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Author(s):	Hoffman, N
Title:	Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
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Date:	2005
Organization:	Jobs for the Future
Short Description:	Add and Subtract is a policy primer for states wishing to implement dual enrollment as a strategy for increasing college credentialing rates of underrepresented students.
Annotation:	Add and Subtract is a policy primer for states wishing to implement dual enrollment as a strategy for increasing college credentialing rates of underrepresented students. It provides an overview of dual enrollment and its rationale, guidelines for states to implement dual enrollment programs, and case studies of substantial dual enrollment programs.
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Bridging the gap between high school and college

How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006

Kids Count state-level data online

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

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

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative

Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

Bridge Partnership

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

Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school

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

Big Picture Company

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

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

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

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

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Education Trust, Inc

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

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

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

A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

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

Measuring up 2008

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

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

Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

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

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

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

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

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

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

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

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

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

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

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

I-STEM Resource Network

Early college high schools: Ben Davis University High School

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

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

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

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

Improving math performance

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

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

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

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

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

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

The future of public education in New Orleans

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

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

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

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

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

The role of mentoring in college access and success

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

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

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

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

Latino college completion: State series

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

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hearing on non-traditional students

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

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

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

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

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

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

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

Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

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

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

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

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

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

Is school funding fair? A national report card

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

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

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

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

College completion toolkit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

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

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

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

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

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

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

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

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

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

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

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

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

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

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

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

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

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

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

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

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

Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College

College InSight

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

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

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

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

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

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

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

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

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

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

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

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

Education Trust-West

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

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

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

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book

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

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

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

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

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

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

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

The achievement gap where you live

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

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

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

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

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

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

What educators should learn from ER

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

Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions

Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!

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

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

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

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

California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

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

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

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

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

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

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

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

Growing What Works Database

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

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

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

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

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

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

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

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

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

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

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

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

Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans

SREB Factbook on higher education

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

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

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

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

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

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

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

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

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

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

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

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

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

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

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

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

The condition of education in brief: 2005

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

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools

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

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

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

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

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

The hidden costs of community colleges

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

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

Mobility makers

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

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

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

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

Boosting college completion for a new economy

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

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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

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

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

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

Improving community college success

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

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

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

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

Starfish Initiative

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

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

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

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

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

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

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

More student success: A systemic solution

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

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

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

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

Access to success initiative

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

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

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

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

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

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

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

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

Retooling career and technical education

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

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

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

GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage

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

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

Science and mathematics education indicators

New England Journal of Higher Education

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

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

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

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

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

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

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

High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California

Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions

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

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

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

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

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

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

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

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

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

A descriptive study of urban school counseling

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

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

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

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

School relationships foster success for African American students

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

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

Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope

Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college

State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality

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

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

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

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

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

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

Latino youth and the pathway to college

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

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

Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions

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

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

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Academic pathways to access and student success

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

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

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

Educational needs index

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

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

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

National Association of Street Schools

Minority student achievement network

College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dispelling the myth - online

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

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

Catching the Dream

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

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

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

CPS: A leader in AP growth

Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access

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

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

National College Access Program Directory

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

African American students and U.S. high schools

What's wrong with guys?

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

Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

Student African American Brotherhood

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

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

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

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

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

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

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Ensuring academic success for English learners

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

Latino college completion in 50 states

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

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

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

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

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

Improving the odds for failing schools

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

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

State policy profiles for completion by design

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

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

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

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

Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations

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

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

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

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

Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs

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

Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis

Adult college completion toolkit

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

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

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

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

College Greenlight

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

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

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

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

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

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

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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

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The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

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

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

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

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2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

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California District Report Cards

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

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

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

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New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

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

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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

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Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit

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A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

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

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High school planner: Your guide to planning for college

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

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

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Washington Data and Reports

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

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

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Understanding college access for under-represented students: Trends, issues, and strategies

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Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

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

Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school

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

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

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

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Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move

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

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Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions

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

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

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

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

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

More on affordability: Response to Tom Mortenson

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

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

The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements

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Capturing the college potential of students from underserved populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college

Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality

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

Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education

Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success

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

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

Achievement in America

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

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

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

"Careers for the future" education program

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Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools

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

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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

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

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

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

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

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

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

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

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Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

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Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

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Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success

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

National Council of La Raza

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Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

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

Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices

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

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

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

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

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

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

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

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

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

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

National Coalition for College Completion

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

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

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

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

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

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

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

College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education

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

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

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Three policies to reduce time to degree

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

The Future Ready Project

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

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

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

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

Workforce development economics 101: State by state snapshots

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

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

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

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

Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

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

Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit

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

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

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

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

Education pays 2010

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

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

Buying college: What consumers need to know

Projections of education statistics to 2019

Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation

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

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

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

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

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

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

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

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

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

Transfer and articulation policies

I Need a Pencil.com

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

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

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

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

Making high school students into "college material"

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

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

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

The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states

And after high school? A pan-Canadian study of grade 12 students in French-language schools in minority settings: Educational aspirations and plans to pursue a career in their home regions -- Executive Summary

Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

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

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

College readiness and high school-to-college success

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

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

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

Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Financial education in TRIO programs

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

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

La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009

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

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

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

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk

Family factors and student outcomes

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

15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

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

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

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

Center on Education and the Workforce

Eight components of college and career readiness counseling

2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

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

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

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

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

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

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

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

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