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Author(s):Intercultural Development Research Association
Title:Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families
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Date:2007
Organization:Intercultural Development Research Association
Short Description:This guide explains how to plan for college. It is designed as a planning workbook, and includes steps for choosing high school courses, selecting a college or university, financial aid planning, and an action calendar.
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College and Career Planning (for Parents)
College and Career Planning (for Students)
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Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs
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Minority/Race/Ethnicity
Preparation/College Readiness
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Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
The College Match Program
Gender inequalities in education
Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children
The distribution of grants and scholarships by race
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
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Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Central Indiana Talent Alliance
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
The rise of college student borrowing
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011
Piling it on: The growth of proprietary school loans and the consequences for students
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
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)
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
The College Place
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers
Canadian college student finances: Second edition
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
Insuring college failure risk
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
And after high school? A pan-Canadian study of grade 12 students in French-language schools in minority settings: Educational aspirations and plans to pursue a career in their home regions -- Executive Summary
Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture
IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Moving English language learners to college- and career-readiness
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Campaign for High School Equity
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California
The public realities of private student loans
FinAid: Income-based repayment
SREB Factbook on higher education
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
USA Funds: Indiana state resources
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Education watch 2009
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis
Official cohort default rates for schools
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
College tools for schools
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Development Fund for Black Students in Science and Technology Scholarships
Gates Millennium Scholars Scholarships
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Condition of education 2008
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships
Back to College (Back2College)
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
SoMD CAN Curriculum Guides
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Choosing a college major
Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Translations for success
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
12 Ways adult students can pay for 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
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 postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
What works for Latino students
Financial aid letter.com
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Returning to our roots: Student access
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
State of college readiness for Latino students
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
College bound? Don't get hooked by misleading financial aid offers
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
Tips for parents with middle school teens: Countdown to college
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Improving math performance
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Best Business Schools
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students
GoCollege
Academic competitiveness grants
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Going2College.org
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
Effective literacy and English language instruction for English learners in the elementary grades
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
College Prep 101
Bridges to Success
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
U Links
College Planning Network
Act, Inc: College planning resources in Spanish
Indiana family college savings program
State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana
Twenty-first Century Scholars Program
General financial aid resources
Early college cost estimator
FINAID - Family Contribution Estimator
Sallie Mae financial aid calculators
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
NCHEMS information center
Latino achievement in America
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Empty promises: The myth of college access in America
Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students
Annotated list of Pathways research, papers, reports, and other publications by focus area
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Indiana’s postsecondary indicators: 2004 performance and descriptive indicators
Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
USA Funds
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
Financial aid resources
Categorical financial aid resources
Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education
The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Kiplinger's 100 best values in public colleges
The Education Network college planning site
FinAid! financial aid website
Section 529 state college savings programs
National association of state approving agencies
Minority teacher/special education services scholarship
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Measuring up 2006
GI bill: A reality check
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
A summary of research and publications on early childhood for American Indian and Alaska Native children
It's not what you tell them, it's what they hear: College access marketing in your community
Alliance Bernstein College Savings Crunch
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas
American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
National Urban League Scholarships
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
Federal requirements for homeschoolers seeking college admission and financial aid
The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success
Indian students and college preparation
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Office of Indian education programs
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
College is affordable: A pilot study
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
The nation's report card: Science 2011
How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
Paying for college: Cost comparison worksheet
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
College hopes and worries survey
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
BigFuture: By the College Board
Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents
Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
8th Annual AP report to the nation
Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead
Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Grading student loans
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
How America pays for college 2011
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Measuring efficiency in the community college sector
Trends in college spending, 1999-2009
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
GraduateTutor.com: Your scholarship directory
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition
Financial awareness counseling
How America pays for college 2012
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
The student debt crisis
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
Native American culture: Education
Linking career/technical studies to broader high school reform
Failing grades? American families and their college savings efforts
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
The debt explosion among college graduates
Student loan forgiveness programs
Parents are too optimistic about scholarships
Quick facts about student debt
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Graduating with debt: The biggest threat to young American's financial well-being?
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
The career pathways how-to guide
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Debunking the myth
Education: Solving the GI bill mystery
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
The Citigroup college planning guide: Every New York City student can go to college
Cashing in on the GI bill
GI bill education benefits
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Supporting parent, family, and community involvement in your school
Involving Mom and Dad
E-Guidance counselor college planning site
Turning college and career planning into family communication
Scholarship Help
Addressing financial aid in college preparation programs
Financial aid and postsecondary opportunity for nontraditional age pre-college students: The roles of information and education delivery systems
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Miles to go: Louisiana
American Indian science and engineering society
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
Dual credit and exam-based courses in US public high schools:2002-03
Reclaiming the American dream
CPS: A leader in AP growth
Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education
Boys and girls harbor
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
Financial aid estimators and calculators
Searchable scholarship database
Students with disabilities: Preparing for postsecondary education: Know your rights and responsibilities
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
School relationships foster success for African American students
Improving your child's education: A guide for Latino parents
U.S. Department of Education: The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit
African American achievement in America
Student aid and tax benefits: Better research and guidance will facilitate comparison of effectiveness and student use
Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood
Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students
Thinking college early
Preparing students for success in college
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
College readiness begins in middle school
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice
The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education
Discounting toward disaster: Tuition discounting, college finances, and enrollments of low-income undergraduates
Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century
State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality
Do grants matter?
What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction
Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students
Lumina Foundation focus: Dreams detoured: Rising college costs alter plans and threaten futures
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices
Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004
Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Education Commission of the States: Postsecondary Issues
Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience
Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different
The state of college affordability in Indiana
More on affordability: Response to Tom Mortenson
Academic pathways to access and student success
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
Lumina Foundation focus
FastWeb
Primary progress, secondary challenge
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad
ACT financial aid need estimator
Federal financial aid
College Goal Sunday
Learn More financial aid information
Students.gov
How to help your child prepare for education beyond high school
Sallie Mae: College answer
College Board Calculators
Profiles of Indiana and US colleges and universities
Talbot's student planning book
Foundation for excellent schools
ScholarShop
Cal-SOAP
College Board online college planning resources
Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans
Education Finance Council
Explaining financial aid
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
HomeworkSpot
Strategic directions in Indiana education
Early intervention program and college partnerships
McNair scholar handbook
Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability
National Center for Learning Disabilities
The funding gap 2007
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
Starfish Initiative
Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community
The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation
Encouraging girls in math and science
California career planning guide 2003-05
Adventures in education: For college students
2007 CHCI Pre-college planning checklist for parents & middle school students
College View
Get-recruited.com
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools
Creating a culture of literacy: A guide for middle and high school principals
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Learning in a new key
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Student loans and public accountability
Wrestling rising costs with innovation
Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07
The changing racial and ethnic composition of U.S. public schools
College admission for homeschoolers
Creating a college-going culture guide
National Council of La Raza
Postsecondary Access and Success
Retooling career and technical education
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Gates Millenium Scholars Program
College Savings Plan Network
The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families
The national articulation and transfer network
Access to success initiative
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students
College guide for students with disabilities
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Great schools: Countdown to college
Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
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
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Latinos in elementary education
Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
Homework helper: Help your child take control
Motivating the unmotivated student
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
Preparing for college
Pasantías y otras formas de adquirir experiencia profesional (Exploring careers)
Cómo obtener su GED (How to obtain your GED)
Latino students and U.S. high schools
How to Choose a College: A Guide for the Student with a Disability
Financialaidtips.org
Types of colleges: What suits your child best
The college search: How you can help your child
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
College prep glossary: College admissions from A to Z
Discover 10 ways to jump-start college planning: Help your child take the right steps, now
Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families
Choosing smart electives: Cultivating interests, strengths, and special talents
Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child
Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience
Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience
Partnership for Learning
Campus visit checklist: How to make the most of the trip
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
My College Options
Paying for College Workshop Toolkit
The Student Guide
College application calendar: Save the date for college
States' progress toward high school restructuring
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Creating options 2007: Financial aid for individuals with disabilities
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
A postsecondary resource guide for students with psychiatric disabilities
YMCA
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation graduate scholarship program
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care
One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Frequently asked questions regarding public service loan forgiveness
Loan forgivness for public service employees
Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Science and mathematics education indicators
Radio and Technology News Directors Association (RTNDA) Scholarships
Korean American Scholarship Foundation
United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Scholarships
Technical Minority Scholarship Program
Dates, deadlines, and details: A monthly activity calendar
I-STEM Resource Network
What every college access practitioner should know: About the needs of latino students and their families
Institute of Real Estate Management Foundation Minority Outreach Scholarship
Financial Literacy for You (FLY)
Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students
Scholarships for Minority Accounting Students
AMS Scholarships and Fellowships
Facts for education advocates
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Trends in college pricing 2008
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Measuring up 2008
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
Institutions with approved programs for veterans to receive educational benefits
A brief history of veterans' education benefits and their value
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
NACAC Prep for college calendar
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
SchoolGuides.org: Transition guides for students and their families
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Breakthrough Collaborative
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
A developmental perspective on workplace readiness: Preparing high school students for success
The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Family firsts: Reach for your dreams
Common Core State Standards Initiative
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae
How much are college students borrowing?
Creating a college-going culture for English-language learners
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study
Loan forgiveness for public service employees
The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools
Changing schools: A look at student mobility trends in Chicago public schools since 1995
Stronger department of education oversight needed to help ensure only eligible students receive federal student aid
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Financial education in TRIO programs
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
Federal student aid for incarcerated individuals (Spanish language version)
How Your Financial Aid Administrator Can Help You
Federal Student Aid: Loan Programs Factsheet
Federal Student Aid at a Glance
Academic Competitiveness Grant and National SMART Grant
Federal Student Aid: Grant Programs Factsheet
Making ends meet: The 2001–2002 student financial survey
The role of guidance in post-secondary planning
Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys
Student Financial Survey: Baseline Results (2001)
Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps
Canadian college student finances: Third edition (2005)
The 2003 Ontario College Applicant Survey
A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university
Does money matter? II
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Closing the access gap: Does information matter?
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Women and college savings: A survey on parental attitudes and practices
eCampusTours.com: Paying for College
Student loan forgiveness programs: An evolving workforce development tool
Access and persistence: Fall 2009
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Affordability of UNCF-member institutions
The bottom line: Ensuring that students and parents understand the net price of college
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
Trends in student financing of undergraduate education: Selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
Why 529 college savings plans favor the fortunate
Research support for school counseling
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Everybody ready for college
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
Why these students? Reasons to help undocumented students
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Prison vs. Princeton
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
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
Advocacy in action toolkit
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
The false promise of class-size reduction
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Critical choices: How colleges can help students and families make better decisions about private loans
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
HBCU distance learning 2010
Financial aid at California community colleges: Pell grants and fee waivers in 2003-04
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Proposed legislative changes to the post-9/11 GI Bill: Potential implications for veterans and colleges
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020
Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09
Why is college so expensive?
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF) Scholarship Resources
Postsecondary success
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Getting ready for high school (tips for parents from the American School Counselor Association)
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
Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Citizenship now! Information for undocumented students
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
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
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
What educators should learn from ER
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
Putting students ahead of private banks: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibily Act (SAFRA) myths-facts
A next social contract for the primary years of education
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Family factors and student outcomes
Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
CollegeFish.org
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)