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Richburg-Hayes, L.
Title:
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
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http://www.mdrc.org/publications/472/full.pdf
Date:
2008
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MDRC
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While there is compelling evidence that additional years of schooling and advanced education credentials are associated with higher earnings, evaluations of education and basic skills training programs have yielded mixed results concerning their ability to increase earnings among low-income populations. This paper summarizes what is known from evaluations about the effectiveness of education acquisition to advance the earnings and careers of low-wage workers. The paper then discusses two popular community college strategies intended to increase academic success among this population: enhanced student services and performance-based scholarships.
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Employment has long been held to be an important deterrent against poverty, and work is a core component of a range of federal efforts to improve the economic well-being of low-income families. However, recent trends in earnings and research both confirm that work alone is not sufficient to prevent poverty. While there is compelling evidence that additional years of schooling and advanced education credentials are associated with higher earnings, evaluations of education and basic skills training programs have yielded mixed results concerning their ability to increase earnings among low-income populations. This paper summarizes what is known from evaluations about the effectiveness of education acquisition to advance the earnings and careers of low-wage workers. The paper then discusses two popular community college strategies intended to increase academic success among this population: enhanced student services and performance-based scholarships. Recent research about performance-based scholarships suggests that they can have a large, positive effect on academic achievement among a predominately female, single-parent student population that faces multiple barriers to completing college.
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Female Students
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Low-Income Students
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Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Grantmakers for Education
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Understanding the working college student
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Community College 2.0
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
Flexible learning options for adult students
Measuring up 2008
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Opportunity.gov
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Breaking through: Factsheet
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Economic mobility of black and white families
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Addressing the needs of adult learners
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
Adult college completion toolkit
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
"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
Regardless of the cost, college still matters
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
What we know about dual enrollment
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy
Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Forging new partnerships: Adult and developmental education in community colleges
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Economic mobility project
Adult learners: A data and policy perspective
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Postsecondary Access and Success
Retooling career and technical education
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Federal access policies and higher education for working adults
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Gateway to College
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Higher education budgets and the global recession
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
College for all?
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Buying college: What consumers need to know
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Everybody ready for college
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
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
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Adolescent literacy
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Hard times: College majors, unemployment and earnings: Not all college degrees are created equal
Western Policy Exchanges
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
The global gender gap index: 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
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Five ways education pays initiative
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
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
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Latino college completion: Florida
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Help wanted: Postsecondary education and training required
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Does money matter? II
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
The Condition of Education 2010
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
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 Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
College InSight
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
College For Every Student
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
New England Journal of Higher Education
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce
Wising up: How government can partner with business to increase skills and advance low-wage workers
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Skills2Compete
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Economic state of young America
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
State future workforce gap summaries
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Schools, skills, and synapses
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
National Council of La Raza
The national articulation and transfer network
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
College success programs
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
What works for Latino students
Improving educational opportunties for students who work
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Scaling community college interventions
Latino college completion: California
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Project WIn-Win
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
Women Employed
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
State policy profiles for completion by design
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary
Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011
How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"
From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
The American middle class, income inequality, and the strength of our economy: New evidence in economics
Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020
The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College
What is "career ready"?
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
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
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults
Educational needs index
Pathways to college access and success
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings
A summary of career beginnings impact evaluation: Findings from a program for disadvantaged high school students
Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
First generation college students: A literature review
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Temporary help agencies and the advancement prospects of low earners
Racial disparities and the new federalism
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Early intervention program and college partnerships
Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution
The state of American manhood
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Accelerated developmental education project
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Center for Law and Social Policy
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Toward reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
Expanding the mission: Community colleges and the functions of workforce intermediaries
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018
Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
Insuring college failure risk
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
Student loan forgiveness programs: An evolving workforce development tool
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
BC AVID: Early implementation report
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
The work-based learning self assessment tool
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
The President's Forum
A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Summer Search
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
A sound investment: The community college dividend
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
Closing the gap between high school and college
Slip sliding away: An anxious public talks about today's economy and the American Dream
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
CollegeMeasures.org
ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways
A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars
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)
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents
On the road to success
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions
Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
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
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Common measures for college access and success
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Leveraging data for college completion
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?
Latino college completion: Texas
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)
FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
The US STEM education model (simulation)
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
What new faculty need to know about assessment
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Latino college completion: State series
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
A detection model of college withdrawal
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Student success in higher education
Adult College Completion Network
College completion toolkit
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Young workers: A lost decade
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
The value of value-added data
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Time to Completion Web Site
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
The workplace realities
Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
National Center for Academic Transformation
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Maximizing the potential of older adults: Benefits to state economies and individual well-being
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Mentoring former prisoners: A guide for re-entry programs
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes
Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials
The nature of innovation in the community college
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
The connection between health and high school dropout
Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses
New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Setting the record straight: How trendy approaches to college access might or might not be helping low-income students
Anderson University: ADVANCE
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide
Community colleges under stress
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Learning about the role of college student in dual enrollment participation
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
A call to action: Why America must innovate
The path to prosperity: A policy of investment
Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men
What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research
A college access contract
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Access to success initiative
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
Benchmarks: Indicators of effective educational practice
Earnings by attainment
In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities
Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
More student success: A systemic solution
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Low-income students and college success: More than money
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults
Postsecondary education opportunity
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
The educational, social, and economic benefits of making informed and considered career decisions
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi
Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era
Measuring up 2006
Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
Annotated bibliography: Perspectives in postsecondary education programs and student support interventions
Bridge program planning guide
Nontraditional undergraduates
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Student African American Brotherhood
Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates
The status of working families in Indiana: 2006 update
College of Adult and Professional Studies
Why community colleges?
The context of "choice" in college pathways
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
Accelerated learning for all
College learning for the new global century
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
The language of opportunity: Expanding employment prospects for adults with limited English skills
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Catching the Dream
Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study
Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
How do financial aid policies affect colleges? The institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship
Schools to watch
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
The false promise of class-size reduction
Gender inequalities in education
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Accomodating student veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder: Tips for campus faculty and staff
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains
Think College Indiana!
Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Ramp-up to Readiness
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
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
American Association of Community Colleges 2011 Advocacy Toolkit Factsheet
The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
An examination of the information technology job market
Cracking the credit hour
Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Healthcare
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Middle Start
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Student athletes with learning disabilities: A model for effective supports
Reflections on college access and persistence
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
Homeschooled adults: Are they ready for college
Lifelong learning accounts: Creating a partnership in lifelong learning
Evidence-based policy help desk
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly
Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Education and incarceration
Correctional education facts
Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries
Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Adult education participation in 2004-05
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Women on the rise
Better outcomes for low-income youth and adults: Lessons from MetLife foundation awards
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative
Adult learners and new traditions in higher education
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education
Collegiate learning assessement project
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
Graduate Retention Program
Back to school: Federal student aid policy and adult college enrollment
Indiana State Profile
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
The benefits of racial/ethnic student groups: A psychologist explains
The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana
Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Help wanted: Advanced education and the changing workforce
The broader societal benefits of higher education
Higher education's contribution to the knowledge economy
Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
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
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
College students working: The choice nexus
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Lumina Foundation for Education
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth
Work first, study second: Adult undergraduates who combine employment and postsecondary enrollment
Opening doors: Students’ perspectives on juggling work, family, and college
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education
College completion: Additional efforts could help education with its completion goals
The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
Education and economic mobility
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Enrollment status and outcomes
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
Engaging parents in education: Lessons from five parental information and resource centers
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
The real technology challenge
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
McNair scholar handbook
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Distance learning and adults with disabilities
YMCA
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Education and economic competitiveness
Workers need training, not tough talk
Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative
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
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary
Deciding on postsecondary education
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
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
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices
College access and success state data
Investing in lasting change: Productivity and U.S. higher education
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
The fiscal impacts of college attainment
What do we know about the economic benefits of the GED? A synthesis of evidence from recent research
The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners
Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool
Condition of education 2008
I-STEM Resource Network
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
Paving the way through paid internships: A proposal to expand educational and economic opportunities for low-income college students
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
SparkAction.org
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
A next social contract for the primary years of education
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
A paradox of education progress
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success
Creating jobs and supporting homeless students
2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Financial education in TRIO programs
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned
Research on retention and attrition
The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007
Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
How much are college students borrowing?
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Ups and downs: Does the American economy still promote upward mobility?
Pathways to economic mobility: Key indicators
Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions
National Youth Employment Coalition
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
What works in student retention 2010
The degree qualifications profile
The effects of grade retention on high school completion
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
Measuring efficiency in the community college sector
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Labor market returns to sub-baccalaureate credentials: How much does a community college degree or certificate pay?
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Evaluate mentoring programs
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
Prison vs. Princeton
Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends
The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Pat Tillman Foundation
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream
Three policies to reduce time to degree
Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Most Americans see college as essential to getting a good job
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
Ten facts about the recovery
STEM: Good jobs now and for the future
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development
HBCU distance learning 2010
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Community college and high school partnerships
Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Research support for school counseling
What do you want in an afterschool program?
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
Trends in student aid 2009
Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary
The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys
A matter of degrees: Tomorrow's fastest growing jobs, and why community college graduates will get them
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study
A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university
Pathways to College Network
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
Special populations: Tips for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges
Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
Sample state legislation to extend foster care, adoption, and guardianship protections, services, and payments to young adults age 18 and over
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition
The College Completion Agenda
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Tuning into local labor markets: Findings from the sectoral employment impact study
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
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
A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
The Workforce Alliance
Adult Basic Education to Community Colleges Transitions Symposium Proceedings Report
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight
YouthBuild USA
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Doing What Works - Research based education practices online
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
The academics athletics trade-off: Universities and intercollegiate athletics
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Educational policies for integrating college competencies and workforce needs: Cases from Brazil, Mongolia, Ukraine, and the United States
Collaborative for acadmic, social, and emotional learning (CASEL)
Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list
Reaching all children? Understanding early care and education participation among immigrant families
Education and public safety
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
Strategic directions in Indiana education
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
All Kinds of Minds
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Who graduates in California?
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Orphan Foundation of America
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
The education liason model
The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns
Adult persistence and success in higher education: A brief annotated bibliography of online resources
Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope
At what cost? The price that working students pay for a college education
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
National college access network
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Discounting toward disaster: Tuition discounting, college finances, and enrollments of low-income undergraduates
Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Education dedicated to black males still relevant
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions
Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
Learning in the fast lane: Adult learners’ persistence and success in accelerated college programs
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement
Community College Research Center
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
State higher education finance: FY 2004
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth
Puente Project
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
The art of student retention
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
12 Ways adult students can pay for college
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
Indiana's occupational employment outlook to 2012
Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position
UA Adult Focus
Setting the stage: Adults in Higher Education
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
What's wrong with guys?
The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Transfer college quality and student performance
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
The career pathways how-to guide
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society
The future at work: Trends and implications
Just for the kids
The promise and practice of employer educational assistance programs: 2004 State of the field strategies and trends
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
Center for Student Opportunity
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
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
Career academies: Impacts on students' engagement and performance in high school
An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students
Bridging the gap between high school and college
The Indiana workforce: An employer's perspective
Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education
Prison education program participation and recidivism: A test of the normalization hypothesis
National HIRE network: Resources and assistance: Indiana
Stats Indiana
Collaborative efforts in student retention: A snapshot of best practices across the nation
What keeps children in foster care from succeeding in school? Views of early adolescents and the adults in their lives
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Exploring relationships between student engagement and student outcomes in community colleges: Report on validation research
Improving lives: Ensuring the academic success of low-income adults
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders
P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills
The distribution of grants and scholarships by race
Dual enrollment for high school students
Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08
Assessing deeper learning
National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report
Trends in student aid 2011
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
America's youth: Transitions to adulthood
Are big-time sports a threat to student achivement?
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
College 101 courses for applied learning and student success
Trends in student aid 2012
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession
Supporting first-generation college students through classroom-based practices
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics
Does America promote mobility as well as other nations?
Framework for 21st century learning
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Solutions for America: Recommendations for the President and Congress from: Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions
It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Improving the odds for failing schools
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success
Questbridge
Literacy, criminal activity, and recidivism
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education
Middle College National Consortium
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
The disposable worker: Living in a job-loss economy
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Recent STEM initiatives
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college
Leading by example
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Career and technical education's role in American competitiveness
Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02
Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier
Is college right for your child?: How to weigh the pros and cons
The state of working America 2006/2007: Growth bypasses all but wealthiest few, wages stagnate despite rapid productivity growth
Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Lumina Foundation for Education: Adult learners
Digest of Education Statistics
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Educational opportunit
