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Rockville, W.
Title:
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
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http://inpathways.net/gearup.pdf
Date:
2003
Organization:
U.S. Department of Education
Short Description:
This paper describes the programs offered by GEAR UP.
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In particular, this paper describes the students who benefit from GEAR UP and the services provided by GEAR UP.
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Data
Documents
Evaluation
Evidence-based Interventions/Promising Practices
High School
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
Low-Income Students
Middle School
National College Access Organizations
Parent/Family Involvement and Community Engagement
Policy
Preparation/College Readiness
TRIO and GEAR UP Programs
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The economic value of opportunity youth
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
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)
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Don't stop collaborating - Just stop creating new collaboratives
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
The condition of education in brief: 2005
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Building an early childhood professional development system
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Growing What Works Database
Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
The nature of innovation in the community college
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
YourWordsToday.org
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
EPAS®: A system that works
Developing the STEM education pipeline
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs
Your senior year
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Motivating the unmotivated student
What works in student retention
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Talent Development High Schools
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Accelerated learning for all
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program
A summary of career beginnings impact evaluation: Findings from a program for disadvantaged high school students
Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Preparing students for success in college
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
Cal-SOAP
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
Pathways to improving practice: Data-driven pre-college outreach programs
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Summer Search
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
Campaign for High School Equity
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Black Alliance for Educational Options
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
College access and success state data
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
All Kinds of Minds
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Connecting schools, families, and communities: Stories and results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education investments
Closing the achievement gap: School, community, family connections
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory
Evaluate mentoring programs
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
On the road to success
On her majesty's school inspection service
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Starfish Initiative
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Who graduates in California?
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Creating a college-going culture guide
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
What works clearinghouse: Middle school math
The national articulation and transfer network
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
McNair scholar handbook
Learn and Serve America
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Gateway to College
Measuring up 2008
Doing What Works - Research based education practices online
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
The Everyone Graduates Center
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Breakthrough Collaborative
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Field guide for improving student success
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
National College Access Program Directory
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs use data to make decisions
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
Reaching parents: The role of Latino parents in their children's education
Building a strong community partnership
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Reaching higher ground: Parental outreach programs at the postsecondary level
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
What works clearinghouse
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
The lost opportunity of senior year: Finding a better way
College readiness begins in middle school
School relationships foster success for African American students
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
National inventory of academic pathways
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
School and parent interaction by household language and poverty status: 2002–03
College learning for the new global century
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
Opportunity in America: The role of education
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Campus visit checklist: How to make the most of the trip
National Parent School Partnership Program
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Where the scholarships are: How to develop a scholarship strategy
What helps or hinders students' chances of success in college?
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Scholarship guide
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?
Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories
The four keys: Unlocking high school success and the path to college
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
The connection between health and high school dropout
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university
Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
SREB/Go Alliance
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
A first look at the common core and college and career readiness
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?
What do you want in an afterschool program?
Transforming education in America
Hearing on non-traditional students
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Pell Institute: TRIO clearinghouse
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
The role of mentoring in college access and success
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Think College Indiana!
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment
Assessing deeper learning
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Western Policy Exchanges
8th Annual AP report to the nation
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
The first year of high school
2012 National survey of school counselors
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
The case for change in college admissions
A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
Dual enrollment for high school students
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Operation Military Kids
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Operation College Promise
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student
The undereducated American
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
ESEA Briefing Book
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Central Indiana Talent Alliance
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Ready by 21: Making quality count
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
RTI Progress monitoring tools chart
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Chidren's Budget 2010
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Closing the access gap: Does information matter?
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
No Excuses University Network
Beyond the bake sale: A community-based relational approach to parent engagement in schools
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
A shared agenda: Action alert for community leaders
College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Council for Exceptional Children
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children
Why students drop out of school: A review of 25 years of research
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
What kind of test preparation is best?
Are high school grades inflated?
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
Differential grading standards among high schools
Financial aid and scholarship information for undocumented students
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
College access: A framework for systemic program development
College guide for students with disabilities
Student African American Brotherhood
College prep glossary: College admissions from A to Z
The key to success in community college
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
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How to apply for a scholarship: The money is there, but you have to ask for it
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Relationships between EPAS scores and college preparatory course work in high school
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
The first year of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
States' progress toward high school restructuring
YMCA
The ASCA national model
Partnership for Learning
Fund Your Future: Counselors' Guide
Helping Teens Succeed
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Knowhow2go.org
Improving math performance
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Learning in a new key
Retooling career and technical education
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
What works for Latino students
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Nontraditional undergraduates
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
The context of "choice" in college pathways
A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices
Access to the most selective private colleges by high-ability, low-income students: Are they out there?
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
Primary progress, secondary challenge
Lumina Foundation for Education
USA Funds
Early college high school initiative
African American achievement in America
Latino achievement in America
The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
Empty promises: The myth of college access in America
Just and efficient college finance
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth
Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success
TRIO Programs
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
Measuring up 2006
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CSCORE)
Twenty-first Century Scholars Program
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
Foundation for excellent schools
National Association of Street Schools
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Parental involvement: Why it matters, how to get it
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Diversity, school, family, and community connections
Success for All Foundation
Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Family firsts: Reach for your dreams
College readiness and high school-to-college success
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Preparation for college admissions exams
College readiness for all toolbox
More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation
Education watch 2009
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
College tools for schools
National League of Cities
YouthBuild USA
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
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
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Windows on achievement and inequality
Building community learning systems: The Columbus learning center
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education
Programs at higher education institutions for disadvantaged precollege students
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
Setting the record straight: How trendy approaches to college access might or might not be helping low-income students
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
National Center for Family Literacy
National Council of La Raza
Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
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
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
Quality counts 2008
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
Breaking through: Factsheet
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Common measures for college access and success
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
College Greenlight
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
College is affordable: A pilot study
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Redefining your success: The role of adolescent connectedness in demonstrating mentoring impact
State policy profiles for completion by design
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
Early warning system middle grades tool
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
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
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
College planning resource directory
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
Encouraging girls in math and science
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
The Mind Trust
2007 Survey of parents of college-bound freshman
Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
Orphan Foundation of America
Academic competitiveness grants
Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
Postsecondary Access and Success
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices
Reaching all children? Understanding early care and education participation among immigrant families
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Center for Law and Social Policy
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Network for Good
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Condition of education 2008
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
National Center for Postsecondary Education
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000
More student success: A systemic solution
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
Economic mobility of black and white families
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana
Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Communities in Schools
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
State future workforce gap summaries
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Indiana Graduation Plan Statute
The Equity Project
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within
Collaborative for acadmic, social, and emotional learning (CASEL)
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
National School Lunch Program: State-level data FFY1989 to FFY2008
High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California
National Center for Summer Learning
The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
Connected by 25: Financing housing supports for youth transitioning out of high school
Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide
The state of learning disabilities 2009
Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
Child trends: Education
College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
Student Success Skills
How much are college students borrowing?
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Funding and access issues in public higher education: A community college perspective
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Seize the moment: The need for a comprehensive federal investment in adolescent literacy
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Transitions -- First-generation students: A promising concept?
National Center for College Costs
Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
College access: From the inside out
Center for Student Opportunity
Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04
Strategic instruction model
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students
Dual credit and exam-based courses in US public high schools:2002-03
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
Parents reports of school practices to provide information to families: 1996 and 2003
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
Academic pathways to access and student success
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
Summary of Indiana policy environment to support and sustain early college high schools
College access: Results from a survey of low-income teens and parents
Community College Research Center
Citizen Schools
Project GRAD
ScholarShop
Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models
Knowledge is power program
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Connecting the dots: Multifaceted analyses of the relationships between student engagement results from the NSSE, and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success
Promoting parent involvement, improving student outcomes
Involving parents
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness
Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Pre-college outreach programs for low-income students: A literature review
The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success
A guide to establishing community-based college access centers
Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults
Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools
A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success
Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students
College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it
The American diploma project: Overview of research
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Do grants matter?
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
College success programs
Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs
TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)
Factors that influence high school student mentoring relationships
Achievement in America
Advisory committee on student financial assistance
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
An action agenda for improving America's high schools
Postsecondary education opportunity
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Reading between the lines: What ACT reveals about college readiness in reading
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004
The student debt dilemma: Debt aversion as a barrier to college access
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy
Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
A summary of research and publications on early childhood for American Indian and Alaska Native children
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
College entrance tests
Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer
Twenty things you need to know about financing college
Reading--Young children's achievement and classroom experiences
Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Finding the right college for you
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)
Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
A road map for learning: Improving educational outcomes in foster care: A strategic guide for success in school
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Guide to creating community-based college access programs
Catching the Dream
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
First ask, then listen: How to get your students to help you teach them better
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
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges
Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in Their Children's Education: A Guide for Teachers
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities
Toward ensuring a smooth transition into high school
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
Improving students' readiness for college: Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Illinois District 233
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
Discover 10 ways to jump-start college planning: Help your child take the right steps, now
Ten ways to help your child become self-reliant
Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience
Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience
Eligiendo una universidad (Choosing a college)
Frequently asked questions
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
EPAS® Meets unique needs of GEAR UP programs
First in my family: A profile of first-generation college students at four-year institutions since 1971 - executive summary
Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores
Financial aid glossary: Some terms you may enounter on the road
The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Evidence-based dropout prevention programs
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
Making graduation a priority
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Who are America's poor children: The official story
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Global Skills for Global Completion
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Complete College America
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
Effective instructional strategies
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states
Addressing study error in the random assignment national evaluation of Upward Bound: Do the conclusions change?
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
A shared agenda: Action alert for school superintendents & middle & high school principals
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing
School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of comprehensive school reform programs
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers
Investing in their future: A survey of student and parental support for learning
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
Assessment for improvement: Tracking student engagement over time (NSSE 2009 Annual Report)
Parental involvement in middle school: A meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08
Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?
The high school senior class of 2003-04: Steps toward postsecondary enrollment
Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Getting ready for high school (tips for parents from the American School Counselor Association)
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Afterschool Alliance
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
RTI classification tool and resource locator
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Changing the odds for children and youth community profile: Northern Kentucky: Building a leadership council
Planning a school-based mentoring program
Best practices in social media: Summary of findings from the second comprehensive study of social media use by schools, colleges, and universities
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement
Research support for school counseling
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
The condition of education 2011
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Gender inequalities in education
Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Parents want to know
Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009
More time for learning: Student participation in extended day programming at the UCCS Donoghue campus during the 2009-10 school year
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
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
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
Early warning indicator systems
Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders
The Future Ready Project
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Five ways education pays initiative
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
A guide for African-American parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
California District Report Cards
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
Why access matters: The community college student body
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
The road to high-quality early education
Bullying and open enrollment
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Improving the odds for failing schools
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
What is "career ready"?
How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
The missing "one-offs": The hidden supply of high achieving, low-income students
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
College 101 courses for applied learning and student success
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
10 Pieces of advice from students for teachers
Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels
2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
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
Latino college completion: California
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
2004/2009 Beginning postsecondary students longitudinal study
Trends in student aid 2011
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
Revamping the teacher evaluation process
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
Scaling community college interventions
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region
IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
Early college designs
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
The Division III financial aid reporting program: Review results 2005-06 through 2010-11: Executive summary
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Latino college completion: Florida
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do parents need to know?
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
P-20 governance
The nation's report card: Science 2009
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Closing the expectations gap 2011
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
Staff report to the NACAC Assembly: Early notification study
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
Developmental education in community colleges
Community college and high school partnerships
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
The 2010 Brown Center report on American education
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey
Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)
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
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom
Tiered intervention on the high school level
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Response to Intervention policy
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
Portrait in numbers
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Web tables: Choosing a postsecondary institution
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
Midwest evaluation of the adult functioning of former foster youth
The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
Grantmakers for Education
America's private public schools
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
2009 ACT National and State Scores
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
Does money matter? II
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth
Invisible: 1.4 percent coverage for education is not enough
Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
The Center for Public Education
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Creating jobs and supporting homeless students
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Believing the College Dream (Curriculum guide for college planning)
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
Solutions for America: Dropout prevention
A five year comparison between an extended school year and a conventional year school: Effects on academic achievement
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
Ready by 21
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies
The current status of school counseling outcome research
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007
Center on Education and the Workforce
Incorporating ACT scores into your statewide assessment
Financial aid FAQ (frequently asked questions)
Cómo pagar por sus estudios universitarios (Financial aid guide)
College planning acronym dictionary
Managing procrastination: Help your child build good study habits
Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Translations for success
Homework helper: Help your child take control
Choosing smart electives: Cultivating interests, strengths, and special talents
Improving performance on the ACT assessment
Monitoring changes in high school average ACT composite scores over time
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Knocking at the college door: California state report
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Pathways to excellence
Creating Partnerships, Bridging worlds: Family and Community Engagement
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success
Study of institutional research capacity and use of data at community colleges
Making writing essential to teen lives
Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men
Update on advanced placement
Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education
Questbridge
A study of admissions officers' perceptions of and attitudes toward homeschooled students
Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Steps to success (English and Spanish Versions)
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly
Excelencia in education
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Reflections on college access and persistence
An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students
High Tech High Foundation
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
Turning Points
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
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A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
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Spanish services training guide
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New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south
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Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
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First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students
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Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
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Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
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First generation college students: A literature review
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Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
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High school counselors handbook 2004-05
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
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Research brief: How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth grade students
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