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Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

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

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

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

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

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

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

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

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

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

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Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

The national articulation and transfer network

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

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

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

Transforming education in America

The economic value of opportunity youth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why access matters: The community college student body

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

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

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

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

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

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

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

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

The undereducated American

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

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

The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda

The hidden costs of community colleges

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

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

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

On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

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

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

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

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

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

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

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

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

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

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

"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

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

Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students

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

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

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

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

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

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

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships

The role of mentoring in college access and success

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

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

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

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

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

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

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

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

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

How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college

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

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

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

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

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

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

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

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

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

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

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

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

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

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

On the road to success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

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

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?

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

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges

Boosting postsecondary education performance

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

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

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

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

Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults

Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

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

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

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

Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community

Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006

Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs

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

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

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

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

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

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

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys

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

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

National Coalition for College Completion

Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students

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

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

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

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

Latino college completion: Florida

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

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

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

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

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

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

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

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

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

Engaging students, challenging the odds

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

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

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

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

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

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

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

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

Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

College InSight

Growing What Works Database

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

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

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

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

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

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions

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

Summer Search

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

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

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

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

Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)

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

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

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

Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Breaking through: Factsheet

The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance

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

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

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

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

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

What works for Latino students

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

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

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

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

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

College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over

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

Access to success initiative

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

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

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

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

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

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Community college student survey

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

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

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

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

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

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

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

Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions

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

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

The College Match Program

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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

Latino college completion: California

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

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

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

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

One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges

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

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

Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness

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

The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?

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

Ensuring success for returning veterans

The breaking through practice guide

Community College 2.0

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

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

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees

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

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

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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

From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states

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

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

Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well

Healthcare

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

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

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

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

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

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

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

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive

Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan

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

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

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

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

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

Common measures for college access and success

Improving the odds for failing schools

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

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

State policy profiles for completion by design

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

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

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

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

Leveraging data for college completion

Mobility makers

Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers

The economic case for higher education

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

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

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

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals

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

The role of two-year institutions in four-year success

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

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce

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

National Center for Academic Transformation

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

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

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

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

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

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

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

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

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

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

Center on Education and the Workforce

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

Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?

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

Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?

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

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

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

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

Three policies to reduce time to degree

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

Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability

An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations

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

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

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

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

Improving community college success

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Center for Student Opportunity

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Data sources for improving college access and success

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

College success programs

Postsecondary education opportunity

Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve

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

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

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

The Breakthrough High School project

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Nontraditional undergraduates

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

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

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

New England Journal of Higher Education

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

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

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

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

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Who graduates in California?

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

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

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

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

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

Diverse issues in higher education

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

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

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

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

Measuring up 2008

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

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

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

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

American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

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

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

Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

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

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

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

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

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

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

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

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

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

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

Adult college completion toolkit

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

Deciding on postsecondary education

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

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 women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams

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

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

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

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

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

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

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

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

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Field guide for improving student success

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions

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

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

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

Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative

Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America

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

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

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

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

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

The effects of public support on college attainment

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

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Gateway to College

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

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

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

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

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

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

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

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

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

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

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

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

College access and success state data

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

The real technology challenge

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

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

Economic mobility project

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

College For Every Student

The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction

Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through

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

Project Complete

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

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

Collegiate learning assessement project

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

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

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

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

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

College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

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

Preparing Oklahoma students for the future

Educational opportunity for all?

Student African American Brotherhood

Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

Action plan: Educators/Policymakers

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

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

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States

Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges

Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges

Benchmarks: Indicators of effective educational practice

School Redesign Network

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

Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002

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

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

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

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

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

National college access network

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

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

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

School relationships foster success for African American students

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

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

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

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

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

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

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

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

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

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

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

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

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

How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

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

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

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

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

The degree qualifications profile

National Youth Employment Coalition

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

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

Everybody ready for college

College completion toolkit

Adult College Completion Network

How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study

Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap

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

Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)

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Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

Project WIn-Win

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

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

Latino college completion: Texas

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand

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

Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter

Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities

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

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

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Education pays 2010

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

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

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

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

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

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Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

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

Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students

Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions

Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

The Condition of Education 2010

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

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

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

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

An examination of the information technology job market

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

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

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

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

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Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

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Operation College Promise

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

What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

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

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

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

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

The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce

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

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

Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

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

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

AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"

Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)

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Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

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

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

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

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

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts

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

What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"

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

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

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Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

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

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

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

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

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

Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership

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

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

Grantmakers for Education

Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference

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

Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

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

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

Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series

Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education

Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development

HBCU distance learning 2010

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

Understanding the working college student

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

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

Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)

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

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

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

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

Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students

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

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

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

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

Scaling community college interventions

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

The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice

High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges

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

National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

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

Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs

Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series

Buying college: What consumers need to know

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

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

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

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

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

Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know

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

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

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

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

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

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

Adult education participation in 2004-05

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

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

Just for the kids

College learning for the new global century

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

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

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

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

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

Education and incarceration

Excelencia in education

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention

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

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

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

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

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

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

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

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

Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges

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

College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds

Gender gap grows

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

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

Lumina Foundation for Education

They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

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

Educational needs index

Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

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

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

Postsecondary Access and Success

Policies to promote adult education and postsecondary alignment

Opportunity in America: The role of education

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

Student loans and public accountability

Higher education accountability for student learning

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

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

College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families

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

Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

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

EPAS®: A system that works

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

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

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

College of Adult and Professional Studies

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

The benefits of racial/ethnic student groups: A psychologist explains

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

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

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

Creating a welcoming campus climate

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

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

Adult learners: A data and policy perspective

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022

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

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students

Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs

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

McNair scholar handbook

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

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Economic mobility of black and white families

Enrollment status and outcomes

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

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

Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success

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

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

Community colleges under stress

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

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students

Language rights: An integration agenda for immigrant communities

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

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

Voice of adult learners united to educate (VALUE)

The Fortune Society: Prisoner Re-entry

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

The future of middle-skill jobs

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

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

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners

Flexible learning options for adult students

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

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

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

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

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed

Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience

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

Global Skills for Global Completion

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Time to Completion Web Site

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

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

Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007

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

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

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

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

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college

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

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

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

College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

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

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

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

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

SREB Factbook on higher education

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

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

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

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors

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

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

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

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

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

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers

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

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

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

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

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

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

Access to Learning

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

Developmental Education Toolkit

Opportunity.gov

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

Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions

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

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

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

Making high school students into "college material"

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Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

IPEDS Data Center

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

The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges

What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

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

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

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

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

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

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

Pathways to College Network

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

Financial education in TRIO programs

Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses

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

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

College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century

FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success

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

Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation

Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success

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

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

Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

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

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

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

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

Federal access policies and higher education for working adults

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students

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

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

College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education

Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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

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

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

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

Economic state of young America

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

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

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

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

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

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

Workers need training, not tough talk

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

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

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

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

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

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

The state of American manhood

Anderson University: ADVANCE

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

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

Early intervention program and college partnerships

Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution

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

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Windows on achievement and inequality

More student success: A systemic solution

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

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Participation trends and patterns in adult education: 1991 to 1999

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

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

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

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Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems

Enacting diverse learning environments: Improving the climate for racial/ethnic diversity in higher education

Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

Leading by example

Bridge program planning guide

Educational attainment in the United States: 2005

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

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

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

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

Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today

Differential grading standards among high schools

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

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

Diversity workshops: Gender equity--a closer look

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

Study of institutional research capacity and use of data at community colleges

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

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

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

Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Colorado Reports

Learning in a new key

The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

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

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity

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

Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement

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

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

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

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

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

Accelerated developmental education project

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

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

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

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Achieve, Inc.

Education Trust, Inc

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

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

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

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

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children

American student achievement institute

Access to postsecondary education for undocumented students

Independent undergraduates: 1999-2000

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

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

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

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

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

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

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

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future

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

First generation college students: A literature review

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

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

Bridge Partnership

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

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity

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

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

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

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

Doors of opportunity opening or closing: We are using tax credits and tuition discounts to appease middle-class voters instead of expanding educational opportunity

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

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

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

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

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

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

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

Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences

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

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03

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

Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

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

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables

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

Latino college completion: State series

Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges

Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

The condition of education 2011

Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education

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

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

Student success in higher education

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

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

The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

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

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

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

The case for change in college admissions

The Future Ready Project

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

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

Gender inequalities in education

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

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

If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement

A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

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

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

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

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

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

CollegeMeasures.org

The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference

Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners

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

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

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

Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma

A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee

Closing the gap between high school and college

When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

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

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

College for all?

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

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

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

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

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

A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

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

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

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

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

A next social contract for the primary years of education

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

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

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

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

5 Education factors in focus

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

2012 SREB Annual Report

Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States

Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries

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

Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college

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

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

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

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

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

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

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

Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009

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

Grapevine, Fiscal Year 2011-12

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

Cohort default rates in context

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Assets & opportunity scorecard

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

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

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

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

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways

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

The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

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

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

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

Information constraints and financial aid policy

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

Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect

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

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

Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

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

National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education

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

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

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

Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions

Assuring academic quality in the 21st century: Self-regulation in a new era

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

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

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions

America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2012

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

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

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

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education

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

Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018

A paradox of education progress

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

Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

The National Indian Education Study

The College Completion Agenda

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

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

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

YourWordsToday.org

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning

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

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

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

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

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

Central Indiana Talent Alliance

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits

The impact of teacher experience

The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making

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

Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project

Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010

Developmental education in community colleges

Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education

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

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

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

ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

A guide for African-American parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

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

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

Accomodating student veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder: Tips for campus faculty and staff

Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04

Boosting college completion for a new economy

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

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

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

The false promise of class-size reduction

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

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

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

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

Trends in student aid 2011

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

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

Pat Tillman Foundation

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

The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process

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

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

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

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

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

Projections of education statistics to 2019

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009

Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree

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

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

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children

Ensuring academic success for English learners

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Access and participation profiles

Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us

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

Correctional education facts

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

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability

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

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

Miles to go: Louisiana

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

Diversity, school, family, and community connections

What keeps children in foster care from succeeding in school? Views of early adolescents and the adults in their lives

Promoting educational success for young people in foster care

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

Student athletes with learning disabilities: A model for effective supports

Middle Start

Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education

Education and the economy: An indicators report

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

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

The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment

Connecting the dots: Multifaceted analyses of the relationships between student engagement results from the NSSE, and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement

Measuring up 2006

Achieving the dream: Community colleges count

Does public funding for higher education matter?

The art of student retention

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

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

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources

Minority student retention and academic achievement in community colleges

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage

The adult learning gap: Why states need to change their policies toward adult learners

Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education

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

Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success

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

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

Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges

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

Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability

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

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

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

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

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

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

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Student Retention.org

Cal-SOAP

National Urban League: Campaign for African American Achievement

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

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

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

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

Does diversity make a difference? Three research studies on diversity in college classrooms

Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers

National inventory of academic pathways

Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006

College admission for homeschoolers

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices

Creating a college-going culture guide

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions

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

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

New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)

Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life

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

Why rural matters 2007: The realities of rural education growth

Framing new terrain: Older adults & higher education

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

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

Retooling career and technical education

A call to action: Why America must innovate

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

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

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Distance learning and adults with disabilities

Students with disabilities and access to community college: Continuing issues and new directions

Three-year graduation rates for associate students

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA

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

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

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

Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas

Knowhow2go.org

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

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

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

Incorporating ACT scores into your statewide assessment

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

Using posttesting to show the effectiveness of developmental/remedial college courses

Alternatives to the grade point average as measures of academic achievement in college

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

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

Opening Doors project publications

UA Adult Focus

Setting the stage: Adults in Higher Education

Literacy behind bars: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy prison survey

A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions

2003 Graduation rates for 4-year and 2-year Title IV degree granting institutions by sector, race, and gender

Accelerated learning for all

Returning to our roots: Student access

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

Latinos in graduate education

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

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

Where are the Black scientists?

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay

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

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

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

The context of "choice" in college pathways

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Learning to enhance campus climate and diversity

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

Calumet College of St. Joseph: Adult Undergraduate Accelerated Programs

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

Condition of education 2008

I-STEM Resource Network

Indiana University: Adult Student Resources

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

Remedial and developmental education at Ivy Tech

Indiana college success coalition

Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes

Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing

Low-income students and college success: More than money

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

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

How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?

A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes

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

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

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

Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges

Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community

Orphan Foundation of America

Racial disparities and the new federalism

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

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

Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer

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

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

Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care

Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives

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

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

Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

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

Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce

The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners

Adult Basic Education to Community Colleges Transitions Symposium Proceedings Report

Skills2Compete

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

Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education

Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Students earning zero credits

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

The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital

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

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

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

Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run

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

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

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

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

Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!

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

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

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

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

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

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

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

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

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

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

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

Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

ACE Online Information Center

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

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

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

Diversifying the STEM pipeline: The model replication institutions program

Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education

Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)

Rising by Degrees

Educational Policy Improvement Center

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

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

Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans

Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned

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

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

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

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

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

Transparency by design

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

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

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

Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students

The state of learning disabilities 2009

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

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Education Equality Project

Campaign for High School Equity

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

Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?

College Greenlight

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

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

Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale

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

Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context

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

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

National Postsecondary Education Cooperative

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

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

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

Education watch 2009

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

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

Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans

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

Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education

The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

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

High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California

Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education

Progress and gaps in college preparation policy

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

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

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

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

College choices for adults: Transparency by design

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

The President's Forum

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

Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

Funding and access issues in public higher education: A community college perspective

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

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

The value of value-added data

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

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: Annotated bibliography

A cost estimate of standards-based remediation in a community college developmental education program

Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

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

A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials

2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions

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

The nature of innovation in the community college

Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials

Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

Family factors and student outcomes

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

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

Participating Achieving the Dream Colleges

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

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

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

Schools, skills, and synapses

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

Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within

Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges

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

Black Alliance for Educational Options

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007

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

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

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

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

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

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

The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality

Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

The Workforce Alliance

I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training

Adult Literacy Education In Immigrant Communities: Identifying Policy and Program Priorities for Helping Newcomers Learn English

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

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

Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices

Investing in lasting change: Productivity and U.S. higher education

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

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

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

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

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

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

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

Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

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

Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability

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

Youth with disabilities in the foster care system: Barriers to success and proposed policy solutions

The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report

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

National Center for Learning Disabilities

Driving forces on the road to re-entry

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

Indiana University Kokomo: Project Complete

Goshen College: Degree-completion programs

University of Indianapolis: School for Adult Learning

Oakland City University: School of Adult and Extended Learning

Marian College: Marian's Adult Programs (MAP)

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

Federal Education Budget Project

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships

All Kinds of Minds

The minds of boys

The male achievement gap in Indiana

Strategic directions in Indiana education

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

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

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

(Addendum to) Looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 integration

How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society

Women on the rise

Latinos in undergraduate education

The knowledge we need about race and racism

How diversity affects teaching and learning

Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college

Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students

Reconsidering the diversity rationale

Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds

Findings and trends Fall 1990 - Fall 2000

Indiana State Profile

Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

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

Forging new partnerships: Adult and developmental education in community colleges

What's wrong with guys?

Recruiting and retaining adult students

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

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

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

What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?

What kind of test preparation is best?

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

Developing the STEM education pipeline

The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test

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

Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs

Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer

College guide for students with disabilities

12 Ways adult students can pay for college

The nation's report card: Civics 2006

The nation's report card: U.S. history 2006

Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

National and state data

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2006

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

Latino students and U.S. high schools

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

Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs

In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity

Community college enrollment

Earnings by attainment

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

Washington Data and Reports

Dream it! Do it!

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

First ask, then listen: How to get your students to help you teach them better

Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system

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

The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools

Understanding NAEP: Inside the nation's education report card

The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families

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

Education and economic competitiveness

Degree attainment

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults

Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04

USA Funds

National Council for Community and Education Partnerships

Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library

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

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

Foundation for excellent schools

Puente Project

Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

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

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

The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad

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

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

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

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

From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth

The policy of choice: Expanding student options in higher education

Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success

A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access

Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy

Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend

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

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

Access to community college for undocumented immigrants: A guide for state policy makers

Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth

Adult persistence and success in higher education: A brief annotated bibliography of online resources

Annotated bibliography of minority achievement

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

College Results Online

African American achievement in America

Latino achievement in America

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

In state tuition for undocumented immigrants

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

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

Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students

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

Education watch online

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

Bachelor's degrees awarded to men and women in Indiana 1970 to 2004

Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

Access to the Baccalaureate initiative: A clear path to college

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

Improving access to the baccalaureate

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

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

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

National College Access Program Directory

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

American Indian higher education consortium

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

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

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

Reaching parents: The role of Latino parents in their children's education

Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act

Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

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

Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity

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

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

The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college

After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action

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

Catching the Dream

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship

Hispanic Scholarship Fund

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

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

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

A new way on school integration

Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

Research support for school counseling

What new faculty need to know about assessment

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment: Providing evidence of student learning: A transparency framework

Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes

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

Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing

La Plaza

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

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

7th Annual AP report to the nation

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

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

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

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

A detection model of college withdrawal

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

Presidential perspectives: The 2011 Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university presidents

How college pricing undermines financial aid

Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty

Special education in high school redesign

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

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

The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream

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

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

Ramp-up to Readiness

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

Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement

Meritocracy: The great American myth? A look at gatekeeping in higher education

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

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

Women Employed

Impacting college-going and completion rates in your community: Taking a systems approach

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

Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels

Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators

Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved

Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student

Ten facts about the recovery

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

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

The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings

Think College Indiana!

Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children

HSIs 2009-10

The digital revolution and higher education: College presidents, public differ on value of online education

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

Expanded measures of school performance

Is school funding fair? A national report card

The condition of education in brief: 2005

Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment

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

Children of immigrants: 2008 state trends update

Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis

Community college and high school partnerships

The Campus Computing Project

Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college

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

What works in student retention 2010

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools

Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges

2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

What educators should learn from ER

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

Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

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

Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education

Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students

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

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

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

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes (Pathways to College Network Issue Brief)

Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Supporting first-generation college students through classroom-based practices

How America pays for college 2012

Online college students 2012: Comprehensive data on demands and preferences

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

Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

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

Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations

Repository of resources for undocumented students

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

A disruptive look at competency-based education: How the innovative use of technology will transform the college experience

What is "career ready"?

MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries

Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools

Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

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

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

Snapshot report: Mobility

Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment

America's youth: Transitions to adulthood

SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report

12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012

Western Policy Exchanges

Measuring efficiency in the community college sector

Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform

Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?

ACE Toolkit for veteran friendly institutions

College completion: Who graduates from college, who doesn't and why it matters

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

An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students

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

2012 National survey of school counselors

Innovation in higher education: Public opinion survey results

College and career development organizer

View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)

STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students

Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis

Undergraduate teaching faculty: The 2010-11 HERI faculty survey

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

Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action