring academic success for English learners

Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools

The language of opportunity: Expanding employment prospects for adults with limited English skills

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools

Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined

Standards for quality online teaching

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)

Frequently asked questions

Eligiendo una universidad (Choosing a college)

Twenty things you need to know about financing college

Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge

Expanding learning time in high schools

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance

Institute for Educational Leadership

Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments

Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college

Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum

Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)

Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success

Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

ACT college readiness benchmarks, retention, and first-year college GPA: What's the connection?

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness

Puente Project

Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models

Knowledge is power program

National Association of Street Schools

Citizen Schools

Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program

Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools

Big Picture Company

What kids can do: Voices and work from the next generation

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

College access: Results from a survey of low-income teens and parents

Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid

KnowledgeWorks Foundation

Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve

Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students

Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college

The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success

Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

The student debt dilemma: Debt aversion as a barrier to college access

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives

National High School Center

The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad

A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report

Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences

One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity

High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

Preparing for college: Building expectations, changing realities

Preparing students for success in college

Pre-college outreach programs for low-income students: A literature review

Lesser and greater expectations: The wasted senior year and college-level study in high school

Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers

Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom

The education liason model

Thinking college early

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future

Who goes to college? High school context, academic preparation, the college choice process, and college attendance

Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals

Indiana project on academic success

Lumina Foundation for Education

Educational Policy Institute

Mentoring at-risk high school students: Evaluation of a school-based program

Peer tutoring and mentoring services for disadvantaged secondary school students

Overcoming obstacles to preparing for college: Perspectives from a rural Upward Bound program

First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students

Early college high school initiative

National college access network

Achievement in America

Education Trust, Inc

Achieve, Inc.

The Everyone Graduates Center

The state of learning disabilities 2009

On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

NACAC Prep for college calendar

Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans

Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans

New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities

Coalition for Evidence-based Policy

Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation

Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

College-going culture rubric

Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture

Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition

Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students

The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

No Excuses University Network

Mapping state proficiency standards onto NAEP scales: 2005-2007

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

Overcoming doubts about online learning

Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college

Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing

Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission

The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states

A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools

Insuring college failure risk

College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system

The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education

The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California

The accountability illusion

Opportunity.gov

Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature

Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)

Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students

A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness

The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability

Education Equality Project

Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs

Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

ASCA National standards for students

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners

Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed

Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it

Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers

Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas

Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America

First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

The future of middle-skill jobs

Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act

US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models

The impact of the mortgage crisis on children

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success

Study of the effectiveness and efficiency of charter schools in Indiana

The Equity Project

Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment

College access and success state data

Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States

Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students

YouthBuild USA

The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English

California State University: Early assessment program

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college

Federal access policies and higher education for working adults

College tools for schools

SparkAction.org

A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants

Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04

Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint

Evidence-based dropout prevention programs

Community College 2.0

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates

Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)

Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college

What does research say about 21st century skills?

End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments

What educators should learn from ER

America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis

Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students

Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete

Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community

Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)

RTI classification tool and resource locator

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform

Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College

Council for Exceptional Children

College InSight

State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project

Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use

Who are America's poor children: The official story

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)

The connection between health and high school dropout

Trends in the use of school choice: 1993-2007

Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal

Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field

State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?

State test score trends through 2007-08: Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

Complete College America

Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!

Indiana's Growth Model (for measuring student achievement)

Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

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: Supplement to the analysts' guide

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

Special populations: Tips for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?

Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community

Closing the gap between high school and college

States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards

When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards

Quick stats fact sheet: High schools in the United States

Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce

We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys

Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students

Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district

Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

Cracks in the ivory tower? The views of education professors circa 2010

America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents

School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood

A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners

Financial aid at California community colleges: Pell grants and fee waivers in 2003-04

Which achievement gap?

The high school senior class of 2003-04: Steps toward postsecondary enrollment

Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism

On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006

Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?

Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students

Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas

College Board AP Summary Reports: 2009

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education

Building an early childhood professional development system

Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education

Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states

Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future

Education pays 2010

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion

Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence

The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers

Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers

Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)

How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup

America's private public schools