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Author(s):Achieve
Title:Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Source:http://www.achieve.org/files/CommonCore.pdf
Date:2008
Organization:Achieve
Short Description:This report presents an analysis of the college- and career-ready standards for English in 12 states and for mathematics in 16 states. Findings describe what has been learned from the work of these leading states.
Annotation:This report presents an analysis of the college- and career-ready standards for English in 12 states and for mathematics in 16 states. Findings describe what has been learned from the work of these leading states. Implications are described for the role of the federal government in education policymaking and could potentially change the way education issues are viewed at the state and national levels.
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Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
Closing the expectations gap 2011
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Advancing STEM learning across the educational pipeline: Statewide efforts in Ohio
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009
Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out
How much growth toward college readiness is reasonable to expect in high school?
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
Ready by 21
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project
Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model
Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories
SREB/Go Alliance
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
RTI classification tool and resource locator
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
High school remediation
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
The value of value-added data
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
Building an early childhood professional development system
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
P-20 governance
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Expanded measures of school performance
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
The Everyone Graduates Center
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
College For Every Student
Early intervention program and college partnerships
Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles
What every college access practitioner should know about: The early college high school initiative – Indiana plans for the early college high school for science and technologies
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
A call to action: Why America must innovate
The national articulation and transfer network
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
States' progress toward high school restructuring
NCLB and high schools
College access: A framework for systemic program development
Maintaining a strong engineering workforce
QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
American Indian science and engineering society
Strategic instruction model
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Closing the expectations gap: 2006
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
Preparing students for success in college
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
Dual enrollment for high school students
Early warning indicator systems
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers
From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
Science and engineering indicators 2012
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
End-of-course exams
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
8th Annual AP report to the nation
California District Report Cards
What is "career ready"?
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
The first year of high school
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
State education agency funding and staffing in the education reform era
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
The Future Ready Project
2011 ACT national and state scores: State reports
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Latino youth and the pathway to college
High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice
Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
The PISA 2003 assessment framework: Mathematics, reading, science and problem solving knowledge and skills
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
Washington P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Ohio early college high school initiative
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
Pathways to excellence
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
The career pathways how-to guide
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Rigor and relevance: A new vision for career and technical education
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Aligned expectations: A closer look at college admissions and placement tests
Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
National defense education and innovation initiative: Meeting America's economic and security challenges in the twenty-first century
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
What works for Latino students
Education in the age of accountability: A research focus of the Urban Institute
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
Academic competitiveness grants
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Retooling career and technical education
ACT high school profile report: The graduation class of 2007 (Indiana)
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Indiana R&D 2008: Meeting the global challenge for innovation
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Fixing No Child Left Behind
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Federal Education Budget Project
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Evolving No Child Left Behind
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
National education standards: Getting beneath the surface
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do teachers need to know?
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Changing the odds for children and youth community profile: Northern Kentucky: Building a leadership council
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts
Don't stop collaborating - Just stop creating new collaboratives
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Gender inequalities in education
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
Ready by 21: Making quality count
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
Engaging diverse viewpoints: What is the campus climate for perspective taking?
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
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
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Diversifying the STEM pipeline: The model replication institutions program
Diversifying the STEM pipeline: The model replication institutions program (Fact Sheet)
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
Indiana's Growth Model (for measuring student achievement)
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Closing the expectations gap 2010
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Effective instructional strategies
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Why Algebra II?
The current status of school counseling outcome research
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
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
NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
Route 21: 21st century skills information, resources, and community tools
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
SparkAction.org
The breaking through practice guide
Education Bill Tracking Database
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
Why Pathways? A Better Approach to Transforming High School Education in California
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Response to Intervention resources for high schools
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Early college placement testing opportunities in Maine
North Carolina Early Mathematics Placement Testing
Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Retaining teacher talent: Convergence and contradictions in teachers' perceptions of policy reform ideas
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (State Reports)
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
Field guide for improving student success
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
The challenge of college readiness
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Standards in practice: An instructional gap analysis
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
How bold is "bold?" Responding to Race to the Top with a bold, actionable plan on teacher effectiveness
College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes
Pathways to College Network
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04
Is school funding fair? A national report card
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
Measuring adequate yearly progress: What "other" factors besides reading and math
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
Developmental education in community colleges
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
PreK-Grade 3: Which reading and literacy practices matter most?
The condition of education 2011
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
Early college designs
Don't count us out: How an overreliance on accountability could undermine the public's confidence in schools, business, government and more
New school year brings steep cuts in state funding for schools
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
The College Match Program
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Think College Indiana!
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Center on Reinventing Public Education
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
American Diploma Project Network: State Profiles
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
College access and success state data
21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
The future workforce of Indiana
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
College tools for schools
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Windows on achievement and inequality
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Tapping America's Potential
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Opportunity in America: The role of education
A science-based framework for early childhood policy
What works clearinghouse: Middle school math
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Implementing evidence-based practices: six "drivers" of success
Seven activities for enhancing the replicability of evidence-based practices
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
Culture of evidence
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum
Houston, do we really have a problem here?
High school - Advanced placement
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education
Standards for quality online teaching
Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Expanding learning time in high schools
A voice from the middle
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Women on the rise
Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness
Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
Full-day Kindergarten: A study of state policies in the United States
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Database of 21st century skills assessments
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Accelerated learning for all
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
EPAS®: A system that works
Recommended classes: A great schedule leads to college success
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
What kind of test preparation is best?
More states using the ACT as part of alignment efforts
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Results that matter: New technology high school at a glance
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students
The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery
All over the map: State policies to improve the high school
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
High school coursework: Policy trends and implications for higher education
Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Making progress toward graduation: Evidence from the talent development high school model
High school reform - Issue brief
Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different
Measuring up on college-level learning
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
An action agenda for improving America's high schools
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Multiple pathways and state policy: Toward education and training beyond high school
Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform
NCHEMS information center
Increasing the representation of women and people of color in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM): Scan and synopsis of approaches and opportunities
National inventory of academic pathways
Pathways to college access and success
Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002
National High School Center
Do graduation tests measure up: A closer look at state high school exit exams
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
Evaluate mentoring programs
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
New policies should align with existing goals and plans for children and youth
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
After the stimulus money ends: The status of state k-12 education funding and reforms
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness
Western Policy Exchanges
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Civic engagement through digital citizenship: Engaging youth in active, participatory citizenship
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
Five things education supporters should know about pension reform
Supporting education policy and practice through common data standards: A policymaker's guide
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states
Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
Graduate enrollment in science and engineering grew substantially in the past decade but slowed in 2010
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
State high school exit exams: A policy in transition
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students
Promoting work-based learning: Efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
College and career development organizer
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
Learning what it takes: An initial look at how schools are using early warning data and collaborative response teams to keep all students on track to success
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
A dozen facts about k-12 education
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
The complexity of college and career readiness
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Third grade reading policies
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Framework for 21st century learning
SREB State progress reports 2012
2012 SREB Annual Report
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Data quality campaign 2012 snapshot
Interactive learning online at public universities: Evidence from randomized trials
Smart class-size policies for lean times
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
State pre-k assessment policies: Issues and status
Career mapping eyed to prepare students for college
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
State aid to nonpublic schools
Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries
ETS: The Achievement Gap (website)
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Duration and intensity: No time for cutting corners
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
On the road to success
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures
The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
AYP results for 2010-11
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
10 Pieces of advice from students for teachers
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Teaching children well: New evidence-based approaches to teacher professional development and training
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations
Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools
School and college partnerships: The missing link
State Scholars Initiative
Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom
Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
ScholarShop
High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities
Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Science and engineering indicators 2006
The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and the Humanities: Resource for rural Indiana
Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education
On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school
Dual credit and exam-based courses in US public high schools:2002-03
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards
Getting students ready for college and careers
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Miles to go: Louisiana
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Charting a new course for career and technical education
Linking career/technical studies to broader high school reform
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
The taxonomy of career development interventions that occur in America's secondary schools
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills
What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?
Alternatives to the grade point average as measures of academic achievement in college
ACT high school profile report: National
ACT high school profile report: Indiana
Incorporating ACT scores into your statewide assessment
The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Effective multicultural curriculum transformation in "advanced" mathematics and "hard" sciences
Differential grading standards among high schools
EPAS® Meets unique needs of GEAR UP programs
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience
Sustaining focus on secondary school reading: Lessons and recommendations from the Alabama reading initiative
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Just for the kids
College bound seniors state profile report tutorial
Building the foundation for bright futures: Final report of the NGA task force on school readiness
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements
Distance education
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Below the accountability radar screen: What does state policy say about school counseling
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Who graduates in California?
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states
How are states using community-based child care to provide pre-k: State-by-state summaries
Early college high school initiative: Brochure (2007)
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
No Child Left Behind - standards, assessment, and accountability
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors
Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana
SEG Scholarship Program
Ivy Tech programs: Fast track to college and double up for college
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Schools, skills, and synapses
California State University: Early assessment program
2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)
YouthBuild USA
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
The Equity Project
Measuring up 2008
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
Flexible learning options for adult students
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
Can the American high school become an avenue of advancement for all?
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Student Success Skills
U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Improving accountability in public education
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Education Equality Project
Changes in Graduation Rates by State (Progress and Challenge Indexes)
Education watch 2009
College readiness standards
Think again: The connection between education and true independence
Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
State education activities to support mission growth
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Align new policies with existing efforts to collaborate
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)
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
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Measuring inequity in school funding
The condition of college and career readiness 2011
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
What savings are produced by moving to a four-day school week?
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
College Board AP Summary Reports: 2009
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
ED Data Express
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles
An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Cracks in the ivory tower? The views of education professors circa 2010
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
Financial aid at California community colleges: Pell grants and fee waivers in 2003-04
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Insuring college failure risk
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education
Redefining college readiness
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools
Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information
2009 ACT National and State Scores
Background and context for equity audits
Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program: Building a pipeline of skilled workers
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
A framework for a multi-state human capital development data system
The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
RTI Progress monitoring tools chart
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF)
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
Tiered intervention on the high school level
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
Parent engagement toolkit
2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population
The Condition of Education 2010
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Education Trust-West
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
The nature of innovation in the community college
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis

 

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