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Author(s):The Rethinking Student Aid Study Group
Title:Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Source:http://professionals.collegeboard.com/policy-ad...
Date:2008
Organization:College Board
Short Description:The Rethinking Student Aid study group, convened to design a federal financial aid system that increases enrollment and success rates for low- and moderate-income students, has released its reports in four documents.
Annotation:The Rethinking Student Aid study group, convened to design a federal financial aid system that increases enrollment and success rates for low- and moderate-income students, has released its reports in four documents. Fulfilling the Commitment lays out an agenda for improving the effectiveness of the federal aid system in order to reduce the enrollment and graduation rate gaps between affluent students and those from less privileged backgrounds. Other documents in the report set are: * “Fulfilling the Commitment: Recommendations for Reforming Federal Student Aid in Brief” * “Fulfilling the Commitment: Summary of Principles and Recommendations for Reforming Federal Student Aid” * “The Effectiveness of Student Aid Policies: What the Research Tells Us"
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College Access
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Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
Low-Income Students

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Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Improving community college success
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Federal Student Aid strategic plan: FY 2011-15
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Web tables - trends in undergraduate stafford loan borrowing: 1989-90 to 2007-08
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Web tables - trends in graduate borrowing: selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Trends in student financing of undergraduate education: Selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
How college pricing undermines financial aid
Student success in higher education
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
Slip sliding away: An anxious public talks about today's economy and the American Dream
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education
Leveraging data for college completion
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07
Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Boosting postsecondary education performance
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Cohort default rates in context
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process
Common measures for college access and success
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Regardless of the cost, college still matters
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Cracking the credit hour
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
Digest of Education Statistics
Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana
Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
Who graduates in California?
Orphan Foundation of America
Low-income students and college success: More than money
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Access to success initiative
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success
Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization
Federal Pell Grants: Implications of increasing the maximum reward
Catching the Dream
Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001
College learning for the new global century
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Returning to our roots: Student access
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Feasibility of a student unit record system within the integrated postsecondary education data system
Improving educational opportunties for students who work
Latinos in graduate education
Doors of opportunity opening or closing: We are using tax credits and tuition discounts to appease middle-class voters instead of expanding educational opportunity
Does public funding for higher education matter?
The art of student retention
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students
Internet inequalities: Financial aid, the internet, and low-income students
Expanding college access: The impact of state finance strategies
Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.
2003 status report on the Pell grant program
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
It’s all relative: The role of parents in college financing and enrollment
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
College success programs
Financial aid: A shared agenda to achieve access and success for under-served students
Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector
Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel
Does money matter? II
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
IDA Pays: Examining the potential of education IDAs
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
The Canadian student financial aid system: The case for modernization
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Financial education in TRIO programs
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Leadership to enhance college access and success
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
Financial aid in theory and practice
Opportunity.gov
Deciding on postsecondary education
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
English-Spanish glossary of student financial aid and postsecondary education
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
More student success: A systemic solution
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Gateway to College
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
A brief history of veterans' education benefits and their value
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda
An overview of tax benefits for higher education expenses
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams
2007-08 National postsecondary student aid study (NPSAS:08): Student financial aid estimates for 2007-08
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Summer Search
Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009
The public realities of private student loans
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Quick facts about financial aid and community colleges, 2007-08
Rethinking the middleman: Federal student loan guarantee agencies
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
The breaking through practice guide
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
Paying for college: Students from middle-income backgrounds
The effects of public support on college attainment
Complete College America
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
CollegeFish.org
Measuring the effectiveness of student assistance - Annual report 2006
Do Perceptions Matter Regarding the Costs and Benefits of a Post-Secondary Education?
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
Report on student debt: Canadian college student survey and Canadian undergraduate survey consortium
Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education
Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
An analysis of section 529 college savings and prepaid tuition plans
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
Education & the military spouse: The long road to success
Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
Public institution and university system financial conditions survey
Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education
Access and persistence: Fall 2009
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Paying for college: Changes between 1990 and 2000 for full-time dependent undergraduates
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Private loans and choice in financing higher education
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth
USA Funds
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
How families of low- and middle-income undergraduates pay for college: Full-time dependent students in 1999-2000
2003 Status report on the federal education loan programs
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
Trends in student aid 2003
The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer
When saving means losing: Weighing the benefits of college-savings plans
The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt
Meeting the access challenge: Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars program
Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states
Discounting toward disaster: Tuition discounting, college finances, and enrollments of low-income undergraduates
Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability
Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)
Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century
Cal-SOAP
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges
What students pay for college: Changes in net price of college attendance between 1992-93 and 1999-2000
Federal student loan debt:1993-2004
State higher education finance: FY 2004
Lumina Foundation focus: Dreams detoured: Rising college costs alter plans and threaten futures
Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
Workbook of state affordability rates 2004
Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Trends in college pricing 2006
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research
Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act
The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana
Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary
Tuition discounting: Not just a private college practice
NDSFA: The financial aid partnership
Latinos in undergraduate education
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Boosters, brokers, and bridges: Real world ideas for college access programs
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
College access and tax credits
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Federal student aid need analysis: Background and selected simplification issues
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook
Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
Student debt: Bigger and bigger
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
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
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes
Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices
Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
Indiana Chafee Education and Training Voucher (ETV) Program
Helping families finance college: Improved student loan disclosures and counseling
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices
The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity
Back to school: Federal student aid policy and adult college enrollment
Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
The student loan default trap: Why borrowers default and what can be done
Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
A record one-in-five households now owe student loan debt
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices
The student debt crisis
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Why access matters: The community college student body
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Snapshot report: Mobility
Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment
Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Prison vs. Princeton
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Borrowers on hold: Student loan collection agency complaint systems need massive improvement
Repository of resources for undocumented students
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
Measuring efficiency in the community college sector
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
The EFC formula, 2012-2013
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Latino college completion: California
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Gender inequalities in education
Boosting college completion for a new economy
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Student lending's failing grade
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Affordable at last: A new student loan system
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Cohort default rate resources
A detection model of college withdrawal
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Trends in student financing of graduate and first professional education: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Still denied: How community colleges shortchange students by not offering federal loans
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
The bottom line: Ensuring that students and parents understand the net price of college
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Closing the gap between high school and college
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
What is the price of college? Total, net, and out of pocket prices in 2007-08
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Postsecondary success
The College Completion Agenda
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Financial aid at California community colleges: Pell grants and fee waivers in 2003-04
CollegeMeasures.org
How America saves for college: 2010
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2009 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2008-09, and 12-month enrollment 2008-09
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Student poll: Many college-bound students report difficulty affording a college education
HBCU distance learning 2010
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
Developmental education in community colleges
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Analysis of preliminary FY2009 2-year cohort default rates
Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Trends in college pricing 2010
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Delinquency: The untold story of student loan borrowing
College completion toolkit
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
Steps taken on the path forward
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Piling it on: The growth of proprietary school loans and the consequences for students
Community college student survey
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Everybody ready for college
Operation College Promise
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Federal education tax benefits: Who receives them and to what extent do they shape the price of college attendance?
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
The expansion of private loans in postsecondary education
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
2004/2009 Beginning postsecondary students longitudinal study
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand
41st annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2009-2010 Academic year
Scaling community college interventions
Latino college completion: Texas
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Unequal aid: Discriminatory treatment of gay and transgender applicants and families headed by same-sex couples in the higher education financial aid process
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
The price of poverty in big time college sport
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
How America pays for college 2011
Trends in college spending, 1999-2009
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
US Students in overseas degree programs: Key destinations and fields of study
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges
Improving the odds for failing schools
Annual report of the CFPB student loan ombusman
Student debt and the class of 2011
Trends in college pricing 2012
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
The missing "one-offs": The hidden supply of high achieving, low-income students
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
College is affordable: A pilot study
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house
How America pays for college 2012
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
2012 Household financial planning survey
Employees in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011 and student financial aid, academic year 2010-11 - first look
Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
National student aid profile: Overview of 2012 federal programs
Healthcare
42nd Annual survey report on state sponsored student financial aid
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures
Financing graduate education: A guide for prospective students
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years
College Access: Indiana
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity
Higher education accountability for student learning
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2006
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Manchester College: Fast forward program
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
2007 Survey of parents of college-bound freshman
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Trends in student aid 2007
The national articulation and transfer network
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
Accelerated developmental education project
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
College on credit: How borrowers perceive their education debt
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Just for the kids
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
The campus-based financial aid programs: A review and analysis of the allocation of funds to institutions and the distribution of aid to students
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs
12 Ways adult students can pay for college
Accelerated learning for all
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Costs, prices, and affordability
Collegiate learning assessement project
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
California trends in student aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04
Eliminating complexity and inconsistency in federal financial aid programs for higher education students: Towards a more strategic approach
NDSFA: Fundamental assumptions and aims underlying the principles of federal financial aid to students
Evaluation summary: Montgomery GI bill program, Montgomery GI bill - selected reserve program, survivors' and dependents' educational assistance program
Grappling with the access problem
State of college admission 2007
High school counselors handbook 2004-05
Changes in patterns of prices and financial aid
Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education
Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography
On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services
College access: From the inside out
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
The feasibility of delivering aid for college through the tax system
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Access and persistence: Fall 2005
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
NCHEMS information center
The impact of demographic changes on higher education
Documenting the shift to merit
Education and correctional populations
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Taxing matters
The impact of advice on price: Evidence from research
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library
Dealing with debt: 1992-93 bachelor's degree recipients 10 years later
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses
Student financing of undergraduate education 2003-04, with a special analysis of the net price of attendance and federal education tax benefits
Merit aid and college access
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
The policy of choice: Expanding student options in higher education
Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges
Debt burden: Repaying student debt
Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice
Pell Grant recipients in selective colleges and universities
State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success
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
Student financing of undergraduate education: 1999-2000
What colleges contribute: Institutional aid to full-time undergraduates attending four-year colleges and universities
Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later
U.S. Department of Education: The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit
One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
Trends in student aid 2005
Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth
Foster care independence act of 1999 and John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program
A closer look at the President's proposal for changes in student assistance
Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds
Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education
No merit in these scholarships
Financing higher education
Debt burden: A comparison of 1992-93 and 1999-2000 bachelor's degree recipients a year after graduating
Is university education in Canada more affordable than in the United States?: A Review of the Argument Presented in The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel
Funding university education in Ontario: Ontario University applicant survey report
Deciding about post-secondary education: Hearing the voices of non-attendees
Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys
Why stop after high school?: A descriptive analysis of the most important reasons that high school graduates do not continue to PSE
Pressure points in student financial assistance: Exploring the “Making Ends Meet” database
Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Growing What Works Database
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Federal Student Aid Data Center
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management
How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae
IDAs and financial aid: Understanding the puzzle and sharing best practices
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Field guide for improving student success
The 2008 amendments to the Higher Education Act: Are we on the right track?
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Investing in their future: A survey of student and parental support for learning
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study
A new kind of student aid: Creating, implementing and assessing the Millennium Access Bursaries
Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed
Special populations: Tips for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
Putting students ahead of private banks: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibily Act (SAFRA) myths-facts
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Center on Education and the Workforce
Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together
High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Impact of college rankings on institutional decision making: Four country case studies
Federal student aid's oversight and monitoring of guaranty agencies, lenders, and servicers needs improvement
What does a college degree cost? Comparing approaches to measuring "cost per degree"
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10 (Spanish language version)
Official cohort default rates for schools
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs
Trends in college spending: Where does the money come from? Where does it go?
The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Science bound program (for Indianapolis public school students)
Trends in student aid 2008
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Indiana by the numbers
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10
Measuring up 2008
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet (Spanish Version)
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
Facts about college access and affordability
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
Academic competitiveness grants
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Federal Aid First
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
McNair scholar handbook
College For Every Student
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Diverse issues in higher education
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Fast foward: Find your place - faster
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
The fiscal impacts of college attainment
Searchable English-Spanish glossary
Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices
College.gov
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
Student persistence in college: More than counting caps and gowns
38th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2006-2007 Academic year
I-STEM Resource Network
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Calumet College of St. Joseph: Adult Undergraduate Accelerated Programs
Center for Law and Social Policy
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
The Student Guide for High School Seniors/College Students
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance
Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA)
Early intervention program and college partnerships
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
The male achievement gap in Indiana
Education Finance Council
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
Breaking through: Factsheet
Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Federal Aid First (Spanish Version)
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
Paving the way: How financial aid awareness affects college access and success
Loan forgivness for public service employees
Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers
Parent and student guide to federal tax benefits for tuition and fees for tax year 2007
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Indiana Secondary Market for Education Loans (ISM Loans)
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
State higher education finance: Early release FY 2008
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
FAFSA tips and resources for foster and unaccompanied youth without stable housing
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
The feasibility of streamlining aid for college through the tax system
Education watch 2009
My future, my way: How to go, how to pay
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Center for College Affordability and Productivity
Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs
College rankings: History, criticism and reform
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Characteristics of private student loan borrowers who do not use federal education loans
39th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
FinAid: Income-based repayment
US Department of Veterans Affairs: Yellow Ribbon Program
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
National Center for Academic Transformation
The new net price calculator for college website
Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Income Based Repayment Calculator
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
Federal School Code List
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
Maintenance of effort: An evolving federal-state policy approach to ensuring college affordability
Community College 2.0
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007
Global Skills for Global Completion
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
Student debt 101
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
False fronts? Behind higher education's voluntary accountability systems
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP)
Addressing study error in the random assignment national evaluation of Upward Bound: Do the conclusions change?
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Federal student aid for incarcerated individuals
Federal student aid for incarcerated individuals (Spanish language version)
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence
Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
Trends in student aid 2009
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
Loan forgiveness for public service employees
Getting with the program: Community college students need access to federal loans
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
How America saves for college 2009: Sallie Mae's national study of students and parents
Stronger department of education oversight needed to help ensure only eligible students receive federal student aid
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Metrics for improving cost accountability
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
2010-2011 FAFSA on the web worksheet
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Does money matter?
Canadians’ attitudes towards financing postsecondary education: Who should pay and how?
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada
Student Financial Survey: Baseline Results (2001)
Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers
Canadian college student finances: Third edition (2005)
The 2003 Ontario College Applicant Survey
A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university
State higher education finance: FY 2003
The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education
College scholarship fraud prevention act of 2000: Annual report to Congress
Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success
Policies in sync: Appropriations, tuition, and financial aid in higher education
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for 2003-04 by type of institution
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective
Workforce contingent financial aid: How states link financial aid to employment
CollegeCosts.info
National college access network
Indiana higher education opportunity data book
Early commitment financial aid programs
Education Commission of the States: Postsecondary Issues
Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04
Student aid and postsecondary tax preferences: Limited research exists on the effectiveness of tools to assist students and families through Title IV student aid and tax preferences
Undocumented immigrant students: A very brief overview of access to higher education in California
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Student financing of graduate and first professional education: 1999-2000
Student financial aid: Need determination could be enhanced through improvements in education's estimate of applicants state tax payments
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions
Indicators of opportunity in higher education
Annotated list of Pathways research, papers, reports, and other publications by focus area
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
The role of student loans in college access
Trends in college pricing 2003
Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out
Student loan forbearance and its relationship to default
Refocusing the HEA reauthorization to reflect the priorities of higher education policy analysts and researchers
Access and persistence: Findings from 10 years of longitudinal research on students
Student debt levels continue to rise: Stafford indebtedness: 1999 update
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education
Responding to the crisis in college opportunity
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
Perceptions of college financial aid among California Latino youth
Contending with financial inequality
Federal financial aid
Twenty-first Century Scholars Program
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Gender gap grows
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award
NSLDS student access: National sudent loan data system
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers
Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid
Addressing student loan repayment burdens: Strengths and weaknesses of the current system
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults
Educational needs index
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college
Lumina Foundation focus
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Early financial aid commitment: Response to Indiana's education roundtable
The state of college affordability in Indiana
More on affordability: Response to Tom Mortenson
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid volume II
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
Miles to go: Louisiana
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
Admission possible
Pell grant shares of undergraduate enrollments
Unintended consequences of tuition discounting
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Improving access to the baccalaureate
Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges
Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04
Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students
The federal government and the student aid partnership
Reclaiming the American dream
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
What works for Latino students
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Frequently asked questions about college costs
Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students
Educational opportunity for all?
AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students
Nontraditional undergraduates
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Financial aid glossary: Some terms you may enounter on the road
Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer
Don't get scammed on your way to college!
LearnMore Indiana Resource Center
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Federal student financial aid: A national profile of programs in Title IV of the higher education act
Tour of the male student mind in American higher education
What's wrong with guys?
Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families
Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Adult education participation in 2004-05
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Student loan forgiveness programs
Consolidation loans: Redesign options and considerations
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
Education and incarceration
What every student should know about federal aid
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study
Undergraduate students and credit cards 2004: An analysis of usage rates and trends
Reflections on college access and persistence
The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
National Urban League Scholarships
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Wrestling rising costs with innovation
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth
Promising practices for community college developmental education
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Alabama education quick facts 2007
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
The Breakthrough High School project
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Postsecondary education tuition and required fees in Indiana: 2007-09
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
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Funding your graduate education: Sources of information
Federal student aid: Graduate and professional studies
Lumina Foundation for Education: Adult learners
Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates
Guia de programas federales de ayuda estudiantil 2007-2008 (The guide to federal student aid)
Colorado Reports
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
2006-07 Washington state tuition and fee report
YMCA
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
Private student loans
5 Education factors in focus
2012 SREB Annual Report
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
An examination of the information technology job market
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students
"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Making college more affordable: The president's plan to lower college tuition is a good first step but more can be done
Know before you owe (student loans)
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Federal student loan interest rates: History, subsidies, and cost
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
EFC Formula, 2012-13
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Graduate enrollment in science and engineering grew substantially in the past decade but slowed in 2010
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Grading student loans
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
Project WIn-Win
The distribution of grants and scholarships by race
College Savings Foundation: 2011 Survey of parents
Impacting college-going and completion rates in your community: Taking a systems approach
The Future Ready Project
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Pat Tillman Foundation
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
College Search Database.com
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
Three policies to reduce time to degree
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
What works in student retention 2010
The degree qualifications profile
Who subsidizes whom? An analysis of educational costs and revenues
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Adult College Completion Network
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Latino college completion: Florida
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Pell Institute: TRIO clearinghouse
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
Community college and high school partnerships
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
The rise of college student borrowing
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Proposed legislative changes to the post-9/11 GI Bill: Potential implications for veterans and colleges
Student debt and the class of 2009
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
NASSGAP 40th annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2008-2009 academic year
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Understanding the working college student
Why is college so expensive?
Trends in college spending: 1998-2008: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?

 

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