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Author(s):Shields, R., and Miles, K
Title:Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
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Short Description:This report examines nine high performing, small urban high schools, describing how they have strategically organized their resources to best meet their students' needs.
Annotation:This report examines nine high performing, small urban high schools, describing how they have strategically organized their resources to best meet their students' needs. By conducting interviews and reviewing class schedules, staffing strategies, and school budgets, the report examines how "Leading Edge Schools" carefully and purposefully make the most out of their staff, funds, and time.
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Expanding learning time in high schools
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Resource guide for action: Transforming high schools for all youth
Middle Start
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
Indian students and college preparation
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
AIM
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
Developing the STEM education pipeline
What kind of test preparation is best?
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
Our impoverished view of education reform
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school
Finance and resource issues in high school reform
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Pathways to improving practice: Data-driven pre-college outreach programs
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Creating schools that work
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Bridges to Success
Planning resources for teachers in small high schools
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
A resource guide for adolescent literacy
Rethinking high school: Five profiles of innovative models for student success
Students as allies in improving their schools
North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer
Who graduates in California?
A little now for a lot later: A look at a Texas advanced placement incentive program
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Gateway to College
EdVisions Cooperative
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
I-STEM Resource Network
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Condition of education 2008
School reform and improvement database
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Science and mathematics education indicators
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
What role do school leaders play in turning around low-performing schools?
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Center on Reinventing Public Education
The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools
Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades
The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
What do you want in an afterschool program?
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
The economic value of higher teacher quality
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
A portrait of school improvement grantees
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Response to Intervention resources for high schools
RTI classification tool and resource locator
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
Cracks in the ivory tower? The views of education professors circa 2010
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
Early college designs
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Evaluate mentoring programs
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
On her majesty's school inspection service
The economic value of opportunity youth
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
8th Annual AP report to the nation
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
Revamping the teacher evaluation process
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
The Future Ready Project
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment
TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
A first look at the common core and college and career readiness
Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community
Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
Response to Intervention policy
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Improving community college success
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
The impact of teacher experience
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Field guide for improving student success
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Background and context for equity audits
Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of comprehensive school reform programs
Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Council of the Great City Schools
Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
Retaining teacher talent: Teaching for a living
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Retaining teacher talent: Convergence and contradictions in teachers' perceptions of policy reform ideas
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
The connection between health and high school dropout
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
SparkAction.org
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
College access and success state data
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
The minds of boys
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Good Shepherd Services
See Forever Foundation
YouthBuild USA
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Flexible learning options for adult students
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Windows on achievement and inequality
HomeworkSpot
Mental health in school and school improvement: Current status, concerns, and new directions
Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
A college access contract
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Starfish Initiative
Education in the age of accountability: A research focus of the Urban Institute
Busting the myth that poor, urban schools can't succeed
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Improving math performance
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
States' progress toward high school restructuring
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Leading the conversion process: Lessons learned and recommendations for converting to small learning communities
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Accelerated developmental education project
Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices
Creating a college-going culture guide
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
Indiana campus compact
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
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
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Primary progress, secondary challenge
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
Learning by degree: Real-life stories from three early collge high schools
Project GRAD
Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
The ABC's of school-based mentoring
African American achievement in America
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Preparing for college: Building expectations, changing realities
Preparing students for success in college
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Colorado Reports
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Helping Teens Succeed
EPAS®: A system that works
Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
Standards for quality online teaching
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Making middle grades work
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Miles to go: Louisiana
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth
Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
College access: From the inside out
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
Office of Indian education programs
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Charting a new course for career and technical education
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
A study of admissions officers' perceptions of and attitudes toward homeschooled students
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors
Rethinking high school: Inaugural graduations at New York City's new high schools
What works for Latino students
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Spanish services training guide
Closing the expectations gap 2007: An annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and work
College access: A framework for systemic program development
Eligiendo una universidad (Choosing a college)
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills
Differential grading standards among high schools
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in Their Children's Education: A Guide for Teachers
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center
Sustaining focus on secondary school reading: Lessons and recommendations from the Alabama reading initiative
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A
Alabama education quick facts 2007
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
Counseling and college counseling in America’s high schools
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
College readiness begins in middle school
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Pre-college outreach programs for low-income students: A literature review
Encouraging news for college bound foster youth
Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Latino achievement in America
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
First generation college students: A literature review
Who goes to college? High school context, academic preparation, the college choice process, and college attendance
The mentoring of disadvantaged youth
The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Overcoming obstacles to preparing for college: Perspectives from a rural Upward Bound program
Early college high school initiative
GEAR UP
Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south
Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006
The student debt dilemma: Debt aversion as a barrier to college access
Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs use data to make decisions
Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students
Getting ready for college: What student engagement data can tell us
What we can learn from high school students
Students as allies in improving their schools: A report on work in progress
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Telling your story: A toolkit for marketing urban education
Peak experiences
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
American student achievement institute
Ohio early college high school initiative
An overview: Early college high school
Summary of Indiana policy environment to support and sustain early college high schools
College access: Results from a survey of low-income teens and parents
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
Horace
Knowledge is power program
Minority student achievement network
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
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
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards
What works clearinghouse: Middle school math
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
The national articulation and transfer network
Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
25 Steps to effective developmental education
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Teaching all students to high standards in mixed-ability classrooms
The Breakthrough High School project
Retooling career and technical education
Career preparation curriculum
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Houston, do we really have a problem here?
Quality counts 2008
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
New teacher support pays off: A return on investment for educators and kids
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
Middle-class schools for all
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
College planning resource directory
All Kinds of Minds
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
What every college access practitioner should know: About the importance of commitment
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
College tools for schools
Indiana by the numbers
The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap
Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools
Black Alliance for Educational Options
Commonwealth Corporation
National League of Cities
Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges, and long-range plans
Anderson University: ADVANCE
McNair scholar handbook
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Connecting schools, families, and communities: Stories and results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education investments
Strengthening state policies to increase the education and skills of low-wage workers
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Solutions for America: Dropout prevention
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
Evidence-based dropout prevention programs
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 financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
What does research say about 21st century skills?
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Ready by 21
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Empowering effective teachers: Strategies for implementing reforms
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Retaining teacher talent: The view from Generation Y
Retaining Teacher Talent Study
College InSight
Family factors and student outcomes
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Addressing study error in the random assignment national evaluation of Upward Bound: Do the conclusions change?
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Campaign for High School Equity
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
National Center for Summer Learning
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Preparation for college admissions exams
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
2008 College-bound seniors
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
Student Success Skills
College readiness for all toolbox
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Teacher and staff activities to create a college-going culture
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
P-20 governance
The nation's report card: Science 2009
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Gender inequalities in education
The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
The condition of education 2011
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Planning a school-based mentoring program
Research support for school counseling
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:
Afterschool: A high school dropout prevention tool
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
Developmental education in community colleges
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Five ways education pays initiative
We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Operation Military Kids
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Scaling community college interventions
IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education
More time for learning: Student participation in extended day programming at the UCCS Donoghue campus during the 2009-10 school year
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Operation College Promise
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Civic engagement through digital citizenship: Engaging youth in active, participatory citizenship
Redefining your success: The role of adolescent connectedness in demonstrating mentoring impact
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession
College and career development organizer
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
The first year of high school
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere