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Author(s):Alliance for Excellent Education
Title:Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability
Source:http://www.all4ed.org/files/ESA_GradRateAcct.pdf
Date:2008
Organization:Alliance for Excellent Education
Short Description:This report emphasizes the importance of including measurement of graduation rates in school accountability systems, summarizes such shortcomings in the No Child Left Behind Act, and calls on policymakers to take action on four specific recommendations designed to address the unintended consequences of weak graduation rate accountability.
Annotation:This report emphasizes the importance of including measurement of graduation rates in school accountability systems, summarizes such shortcomings in the No Child Left Behind Act, and calls on policymakers to take action on four specific recommendations designed to address the unintended consequences of weak graduation rate accountability.
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The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Can middle school reform increase high school graduation rates?
Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information
Insuring college failure risk
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Project U-turn
Education Bill Tracking Database
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
The numbers we need: Bringing balanced scorecards to education data
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET): Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007
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
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act
US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Background on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Deciding on postsecondary education
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
Dropouts
Gateway to College
Good Shepherd Services
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Indiana by the numbers
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Chasing the high school graduation rate: Getting the data we need and using it right
College tools for schools
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
The consequences of dropping out of high school: Joblessness and jailing for high school dropouts and the high cost for taxpayers
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Gallup student poll national report
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Meeting the invention challenge
Summer Search
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
National dropout prevention center for students with disabilities
The Kalamazoo Promise
The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
What every college access practitioner should know: About the importance of commitment
State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Literacy instruction in the content areas: Getting to the core of middle and high school improvement
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Early intervention program and college partnerships
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
State education reforms – Standards, assessment, and accountability
Latinos in secondary education
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
A voice from the middle
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Knocking at the college door: California state report
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Raising the compulsory school attendance age: The case for reform
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
EPAS®: A system that works
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school
Indiana college completion rates 2007
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Telling the whole truth (or not) about high school graduation rates
Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Learning to earn
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations
Indiana public school student population information
High school graduation rankings and rates for fifty states 2002
Measuring up 2004
Locating the dropout crisis: Which high schools produce the nation’s dropouts? Where are they located? Who attends them
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers
The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the common core of data: School years 2001-02 and 2002-03
The real truth about low graduation rates: An evidence-based commentary
Indiana project on academic success
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured
Schools to watch
Middle Start
Talent Development High Schools
Dropout rates in the United States: 2004
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
High Tech High Foundation
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
The nation's dropout crisis: Indiana's tool-box to help students succeed
The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
Alliance for excellent education: Every child a graduate
Foundation for excellent schools
Project GRAD
Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth
Education commission of the states: Online high school policy database
Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Implementing graduation counts: State progress to date
State of college admission 2007
The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the Common Core of Data: School years 2002-03 and 2003-04
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
The economic case for higher education
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Teaching in a learner-centered environment powered by digital learning
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
California District Report Cards
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
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
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
On the road to success
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Civic engagement through digital citizenship: Engaging youth in active, participatory citizenship
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
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
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks

 

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