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Earning College Credit in High School: Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate Programs

High School

Improving Postsecondary Student Success

Low-Income Students

Minority/Race/Ethnicity

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Preparation/College Readiness

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Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams

On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment

Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools

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

Gateway to College

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

Getting ready for success: Bridging the gap between high school and college in Tacoma, Washington

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

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

College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy

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

The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

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

It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools

Pathways to college access and success

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

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

The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

8th Annual AP report to the nation

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Center for native education

Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college

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

Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

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

Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

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

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

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

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

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

The early college high school: The initiative at a glance

Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students

Accelerated learning for all

Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness

Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education

Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state

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

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

Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains

Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future

Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

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

Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students

Postsecondary success

College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes

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

Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers

Making high school students into "college material"

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)

6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs

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

Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs

7th Annual AP report to the nation

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

Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school

The economic value of opportunity youth

National Center for Postsecondary Education

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

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success

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

Setting the record straight: How trendy approaches to college access might or might not be helping low-income students

Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college

Learning about the role of college student in dual enrollment participation

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

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

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

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

National inventory of academic pathways

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

Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success

Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students

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

Office of Indian education programs

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

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

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

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

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults

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

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas

Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools

The College Match Program

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)

Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults

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

Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism

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

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

Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit

Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices

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

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

Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?

What we know about dual enrollment

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

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

Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes

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

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary

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

Educational Policy Improvement Center

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

Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College

Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up

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

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

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

Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?

Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model

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

Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers

The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students

Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree

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

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

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools

Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified

Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs

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

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Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature

National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America

Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students

Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it

Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes

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

Early intervention program and college partnerships

Learning in a new key

Early college high school initiative: Brochure (2007)

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

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

LearnMore Indiana Resource Center

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

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

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

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

Head start on college: Dual enrollment strategies in New England

Early college high school initiative

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

Bridge Partnership

Dual enrollment of high school students at postsecondary institutions: 2002-03

Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006

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

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

Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer

Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative

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

A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success

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

Big Picture Company

Indiana University Independent Study Program

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

Indiana high school students' opportunities for earning college credit

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

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

Recent STEM initiatives

Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners

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

Getting college credit before college: The Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) and College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP®)

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Education Commission of the States: Database of virtual high schools

High school - Advanced placement

Update on advanced placement

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

College For Every Student

New England Journal of Higher Education

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years

Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future

A little now for a lot later: A look at a Texas advanced placement incentive program

Indiana University High School

Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?

Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?

A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school

Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York

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

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

Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges

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

Dual enrollment for high school students

Ramp-up to Readiness

The hidden costs of community colleges

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students

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

Transforming education in America

A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment

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

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities

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

Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community

The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion

Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

College Board AP Summary Reports: 2009

Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative

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

The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence

Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation

Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act

Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana

Indiana Dual Credit Provider Directory

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

High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)

Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

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

New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

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

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

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

The value of value-added data

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

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

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

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

Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students

Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education

The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence

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

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students

Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City

Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration

Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success

College InSight

What educators should learn from ER

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed

The breaking through practice guide

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

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

PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)

Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)

The Condition of Education 2010

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis

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

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

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

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

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions

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

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

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

Everybody ready for college

Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures

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

A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students

Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)

Improving community college success

Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program

Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

Latino college completion: California

Gender inequalities in education

The undereducated American

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

High school-to-college policy study: Project summary

Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

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

Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools

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

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

Official cohort default rates for schools

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals

Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

Summer Search

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

A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all

Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities

Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates

Education Commission of the States: Research studies database

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

Ivy Tech programs: Fast track to college and double up for college

College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education

The national articulation and transfer network

Early college high school: Opportunity for a lifetime

Resources for intermediaries: Developing a budget for early college

The Breakthrough High School project

Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

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

Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future

Engaging students, challenging the odds

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

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

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

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

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

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

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

CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Advanced placement information

Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs

Dual Credit in Indiana - 2005

The lost opportunity of senior year: Finding a better way

Puente Project

Ohio early college high school initiative

Finance and resource issues in high school reform

Learning by degree: Real-life stories from three early collge high schools

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

The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy

From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V

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

Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges

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

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

Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts

Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

Cal-SOAP

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

The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path

An overview: Early college high school

The Gates effect

Foundation for excellent schools

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

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

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

Lesser and greater expectations: The wasted senior year and college-level study in high school

Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work

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

Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students

National college access network

Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school

School relationships foster success for African American students

Indiana Academy distance learning: 2005-06

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

Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid

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

Middle College National Consortium

Supporting high school students in the transition to college

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

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

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools

Catching the Dream

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

Helping Teens Succeed

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

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

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools

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

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

Access to success initiative

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

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

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

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

McNair scholar handbook

Starfish Initiative

Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?

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

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

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

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals

Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

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

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

Good Shepherd Services

National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8

Science and mathematics education indicators

Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

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

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

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

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years

A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

Latino college completion: Texas

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

Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable

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

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities

Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico

State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory

Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs

From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

Mobility makers

Advocacy in action toolkit

American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour

School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America

Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report

Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students

The US STEM education model (simulation)

College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success

Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males

Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges

Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule

Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges

Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions

Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics

Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges

STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005

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

How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

Portrait in numbers

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

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

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

SREB/Go Alliance

Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts

Dual credit in Indiana Q & A

The impact of adavanced placement incentive programs

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college

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

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

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

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools

The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males

Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

BC AVID: Early implementation report

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students

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

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

Is high school tough enough?

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

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

A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences

Adult college completion toolkit

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes

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

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

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

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

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

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

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

Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

Complete College America

Family factors and student outcomes

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

Community College 2.0

Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

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

Dual credit in Indiana: Policy barriers identified by the CELL high school-to-college transition project

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

What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs

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

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

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

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students

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

Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs

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

The condition of education in brief: 2005

ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways

On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006

Developmental education in community colleges

National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)

Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science

Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students

2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males

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

Closing the gap between high school and college

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools

Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era

Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?

Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0

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

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

Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

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

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study

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

Latino college completion: Florida

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students

Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?

New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED

Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

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

Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?

The role of mentoring in college access and success

The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions

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

Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance

The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

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

Community colleges under stress

Smaller Learning Communities Annotated Bibliography

Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners

Flexible learning options for adult students

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

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

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

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

Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

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

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

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

Campaign for High School Equity

Preparing for the AP test

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools

Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students

Creating and sustaining early college high schools

Who graduates in California?

National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update

Early college high schools: Ben Davis University High School

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

Indiana Core Transfer Library

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002

Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game

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

Accelerated developmental education project

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

Improving math performance

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

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

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

Evaluation of the early college high school initiative

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Distance learning and adults with disabilities

YMCA

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

Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Student African American Brotherhood

Nontraditional undergraduates

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

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

What works for Latino students

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

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

Ensuring academic success for English learners

One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

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

Financing early colleges for native youth

Miles to go: Louisiana

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

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

Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children

From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

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

Ball State: College transition program

Achievement in America

African American achievement in America

Latino achievement in America

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

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

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success

Latino youth and the pathway to college

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

Primary progress, secondary challenge

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

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

Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships

Bridges to Success

National Association of Street Schools

Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

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

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

Early college high school initiative: Core principles

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

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

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance

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

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas

"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 framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

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

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

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

It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges

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

Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

What is "career ready"?

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes

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

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

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

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

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

CPS: A leader in AP growth

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems

Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students

Academic pathways to access and student success

Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools

American student achievement institute

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Knowledge is power program

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

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

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education

The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success

Preparing students for success in college

The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities

Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students

A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars

Indiana University: Advance college project

First generation college students: A literature review

Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

College access: From the inside out

The early college high school concept: Requisites for success

Center for Student Opportunity

Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education

School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

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

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

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

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

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

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

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

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

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

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

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

School Redesign Network

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

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

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

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

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond

The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools

Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives

How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?

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

National Council of La Raza

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)

Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences

Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities

Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes

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

Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth

A Better Chance.org

School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment

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

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

College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities

Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions

Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators

Developmental Education Toolkit

Education Equality Project

Education watch 2009

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?

Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers

Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents

Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college

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

Measuring up 2008

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Students earning zero credits

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes

The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution

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

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

Condition of education 2008

I-STEM Resource Network

Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males

An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test

Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0

Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships

National Coalition for College Completion

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

The false promise of class-size reduction

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success

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

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

Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges

Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

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

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

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents

Parents' guide to student success

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

High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators

Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

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

Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda

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

Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM

Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?

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

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

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

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

Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males

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

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

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

When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

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

Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students

Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent

A first look at the common core and college and career readiness

Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways

A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools

How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college

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

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force

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

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

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

Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice

Education pays 2010

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

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

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States

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

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies

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

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

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California

Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement

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

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

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

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

Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

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

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

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

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

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

Financial education in TRIO programs

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

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

Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed

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

Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University

Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

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

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

Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

Growing What Works Database

Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships

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

A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

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

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

Adolescent literacy

Western Policy Exchanges

Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students

Why access matters: The community college student body

Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

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

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

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

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

Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals

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

Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond

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

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

Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale

The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults

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

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers

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

Insuring college failure risk

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

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

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

Pathways to College Network

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

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned

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

Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans

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

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

College readiness for all toolbox

The challenge of college readiness

Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college

The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey

Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)

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

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

Achieve Standards Alignment Tool

Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum

The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business

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

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

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

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

Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed

Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority

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

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

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses

Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

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

What does research say about 21st century skills?

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

A next social contract for the primary years of education

YourWordsToday.org

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

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system

Center on Education and the Workforce

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges

Eight components of college and career readiness counseling

A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students

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

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

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

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

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

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials

Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

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

Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state

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

Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

Community college and high school partnerships

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

Central Indiana Talent Alliance

Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?

Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas

Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education

Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges

State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities

College completion toolkit

Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions

Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations

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

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project

Hearing on non-traditional students

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

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

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

No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries

Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

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

Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08

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

Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

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

Assessing deeper learning

Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career

The Future Ready Project

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

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

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

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

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

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

Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children

The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy

Project WIn-Win

Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

Adult College Completion Network

Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms

What's it worth: The economic value of college majors

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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

Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative

Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions

Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data

GEAR UP Data: An information center of data, research, and analysis on GEAR UP

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

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

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

What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through

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

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

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

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

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

YouthBuild USA

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

College access and success state data

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

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

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

10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress

US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models

Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school

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

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

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

Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

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

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide

From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

Breaking through: Factsheet

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

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth

Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning

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

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education

Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools

Anderson University: ADVANCE

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

Kids2College

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

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program

Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

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

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

Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges

Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success

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

Knocking at the college door: California state report

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

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

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

Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education

Colorado Reports

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

States' progress toward high school restructuring

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

EPAS®: A system that works

Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study

What kind of test preparation is best?

Action plan: Educators/Policymakers

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

Preparing for college

Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices

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

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

Better outcomes for low-income youth and adults: Lessons from MetLife foundation awards

Bridge program planning guide

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

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

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

Transfer college quality and student performance

Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit

The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap

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

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors

College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools

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

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

College learning for the new global century

The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature

Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study

Charting a new course for career and technical education

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

Schools to watch

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

Indian students and college preparation

Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us

Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program

Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources

With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future

Thinking college early

Encouraging news for college bound foster youth

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth

TRIO Programs

GEAR UP

Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

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

USA Funds

Education Trust, Inc

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

College success programs

Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education

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

A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

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

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

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

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

Our impoverished view of education reform

Indiana inventory of academic pathways

SMASH Academy

Minority student achievement network

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach

Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts

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

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

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs use data to make decisions

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools

Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

Prep for prep

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity

Dual enrollment: Policy issues confronting state policymakers

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

Cracking the credit hour

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce

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

Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

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

The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners

RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency

View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

The nation's report card: Science 2011

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college

Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

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

Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

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

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

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

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

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

On the road to success

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)

It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years

12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012

Improving the odds for failing schools

Achieving the dream: Community colleges count

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

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

El Puente Project

Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program

College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds

Preparate para la universidad: A college planning guide in Spanish for students in grades 9 through 12

Strategic instruction model

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

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

Education watch online

Diversity, school, family, and community connections

Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school

Pathways to improving practice: Data-driven pre-college outreach programs

Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different

Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools

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

What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

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

The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad

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

Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce

All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps

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

How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students

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

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

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

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

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning

What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction

The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality

Lumina Foundation for Education

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

First generation students in postsecondary education: A look at their college transcripts

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

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education

The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how

The education liason model

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Talent Development High Schools

Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South

America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future

Indiana's 2006 graduation rate

Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid

Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates

Guide to creating community-based college access programs

Postsecondary transitions among Navajo Indians

Middle Start

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

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

Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment

Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies

Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education

National College Access Program Directory

Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship

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

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools

Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity

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

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

Education and incarceration

The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools

ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006

Collegiate learning assessement project

National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

Latinos in secondary education

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education

Standards for quality online teaching

College access: A framework for systemic program development

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

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

Expanding learning time in high schools

Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness

Diversity workshops: Gender equity--a closer look

African American students and U.S. high schools

Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy

Translations for success

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

Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Forging new partnerships: Adult and developmental education in community colleges

The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Why community colleges?

Hendricks College Network

Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience

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

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

What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?

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

Developing the STEM education pipeline

The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities

Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States

Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges

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

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

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

Retooling career and technical education

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

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

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio

The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools

A college access contract

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

Indiana campus compact

College admission for homeschoolers

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success

Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices

Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement

Postsecondary Access and Success

Opportunity in America: The role of education

The family: America's smallest school

Knowing and being known: Personalization as a foundation for student learning

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

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

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

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

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

If small is not enough...The characteristics of successful small high schools in Chicago

HomeworkSpot

Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs

GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage

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: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

Racial disparities and the new federalism

Encouraging girls in math and science

Indiana Chafee Education and Training Voucher (ETV) Program

Orphan Foundation of America

Academic competitiveness grants

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service

Promising practices for community college developmental education

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

The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

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

Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools

Breakthrough Collaborative

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

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

Meeting the invention challenge

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

Connected by 25: Financing housing supports for youth transitioning out of high school

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans

Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support

Opportunity.gov

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Using ARRA funds to drive school reform and improvement

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

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

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

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters

Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity

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

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

From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions

Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

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

The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students

Science bound program (for Indianapolis public school students)

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

College tools for schools

Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges

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

Sizing up state standards: 2008

Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)

Black Alliance for Educational Options

Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer

Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives

Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices

See Forever Foundation

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

"Careers for the future" education program

Diverse issues in higher education

Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers

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

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce

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

Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

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

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice

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

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

The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

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

A guide for African-American parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways

Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education

Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform

Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative

Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

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

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

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

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

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

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

Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade

How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

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

2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

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

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement

The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience

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

Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)

The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals

State policy profiles for completion by design

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

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

STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)

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

Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads

Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce

Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009

Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education

For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

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

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools

The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?

The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy

I Need a Pencil.com

Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide

An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

The nation's report card: Science 2009

Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges

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

HBCU distance learning 2010

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits

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

Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?

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

Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs

Is school funding fair? A national report card

The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

Building an early childhood professional development system

Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education

2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

Understanding the working college student

The high school senior class of 2003-04: Steps toward postsecondary enrollment

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

National Center for Academic Transformation

Afterschool Alliance

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

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

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

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Education Trust-West

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

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide

High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

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

American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success

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

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

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

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

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

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010

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

Closing the access gap: Does information matter?

Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report

Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?

The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009

Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college

Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

2009 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Family firsts: Reach for your dreams

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

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

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing

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

Overcoming doubts about online learning

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

A shared agenda: Action alert for outreach program leaders

A shared agenda: Action alert for school superintendents & middle & high school principals

Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools

Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees

Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education

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

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

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

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

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

The economic case for higher education

Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations

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

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

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

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

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions

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

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

Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook

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

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

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

College and career development organizer

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

Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan

An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

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

Learning what it takes: An initial look at how schools are using early warning data and collaborative response teams to keep all students on track to success

College Greenlight

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

2012 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education

Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

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

Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders

College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education

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

The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success

Decreasing the digital divide: Technology use for college preparation programs

Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

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

Why stop after high school?: A descriptive analysis of the most important reasons that high school graduates do not continue to PSE

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

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

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

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Advancing STEM learning across the educational pipeline: Statewide efforts in Ohio

The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges

How much are college students borrowing?

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

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

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

Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions

Redefining college readiness

The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools

Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture

Are student employment and academic success linked?

An examination of barriers to pursuing PSE and potential solutions

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Transitions -- First-generation students: A promising concept?

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research

Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary

The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)

Canada's Tuition and Education Tax Credits

State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college

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

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

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

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

Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion

Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission

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

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

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

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

Council for Exceptional Children

The connection between health and high school dropout

Improving access to higher education by promoting saving

Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

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

Project U-turn

How does extended learning time impact student achivement?

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

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

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

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

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

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table

Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together

Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)

High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

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

College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs

Understanding the common core state standards

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

The National Indian Education Study

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

Which achievement gap?

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

School connectedness and meaningful student participation

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

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

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

INSPIRED 2 IMPACT!

Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

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

On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards

Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

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

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

Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years

Student progression through developmental sequences in community colleges

Ensuring success for returning veterans

Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

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

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

Enrollment management, Inc.: External influences on our practice

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success

Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model

States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards

The impact of teacher experience

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

Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships

Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes

Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018

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

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?

Operation College Promise

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment

Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools

Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities

Cohort default rates in context

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications

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

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

Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements

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

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

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

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

Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation

The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?

Impacting college-going and completion rates in your community: Taking a systems approach

The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children

Research support for school counseling

Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates

Buying college: What consumers need to know

Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process

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

Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program

Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA

Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states

Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior

Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010

Latino college completion: State series

Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments

The condition of education 2011

Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation

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

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning

Boosting college completion for a new economy

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

Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college

Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student

Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam

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

Pell Institute: TRIO clearinghouse

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

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

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs

Adult Literacy Education In Immigrant Communities: Identifying Policy and Program Priorities for Helping Newcomers Learn English

Indiana by the numbers

Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States

The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English

California State University: Early assessment program

The cost of small high schools: A literature review

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

EdVisions Cooperative

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

A descriptive study of urban school counseling

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

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

Schools, skills, and synapses

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework

Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition

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

Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 - Education provisions

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

International Benchmarking Toolkit

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

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

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

New measures of student success in public higher education

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment

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

National Center for Summer Learning

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

Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done

The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools

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

Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century

The state of learning disabilities 2009

SREB Factbook on higher education

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

Preparation for college admissions exams

Transparency by design

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes

Enrollment status and outcomes

Economic mobility project

Economic mobility of black and white families

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials: Understanding the new students

Maintaining participation of Millennial Generation students in online learning environments

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges

Quality counts 2008

The future of public education in New Orleans

Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand

Mentors en Español

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

The Mind Trust

The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color

Programs at higher education institutions for disadvantaged precollege students

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys

Calumet College of St. Joseph: Adult Undergraduate Accelerated Programs

Oakland City University: School of Adult and Extended Learning

Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program

Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students

Project Complete

All Kinds of Minds

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

The Study Skills Guide for Students

Study Strategies

More student success: A systemic solution

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

Middle-class schools for all

Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success

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

Framing new terrain: Older adults & higher education

Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices

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

Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005

New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education

Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact

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

Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity

Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda

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

A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills

Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform

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

What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions

A postsecondary resource guide for students with psychiatric disabilities

Postsecondary education options for students with intellectual disabilities

Pathways to excellence

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

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

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future

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

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

Knowhow2go.org

New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

Differential grading standards among high schools

The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction

Relationships between EPAS scores and college preparatory course work in high school

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

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

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

Homework helper: Help your child take control

Motivating the unmotivated student

Ten ways to help your child become self-reliant

Managing procrastination: Help your child build good study habits

Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience

Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy

College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

The key to success in community college

Funding Gaps 2006

What's wrong with guys?

Opening Doors project publications

College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Project Mentor

College Access: Indiana

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum

Returning to our roots: Student access

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation

Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college

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

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

Guide for parents: Ten steps to prepare your child for college

The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics

Reading--Young children's achievement and classroom experiences

Finding the right college for you

A voice from the middle

College entrance tests

College guide for students with disabilities

High school planner: Your guide to planning for college

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

Enacting diverse learning environments: Improving the climate for racial/ethnic diversity in higher education

Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society

Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

Participation trends and patterns in adult education: 1991 to 1999

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample

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

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Correctional education facts

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

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

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

A new way on school integration

After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action

Excelencia in education

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

The career pathways how-to guide

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

Native American higher education initiative: Educating the mind and spirit

The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students

America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future

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

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

Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography

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

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

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

Turning Points

National forum to accelerate middle grades reform

Making middle grades work

Kids Count state-level data online

Mentoring sexual minority youth

What keeps children in foster care from succeeding in school? Views of early adolescents and the adults in their lives

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

Student athletes with learning disabilities: A model for effective supports

High Tech High Foundation

Big buildings, small schools: Using a small schools strategy for high school reform

Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas

Homeschooled adults: Are they ready for college

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet

Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy

Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success

Public attitudes on higher education

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success

Who goes to college? High school context, academic preparation, the college choice process, and college attendance

Detail to the key components of Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student preparation for college success

Students with disabilities: Preparing for postsecondary education: Know your rights and responsibilities

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

A summary of career beginnings impact evaluation: Findings from a program for disadvantaged high school students

Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope

Minority student retention and academic achievement in community colleges

International Baccalaureate Organization

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Career-related predictors of work-bound and college-bound status of adolescents in rural and nonrural areas

Indiana higher education opportunity data book

Indiana project on academic success

Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work

Understanding and working with students and adults from poverty

Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south

College is possible

Just and efficient college finance

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

Learning to earn

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

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

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

Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

Pre-college outreach programs for low-income students: A literature review

Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults

Preparing for college: Building expectations, changing realities

Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges

Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success

Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

Indicators of opportunity in higher education

High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice

Capturing the college potential of students from underserved populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college

The American diploma project: Overview of research

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges

Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report

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

Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions

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

Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California