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Author(s):ACT, Inc.
Title:Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Source:http://www.act.org/path/policy/pdf/coil_benefit...
Date:2006
Organization:ACT, Inc.
Short Description:This article discusses the benefits found in Colarado and Illinois following statewide ACT administration.
Annotation:In Colorado and Illinois, statewide ACT administration has contributed to improvements in the following six areas: student preparation for college, student readiness for college, identification of college-ready students, college enrollment and retention levels, workforce planning and career counseling, and economic benefits to students and states.
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College Access Program Curricula and Instructional Resources
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Improving Postsecondary Student Success
National College Access Organizations
Policy
Preparation/College Readiness
Social and Economic Benefits of College/Economic Development
Transition to College

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Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Research support for school counseling
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
National Coalition for College Completion
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
STEM: Good jobs now and for the future
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
The US STEM education model (simulation)
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
A first look at the common core and college and career readiness
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
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?
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
Center on Education and the Workforce
Building an early childhood professional development system
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Grantmakers for Education
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
First focus: Making children and families the priority
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
Pathways to College Network
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies
Council for Exceptional Children
Maximizing the potential of older adults: Benefits to state economies and individual well-being
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
College readiness standards
Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
The future of middle-skill jobs
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Campaign for High School Equity
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
College readiness and high school-to-college success
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Employer guide to adult education for work: Transforming adult eduction to build a skilled workforce
Connected by 25: Information resource center for youth transitions initiatives
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
What helps or hinders students' chances of success in college?
Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
Database of 21st century skills assessments
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Distance learning and adults with disabilities
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Retooling career and technical education
Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
The Mind Trust
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
The male achievement gap in Indiana
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century
Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
Center for Law and Social Policy
I-STEM Resource Network
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Promoting student success: Indiana educational and career services
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Schools to watch
Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
Education Trust, Inc
Pathways to college access and success
National inventory of academic pathways
Closing the expectations gap: 2006
Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era
ACT, Inc.
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Value added: The costs and benefits of college preparatory programs in the united states
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
21st century skills for 21st century jobs
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative
Accelerated learning for all
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Differential grading standards among high schools
EPAS® Meets unique needs of GEAR UP programs
Exploring careers
Financial aid and scholarship information for undocumented students
Cómo obtener su GED (How to obtain your GED)
TOEFL: Examen de inglés como segunda lengua (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
21st Century skills map
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Western Policy Exchanges
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Prison vs. Princeton
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
Data sharing in public benefit programs: An action agenda for removing barriers
2012 National survey of school counselors
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
Innovation in higher education: Public opinion survey results
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V

 

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