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

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Latino college completion: California

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

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012

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

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

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

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

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

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

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

Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)

The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma

Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges

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

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Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students

Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book

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Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence

A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners

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

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

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

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

2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population

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

Education Trust-West

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

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

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

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

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

Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

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

Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

Latino college completion in 50 states

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

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education

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

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

Latino college completion: Texas

Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

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

The College Match Program

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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

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

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

From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V

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

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

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

Engaging students, challenging the odds

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Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

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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

Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education

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

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A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools

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

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

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

Education watch online

State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

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

Cal-SOAP

Measuring up 2004

Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Education Trust, Inc

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

College For Every Student

Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

The future of public education in New Orleans

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

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

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

Windows on achievement and inequality

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

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

Deciding on postsecondary education

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

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

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

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States

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

Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

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

Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps

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

California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)

America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends

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

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Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt

Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes

Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children

The value of value-added data

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

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

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

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

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

Projections of education statistics to 2018

Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students

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Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities

A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools

Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals

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

Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy

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

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio

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

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

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

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

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)

The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement

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

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

Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)

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

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

College InSight

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

Complete College America

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Indiana by the numbers

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

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

College access and success state data

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

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

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

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

Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment

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

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

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

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

Education Equality Project

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

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools

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

Early intervention program and college partnerships

McNair scholar handbook

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

Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

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

The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students

Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students

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

Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males

The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys

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

A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities

High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch

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Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison

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Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

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Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment

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High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

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Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future

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Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

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

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

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

Access to success initiative

Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007

Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future

Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy

Retooling career and technical education

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

Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools

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

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

Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans

Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist

The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

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

Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy

Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities

States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

What works for Latino students

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

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

Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts

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

Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

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

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students

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

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

Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer

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

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

Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color

Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree

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

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

A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Latino college completion: Florida

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

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

Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college

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

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

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

A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area

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

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

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

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

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

The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications

Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer

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

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

Advocacy in action toolkit

Projections of education statistics to 2019

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

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

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

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

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

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

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

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

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

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

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

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

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

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion

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

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

Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland

The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue

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

Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020

Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion

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

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

Postsecondary success

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

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

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08

Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools

Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success

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

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

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

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

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

The impact of teacher experience

Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states

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

Is school funding fair? A national report card

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

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

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

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

Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)

Closing the expectations gap 2011

Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Transforming education in America

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

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

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

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

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

Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

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

State policy profiles for completion by design

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

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

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity

Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students

The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations

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

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

Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys

The condition of education 2011

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

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09

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

Improving community college success

The Future Ready Project

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

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

Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?

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

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

Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training

The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain

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

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

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010

The nation's report card: Science 2011

Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

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

Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

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

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

African American students and U.S. high schools

Educational attainment in the United States: 2005

Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Just for the kids

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

Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

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

Education and incarceration

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

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

Ensuring academic success for English learners

Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience

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

YMCA

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game

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

Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement

Quality counts 2008

The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders

Indiana's 2006 graduation rate

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

Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states

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

Indian students and college preparation

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

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

Forum guide to education indicators

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

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

Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males

American student achievement institute

Gender gap grows

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

The graduation gap: Using promoting power to examine the number and characteristics of high schools with high and low graduation rates in the nation and in each state

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report

Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students

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

African American achievement in America

Latino achievement in America

Indiana higher education opportunity data book

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

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

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

Center for Law and Social Policy

Science and mathematics education indicators

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

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

Strategic directions in Indiana education

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

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

Federal Education Budget Project

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

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

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

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

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

Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

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

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

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

Economic mobility project

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

Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs

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

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

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

Changes in Graduation Rates by State (Progress and Challenge Indexes)

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

Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

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

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

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

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

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

State future workforce gap summaries

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates

Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A

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

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: Teacher effectiveness

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college

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

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

Project U-turn

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

A next social contract for the primary years of education

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition

Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Growing What Works Database

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

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

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992-2022 (State Profiles)

Educational Policy Improvement Center

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature

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

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams

Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams

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

Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support

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

Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)

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 federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation

Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out

Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress

Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)

College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to 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

Insuring college failure risk

Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different

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

Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?

The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college

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

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

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

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

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

Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities

A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010

High school remediation

Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Mind the (other) gap: State profiles

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts

Achievement gap patterns of grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students in reading and mathematics

Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

Family factors and student outcomes

Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field

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

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

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

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Facts for education advocates

Community colleges under stress

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)

Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005

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

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students

Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success

Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice

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

The future of middle-skill jobs

Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care

Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?

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

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature

Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes

The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

Racial disparities and the new federalism

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

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

State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities

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

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

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

I-STEM Resource Network

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents

Condition of education 2008

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

ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely

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

First generation college students: A literature review

School relationships foster success for African American students

Achievement in America

Our impoverished view of education reform

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success

The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve

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

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

Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage

An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace

Losing our future: How minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card

Educational attainment of the population 25 years and over, by state

Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences

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

Latino youth and the pathway to college

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

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

One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children

Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Implementing graduation counts: State progress to date

Measuring up 2006

Projections of education statistics to 2015

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

American Indian student achievement in Montana public schools: Features of the achievement gap and policy prescriptions

Dropout rates in the United States: 2004

Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later

The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students

Stats Indiana

Talent Development High Schools

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card

Dispelling the myth - online

Catching the Dream

Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

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

Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006

Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success

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

Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system

Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine

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

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

Earnings by attainment

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement

High school dropouts in America

School Redesign Network

Improving math performance

Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions

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

Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample

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

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

Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education

Correctional education facts

Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates

The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law

Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation

The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools

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

A new way on school integration

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

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

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

No county left behind: The persistence of educational deprivation in Indiana

Latino students and U.S. high schools

The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

Indiana State Profile

The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics

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

Educational Attainment in the United States 2006

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements

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Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

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

State high school exit exams: A policy in transition

The hidden costs of community colleges

American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

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

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

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

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

Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Latino college completion: State series

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

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

A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

8th Annual AP report to the nation

Assets & opportunity scorecard

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

On the road to success

Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts

Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

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

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

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

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

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

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

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

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

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states

Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

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

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children

Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables

Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants

Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule

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

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

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future

Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?

Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos

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

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

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

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

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

Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation

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

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems

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

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

Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08

Which achievement gap?

Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states

A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy

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

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

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs

Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

The College Completion Agenda

ED Data Express

A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force

Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles

Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers

Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007

The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

Education pays 2010

Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth

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

Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice

Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies

The Condition of Education 2010

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

Center on Education and the Workforce

The breaking through practice guide

State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation

Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative

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

Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

The National Indian Education Study

Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity

Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level

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

Afterschool Alliance

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community

Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools

Closing the gap between high school and college

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

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

Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership

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

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success

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

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

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

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

College completion toolkit

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states

Research support for school counseling

America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

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

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams

Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

State and local policy for reconnecting youth

Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project

Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce

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

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

Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures

Hearing on non-traditional students

Mobility makers

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

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

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

The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals

Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly

Western Policy Exchanges

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

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Boosting postsecondary education performance

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

Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district

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

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda

Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?

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

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions

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

Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort

The road to high-quality early education

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

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

A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

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

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students

Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons

What's it worth: The economic value of college majors

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments

Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves

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

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth

2011 Kids count data book: State profiles of child well-being:

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

Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

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

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)

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

Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline

Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate

Early warning indicator systems

Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

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

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

Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts

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

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

Adult college completion toolkit

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

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

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

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

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

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers

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

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education

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

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

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

Accelerated learning for all

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

Leading by example

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

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

State education reforms – Standards, assessment, and accountability

Expanding learning time in high schools

Latinos in graduate education

Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni

State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school

Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?

Rescuing Brown v. Board of Education: Profiles of twelve school districts pursuing socioeconomic school integration

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

Understanding high school graduation rates (updated): National and state-specific information

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

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

What's wrong with guys?

A voice from the middle

Digest of Education Statistics

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

Recent STEM initiatives

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

Graduation rates in Indiana: An analysis of various methods of caluculating graduation rates

Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices

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

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

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

New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

Raising the compulsory school attendance age: The case for reform

What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges

Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence

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

State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data

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

Helping Teens Succeed

Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices

State of college readiness for Latino students

Why rural matters 2007: The realities of rural education growth

Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities

Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

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

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students

Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools

Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes

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

Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool

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

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

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

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Voices in urban education

Jonathan Kozol interview transcript: Source material for "Segregation and its Calamitous Effects, America's "Apartheid" Schools"

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology

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

Diversity, school, family, and community connections

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students

Center for Student Opportunity

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

Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Education and the economy: An indicators report

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

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

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

Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04

OECD Programme for international student assessment

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

State of college admission 2007

User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators

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

Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid

Institutional graduation rate for 1985 entering cohorts

Improving education outcomes for foster youth: The Guardian Scholars Project Year 1

Foundation for excellent schools

Project GRAD

Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth

Education commission of the states: Online high school policy database

Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform

Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college

As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality

The Progress of education reform: Hispanic achievement

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

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program

Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system

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

A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

Ranking of high school to college rates for 50 states

What’s wrong with the guys

How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education

High school graduation rankings and rates for fifty states 2002

Locating the dropout crisis: Which high schools produce the nation’s dropouts? Where are they located? Who attends them

Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions

College success programs

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

Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes

State data systems and privacy concerns: Strategies for balancing public interests

Beyond percentage plans: The challenge of equal opportunity in higher education

Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success

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

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the common core of data: School years 2001-02 and 2002-03

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth

A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars

Postsecondary education opportunity

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

Projections of education statistics to 2014

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

Getting honest about grad rates: How states play the numbers and students lose

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

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

Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Diverse issues in higher education

Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education

School funding's tragic flaw

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

What every college access practitioner should know about: The early college high school initiative – Indiana plans for the early college high school for science and technologies

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

The education success program

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

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

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

The state of American manhood

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance

For every 100 girls...

More student success: A systemic solution

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

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

Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability

The Kalamazoo Promise

The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color

Race, schools, and neighborhoods: Reducing barriers to achievement

Education Commission of the States: Research studies database

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

Enrollment status and outcomes

Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers

Economic mobility of black and white families

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

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

Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems

Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas

Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools

Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight

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

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover

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

The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance

Economic state of young America

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

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

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

The future workforce of Indiana

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

A descriptive study of urban school counseling

Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates

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

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

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?

How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts

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

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

Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?

Gold Star School Counseling

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission

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

The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education

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

The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood

10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts

Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

The connection between health and high school dropout

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

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005

Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college

High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study

Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs

Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools

Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success

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

Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success

Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources

Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers

The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

Meeting the invention challenge

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

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison

Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

Center for data-driven reform in education (CDDRE)

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

Learning Point Associates: Data for school improvement

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

The state of learning disabilities 2009

How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth

How much are college students borrowing?

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

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

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

Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships

Rising by Degrees

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

ACE Online Information Center

Still a freshman: Examining the prevalence and characteristics of ninth-grade retention across six states

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools

Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada

Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement

What are examples of state legislation focused on high school dropout prevention?

How does extended learning time impact student achivement?

Children of Immigrants Data Tool

End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments

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

A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005

New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams

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

Mini-digest of education statistics, 2009

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

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

Digest of Education Statistics, 2009

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Financial education in TRIO programs

The Center for Public Education

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success

Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement

Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

Children's Defense Fund State Factsheets

The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution

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

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college

Good Shepherd Services

YouthBuild USA

Commonwealth Corporation

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

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2006

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

Dropout prevention practice guide

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes

Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't

Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)

Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance

National School Lunch Program: State-level data FFY1989 to FFY2008

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it

The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy

Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

Effective instruction: An inconspicuous strategy for dropout prevention

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

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures

Middle-class schools for all

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

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access

Ivy Tech programs: Fast track to college and double up for college

Indiana college success coalition

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

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

New England Journal of Higher Education

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

The minds of boys

Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Strengthening state policies to increase the education and skills of low-wage workers

Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers

Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule

Fixing No Child Left Behind

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

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?

Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success

State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer

Achieving diversity: Race neutral alternatives in American education

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004

One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach

How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04

The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Rural education at a glance

State higher education finance: FY 2004

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

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

Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

High school graduation, completion, and dropout indicators: A primer and catalog

Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

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

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2004

Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

Learning to earn

State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality

Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom

When it comes to school, girls rule

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

Indiana public school student population information

Data sources for improving college access and success

Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity

Where have all the students gone

The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act

All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps

The early college high school: The initiative at a glance

Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States

The education pipeline in the U.S., 1970-2000

High school graduation rates, college continuation rates, and chance for college by state: 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

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

College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it

Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students

The American diploma project: Overview of research

Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement

Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates

Helping children move from bad schools to good ones

Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004

Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth

User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 1: Review of current and proposed graduation indicators

Minority student achievement network

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

Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Smart boys, bad grades

Bridge Partnership

Residence and migration for college freshmen for Indiana

Indiana educational attainment of the population 25 years and over: 1940 to 2000

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards

Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems

Peak experiences

CPS: A leader in AP growth

Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school

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

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

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

The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery

An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research

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

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

Education watch 2006 state summary reports

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

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

Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability

The changing landscape of American public education: New students, new schools

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today

Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges

Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact

Center for native education

Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

Focus on dropout factories: Associated press article spotlights low-performing high schools, draws criticism from many school officials

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

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

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

2007 Kids Count Data Book

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families

Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care

Reaching all children? Understanding early care and education participation among immigrant families

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

Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005

Postsecondary Access and Success

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

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over

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

Community college enrollment

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2006

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

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college

Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools

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

How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

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

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

Three-year graduation rates for associate students

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

Preparing Oklahoma students for the future

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

Indiana college completion rates 2007

A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students

2003 Graduation rates for 4-year and 2-year Title IV degree granting institutions by sector, race, and gender

Literacy behind bars: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy prison survey

Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds

Returning to our roots: Student access

Educational opportunity for all?

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

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

Smart class-size policies for lean times

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

The economic case for higher education

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

What is "career ready"?

Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations

Healthcare

Digest of Education Statistics 2011

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

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce

2012 SREB Annual Report

Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals

Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts

Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce

Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context

Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

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

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

Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter

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

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

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

High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges

Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved

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

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

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates

The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

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

Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy

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

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

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

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges

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

Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative

How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture

America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits

The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011

On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)

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

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

National Coalition for College Completion

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)

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

Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

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

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states

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

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

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

AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"

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

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?

Science and engineering indicators 2012

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

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

Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states

What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

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

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

Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030

Leveraging data for college completion

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

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

Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers

STEM: State reports and state level analysis

Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

The degree qualifications profile

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

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

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

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

The effects of grade retention on high school completion

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

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

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

Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy

Steps taken on the path forward

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

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

Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?

Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?

Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?

Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

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

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit

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

California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference

Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?

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

Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2008

Developmental education in community colleges

Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education

Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project

Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college

Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series

Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations

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

When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards

"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

No time to delay: Delivering the statewide data systems California's students deserve

Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document

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

The worst of times: Children in extreme poverty in the South and nation

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

A paradox of education progress

Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis

Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials

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

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

Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it

Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees

America's private public schools