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Author(s):	Amos, J
Title:	Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Source:	http://www.all4ed.org/files/Econ2008.pdf
Date:	2008
Organization:	Alliance for Excellent Education
Short Description:	This report examines the need for systemic reform of U.S. high schools, to create an education system where every child is a high school graduate, prepared for success in college and life.
Annotation:	In an increasingly global economy, American secondary schools and their students must achieve at increasingly higher levels to allow the country to maintain its competitive advantage. This report examines the need for systemic reform of U.S. high schools, to create an education system where every child is a high school graduate, prepared for success in college and life.
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Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation

Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds

The nation's report card: Science 2011

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

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

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices

Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates

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

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)

Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed

Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce

Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts

Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness

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

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

Transforming education in America

Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?

Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning

Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching

The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation

Adolescent literacy

The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement

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

Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter

Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates

2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

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

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts

Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

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

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

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

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families

Indiana State Profile

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models

Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce

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

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

Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG.org)

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families

Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men

Developing the STEM education pipeline

Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP

Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)

Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4

Effective multicultural curriculum transformation in "advanced" mathematics and "hard" sciences

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

College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum

Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace

Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants

Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni

Waiting for Sputnik: Basic research and strategic competition

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

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

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school

Minority student achievement network

High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education

Foundation for excellent schools

Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured

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

Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education

Miles to go: Louisiana

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly

Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective

The American diploma project: Overview of research

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

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

The early college high school: The initiative at a glance

Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Help wanted: Advanced education and the changing workforce

Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science

The broader societal benefits of higher education

Higher education's contribution to the knowledge economy

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

School relationships foster success for African American students

Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

African American achievement in America

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

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

Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad

Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms

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

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007

Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states

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

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year

A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education

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

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

Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education

Higher education budgets and the global recession

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs

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

National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation

On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

The consequences of dropping out of high school: Joblessness and jailing for high school dropouts and the high cost for taxpayers

Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

BC AVID: Early implementation report

The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey

Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery

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

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability

How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement

How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards

Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning

The future of public education in New Orleans

Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates

Career pathways: A strategy for transforming America's workforce education systems to support economic growth

Educational policies for integrating college competencies and workforce needs: Cases from Brazil, Mongolia, Ukraine, and the United States

Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school

Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)

Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education

A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness

The future workforce of Indiana

Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges

Federal access policies and higher education for working adults

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Facts for education advocates

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

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

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

Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability

Investing in lasting change: Productivity and U.S. higher education

Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools

Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004

National Center on Education and the Economy

Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce

America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

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

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Institute for a Competitive Workforce

Center for Law and Social Policy

Science and mathematics education indicators

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

What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover

Literacy instruction in the content areas: Getting to the core of middle and high school improvement

The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students

Sizing up state standards: 2008

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

Good Shepherd Services

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America

Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas

College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education

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

Projections of education statistics to 2016

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools

The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

What every college access practitioner should know about: Unintended consequences, criminal justice edition

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

The minds of boys

A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents

New England Journal of Higher Education

The state of American manhood

Windows on achievement and inequality

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

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

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)

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

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

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth

International Benchmarking Toolkit

Education Equality Project

Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners

A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators

Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century

Pathways to economic mobility: Key indicators

Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?

Estimating the social value of higher education: Willingness to pay for community and technical colleges

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

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century

California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)

Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison

Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

School District Demographics System (SDDS)

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

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

Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

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

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

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

Rising by Degrees

Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success

Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers

American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report

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

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

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

Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts

On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State

Latino achievement in America

Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south

Achievement in America

Does diversity make a difference? Three research studies on diversity in college classrooms

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

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

A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources

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

The Gates effect

High schools for the new millennium

The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts

The educational, social, and economic benefits of making informed and considered career decisions

Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

Latino youth and the pathway to college

The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores

Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences

An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace

Losing our future: How minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis

From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth

Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college

The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings

The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders

Catching the Dream

Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy

The Indiana workforce: An employer's perspective

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

Who's counted? Who's counting? Understanding high school graduation rates

Education and the economy: An indicators report

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

State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians

Schools to watch

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

Indian students and college preparation

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males

Education commission of the states: Online high school policy database

Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities

CPS: A leader in AP growth

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

What works clearinghouse

State of college admission 2007

Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries

The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

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

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

College learning for the new global century

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Education and incarceration

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

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements

Findings and trends Fall 1990 - Fall 2000

Diversity and the college curriculum: How colleges and universities are preparing students for a changing world

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

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

National defense education and innovation initiative: Meeting America's economic and security challenges in the twenty-first century

All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006

College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills

EPAS®: A system that works

Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work

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

What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?

A voice from the middle

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs

Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations

National Council of La Raza

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

The national articulation and transfer network

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world

Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version

Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed

African American students and U.S. high schools

Latino students and U.S. high schools

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

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity

State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data

Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies

Knocking at the college door: California state report

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

Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary

New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates

An examination of the information technology job market

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

Downward mobility from the middle class: Waking up from the American Dream

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet

Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011

Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation

Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action

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

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

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core

Why access matters: The community college student body

Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion

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

High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle

Mobility makers

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

The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood

Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education

The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Young, underemployed, and optimistic: Coming of age, slowly, in a tough economy

Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda

Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States

Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies

Digest of Education Statistics 2011

Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020

Most Americans see college as essential to getting a good job

Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

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

Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved

Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

Workforce development economics 101: State by state snapshots

Kids Count Data Center

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34

The great unraveling: A portrait of the middle class

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success

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

A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?

Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

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

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

State and local policy for reconnecting youth

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Research support for school counseling

K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities

Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students

A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all

The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma

Is school funding fair? A national report card

Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment

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

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

Central Indiana Talent Alliance

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

Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

Building an early childhood professional development system

The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects

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

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

Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community

"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries

Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success

Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers

2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population

Afterschool Alliance

Eight components of college and career readiness counseling

Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers

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

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010

What does research say about 21st century skills?

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

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

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

YourWordsToday.org

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

Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005

Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide

Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04

Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study

Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates

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

Diploma to nowhere

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET): Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

Chidren's Budget 2010

Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence

The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010

The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers

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

Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis

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

ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School

The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else

Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

A balance sheet at 30 months: How the great recession has changed life in America

Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative

Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges

The rise of college student borrowing

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

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

The US STEM education model (simulation)

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

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

States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses

STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005

Immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's education at home and at school in 1999-2000

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

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

Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college

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

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

Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges

Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education

Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap

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

Projections of education statistics to 2019

Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)

Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education

Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college

Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid

Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

Boosting college completion for a new economy

Ten facts about the recovery

Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student

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

Hispanic college enrollment spikes, narrowing gaps with other groups

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

Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate

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

Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success

A guide for African-American 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

Latino college completion: State series

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

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress

Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion

Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

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

After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality

The Future Ready Project

An economy that works: Job creation and America's future

Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success

Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations

ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator

Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey

Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce

MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards

Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

What is "career ready"?

Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class

Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States

Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative

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

America's youth: Transitions to adulthood

Prison vs. Princeton

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model

Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates

State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

8th Annual AP report to 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

Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort

Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents

The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges

Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states

Improving the odds for failing schools

12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness

Innovation in higher education: Public opinion survey results

Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context

Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program

Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.

The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

Does America promote mobility as well as other nations?

Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States

No end in sight? The long term youth jobs gap and what it means for America

America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2012

SREB State progress reports 2012

Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation

Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas

The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes

Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America

Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English

The first year of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Earnings by attainment

Washington Data and Reports

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

Colorado Reports

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

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

Digest of Education Statistics

State of adult literacy

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

Rescuing Brown v. Board of Education: Profiles of twelve school districts pursuing socioeconomic school integration

Is college right for your child?: How to weigh the pros and cons

Why community colleges?

Digest of education statistics: 2006

Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center

Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options

Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs

Council of graduate schools

The path to prosperity: A policy of investment

High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college

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

Rethinking high school: Five profiles of innovative models for student success

Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience

LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11

Creating a culture of literacy: A guide for middle and high school principals

Access to success initiative

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

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

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

Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans

Focus on dropout factories: Associated press article spotlights low-performing high schools, draws criticism from many school officials

Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list

Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Postsecondary Access and Success

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

More information on the methodology, data, and terms used in the AP dropout factory story

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

College access: A framework for systemic program development

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

Timing and duration of student participation in special education in the primary grades

U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

Action plan: Educators/Policymakers

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)

Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree

The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups

ACT high school profile report: National

Program helps at-risk students succeed

QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college

Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

The knowledge we need about race and racism

The benefits of racial/ethnic student groups: A psychologist explains

Where are the Black scientists?

Institute for Educational Leadership

Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response

Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states

Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels

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

Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind

Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

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

Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

The competitiveness index: Where America stands

The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay

Setting a public agenda for higher education in the states: Lessons learned from the national collaborative for higher education policy

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

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts

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

The language of opportunity: Expanding employment prospects for adults with limited English skills

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans

Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist

Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools

American FactFinder

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare

How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students

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

Education watch online

Diplomas count: An essential guide to graduation policy and rates

Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform

Success for All Foundation

KnowledgeWorks Foundation

High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education

American student achievement institute

Tough choices or tough times: The report of the new commission on the skills of the American workforce

Charting a new course for career and technical education

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Talent Development High Schools

Indiana's dropout prevention tool-kit: A legislative primer

Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability

Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today

Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology

When prisoners return to the community: Political, social and economic consequences

How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth

Achieving diversity: Race neutral alternatives in American education

Beyond percentage plans: The challenge of equal opportunity in higher education

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth

Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs

On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college

One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity

The education pipeline in the U.S., 1970-2000

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

Measuring up 2004

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

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different

Summary of Indiana policy environment to support and sustain early college high schools

A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth

Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults

Primary progress, secondary challenge

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

Investing in America's future

Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era

NCHEMS information center

Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities

Our impoverished view of education reform

The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth

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

The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

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

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada

Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)

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

National Fund for Workforce Solutions: Prinicples and policy implications

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

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

The value of value-added data

Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative

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

Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

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

Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity

College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success

College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success

It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs

State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report

Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

Closing the expectations gap 2010

Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses

Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal

Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction

Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform

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

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school

A developmental perspective on workplace readiness: Preparing high school students for success

The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools

Can the American high school become an avenue of advancement for all?

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)

Improving accountability in public education

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

The Everyone Graduates Center

The state of learning disabilities 2009

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

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress

Deciding on postsecondary education

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

Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth

Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials

Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students

Integration defended: Berkley Unified's strategy to maintain school diversity

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

The productivity argument for investing in young children

Breakthrough Collaborative

The fiscal effects of investing in high-quality preschool programs

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools

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

The price of knowledge, vol. 4, chapter 1: The value of a degree: Education, employment and earnings in Canada

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

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

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

Coming of age (information about educational equity audits)

Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools

Survey of Canadian career college students, phase III: Graduate survey

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

Middle-class schools for all

The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings

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

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Education and economic mobility

Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors

The male achievement gap in Indiana

What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities

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

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation

North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure

Education Commission of the States: Research studies database

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states

Rural America at a glance (2003)

Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students

Workers need training, not tough talk

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief

The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders

Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)

Think again: The connection between education and true independence

Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)

Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education

2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

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

Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students

Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college

Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards

College tools for schools

College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students

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

Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood

Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

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

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Language rights: An integration agenda for immigrant communities

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey

Tapping America's Potential

Diverse issues in higher education

Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges, and long-range plans

College access and success state data

Dropout prevention practice guide

Examining American Indian perspectives in the Central Region on parent's involvement in education

Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up

It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success

Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice

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

Smaller Learning Communities Annotated Bibliography

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

EdVisions Cooperative

The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital

Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care

The forgotten choice? Rethinking magnet schools in a changing landscape

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

Chasing the high school graduation rate: Getting the data we need and using it right

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

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

Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems

10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress

One in 31: The long reach of American corrections

US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models

The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence

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

Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction

From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality

Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool

No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)

National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)

Starfish Initiative

Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges

Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school

"Innovation shift" to the emerging economies: Cases from IT and heavy industries

Mentors en Español

Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions

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

U.S. population projections: 2005-2050

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning

Effective literacy and English language instruction for English learners in the elementary grades

Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying employment readiness skills and the skills for on-the-job success

Career preparation curriculum

Mental health in school and school improvement: Current status, concerns, and new directions

Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education

A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program

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

U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Website

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

Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships

I-STEM Resource Network

The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction

Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers

Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations

Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

National Center for Learning Disabilities

Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect

Preschool: America's best investment

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College

The spaces between the numbers: Getting international data on higher education straight

Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information

Creating a college-going culture for English-language learners

Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture

The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools

The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference

Moving English language learners to college- and career-readiness

College readiness for all toolbox

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Projections of education statistics to 2018

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators

Whole-school reform: Transforming the nation's low-performing high schools

Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992-2022 (State Profiles)

Young workers: A lost decade

Gallup student poll national report

Commission to Build a Healthier America

Center on Reinventing Public Education

College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences

Value of a college education (calculator)

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

Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today

Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts

Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students

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

Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway

College-going cultures in urban high schools

Meeting the invention challenge

A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness

Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

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

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

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

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?

Committee for Economic Development (CED)

Council for Exceptional Children

Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations

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

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

Estimating the number of jobs created or saved

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses

Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders

The connection between health and high school dropout

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

Digest of Education Statistics, 2009

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

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

Help wanted: Postsecondary education and training required

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success

Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers

Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)

Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009

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

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

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

College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system

The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

Early college high school initiative

Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals

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

Vocational mentoring: An experience-based career mentoring program for high school juniors and seniors at risk of not graduating

P-16: Building a cohesive education system from preschool through postsecondary

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

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

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

They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

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

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

U.S. immigration: Trends and implications for schools

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America

Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused

Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs

Educational attainment of the population 25 years and over, by state

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report

Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships

High school graduation rankings and rates for fifty states 2002

Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states

Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

Counseling and college counseling in America’s high schools

What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education

Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012

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

Indiana public school student population information

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

The investment payoff: A 50 state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education.

Education pays 2004: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

Is more better? The impact of postsecondary education on the social and economic well-being of American society

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

The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns

Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds

The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education

State high school exit exams: A maturing reform

In state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers

Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success

Collaborative efforts in student retention: A snapshot of best practices across the nation

Indiana's 2006 graduation rate

America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study

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

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

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

Excelencia in education

Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

The disposable worker: Living in a job-loss economy

Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success

Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities

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

Resources for businesses hiring formerly incarcerated persons

National forum to accelerate middle grades reform

Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth

Federal requirements for homeschoolers seeking college admission and financial aid

Public schools and economic development: What the research shows

Parental involvement: Why it matters, how to get it

Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi

National Association of Street Schools

Big Picture Company

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Bridges to Success

Talent...Opportunity: Prosperity depends on connecting the dots

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

Frequently asked questions regarding Indiana's new high school course and credit requirements

National Urban League: Campaign for African American Achievement

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success

User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education

Dual credit and exam-based courses in US public high schools:2002-03

A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002

High school reform - Issue brief

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

Reaching parents: The role of Latino parents in their children's education

The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students

Raising minority academic achievement: A compendium of education programs and practices

College access: From the inside out

Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America

Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries

Bridge Partnership

Boys and girls harbor

Forum guide to education indicators

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education

Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do

American Indian and Alaska Native children: Findings from the base year of the early childhood longitudinal study, birth cohort

Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices

Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

Brown at 50: King's dream or Plessy's nightmare

Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study

The career pathways how-to guide

PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

A new way on school integration

Reading next: A vision for action and research in middle and high school literacy

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

Leading by example

Returning to our roots: Student access

How diversity affects teaching and learning

Latinos in elementary education

What works for Latino students

State education reforms – Standards, assessment, and accountability

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Are high school grades inflated?

Understanding high school graduation rates (updated): National and state-specific information

An historical overview of revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary education, by state: Fiscal years 1990-2002

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test

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

The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007

The nation's report card: Reading 2007

What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice

Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system

Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life

Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices

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

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005

'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards

Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence

National and state data

The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement

Leading the conversion process: Lessons learned and recommendations for converting to small learning communities

Improving math performance

ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)

High school dropouts in America

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

The changing racial and ethnic composition of U.S. public schools

The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

Pathways to excellence

College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over

Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in Their Children's Education: A Guide for Teachers

Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families

No county left behind: The persistence of educational deprivation in Indiana

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school

Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports

Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?

The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success

K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education

Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men

A dozen facts about k-12 education

Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors

The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis

National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure

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

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

Five things education supporters should know about pension reform

Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education

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

2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Information constraints and financial aid policy

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions

Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs

It can be done, it's being done, and here's how

Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?

Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds

On her majesty's school inspection service

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district

Supporting our youngest children: Early Head Start programs in 2010

A tool using data to inform a state early childhood agenda

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish

The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom

Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years

Solutions for America: Recommendations for the President and Congress from: Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education

P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills

Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness

Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males

Expanded measures of school performance

Early warning indicator systems

Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline

Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation

Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11

Assessing deeper learning

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

Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030

Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

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

The global gender gap index: 2011

Ramp-up to Readiness

Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009

The hidden costs of community colleges

Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications

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

Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series

The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

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

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures

Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education

2011 ACT national and state scores: State reports

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

The false promise of class-size reduction

The College Match Program

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative

Everybody ready for college

Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity

7th Annual AP report to the nation

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

The nation's report card: Science 2009

Breaking new ground: Building a national workforce skills credentialing system

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

The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring

Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

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

Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education

Parents' guide to student success

A sound investment: The community college dividend

Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school

The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process

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

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants

Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

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

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges

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

Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04

The condition of education in brief: 2005

Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey

Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005

Web tables - profile of undergraduate students: trends from selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08

Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007

A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners

Which achievement gap?

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

The 2010 Brown Center report on American education

Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college

Quick stats fact sheet: High schools in the United States

College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention

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

Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream

Understanding the common core state standards

New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

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

Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students

The National Indian Education Study

Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF)

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

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

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

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

The Network on Transitions to Adulthood

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

America's private public schools

Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

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

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

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete

The Condition of Education 2010

The workplace realities

The achievement gap where you live

National Center on Intervention: RTI state database

Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)

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

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation

The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs

Education Trust-West

Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint

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

Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college

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

Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt