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Author(s):Oakes, J
Title:Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
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Short Description:This paper defines and explains the importance of seven conditions that most middle and upper-middle class youngsters from college-going families routinely enjoy in their schools and communities.
Annotation:This paper defines and explains the importance of seven conditions that most middle and upper-middle class youngsters from college-going families routinely enjoy in their schools and communities. • Safe and Adequate School Facilities • A College-Going School Culture • Rigorous Academic Curriculum • Qualified Teachers • Intensive Academic and Social Supports • Opportunities to Develop a Multi-Cultural College-Going Identity • Family-Neighborhood-School Connections Together, these seven conditions are the basis for a comprehensive, research-based framework for understanding the barriers to equity in achievement and college going and for monitoring California's progress toward removing those barriers. Examples of studies that support the importance of each condition are reported in the notes at the end of the paper.
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Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges, and long-range plans
Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap
New England Journal of Higher Education
College For Every Student
McNair scholar handbook
Middle-class schools for all
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
Starfish Initiative
Mentors en Español
Racial disparities and the new federalism
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Knocking at the college door: California state report
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
Improving math performance
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards
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
Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices
Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans
Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Latinos in secondary education
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
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Recent STEM initiatives
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Catching the Dream
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Middle Start
Schools to watch
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Indian students and college preparation
College access: From the inside out
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
First generation college students: A literature review
Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom
Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
Latino achievement in America
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Achievement in America
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
Bridges to Success
Cal-SOAP
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Prep for prep
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
Believing the College Dream (Curriculum guide for college planning)
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
Understanding the common core state standards
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
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
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Closing the gap between high school and college
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs
Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
The undereducated American
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Gateway to College
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Measuring up 2008
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Standards in practice: An instructional gap analysis
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools
College readiness and high school-to-college success
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture
Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report
The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Financial education in TRIO programs
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
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
Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes
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
How much growth toward college readiness is reasonable to expect in high school?
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
College InSight
Achievement gap patterns of grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students in reading and mathematics
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
College-going culture rubric
Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Redefining college readiness
Changing schools: A look at student mobility trends in Chicago public schools since 1995
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas
College tools for schools
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Indiana Graduation Plan Statute
Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done
The impact of peers on college preparation: A review of the literature
College readiness for all toolbox
Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning
Common Core State Standards Initiative
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
Summer Search
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
The implementation checklist for college awareness: A product of the High School Reform Strategy Toolkit
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection
The economic value of higher teacher quality
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do teachers need to know?
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
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
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
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Which achievement gap?
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
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
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
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
The National Indian Education Study
Education Trust-West
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Center on Education and the Workforce
College going culture baseline expectations
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline
Summary of Indiana policy environment to support and sustain early college high schools
The middle grades: Putting all students on track for college
Educational needs index
Pathways to college access and success
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college
Bridge Partnership
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Minority student achievement network
Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Education Trust, Inc
Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south
Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope
Public attitudes on higher education
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
Preparing students for success in college
Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Dual credit and exam-based courses in US public high schools:2002-03
Reclaiming the American dream
Educational equity center at AED
Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access
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
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
National College Access Program Directory
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Center for Student Opportunity
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action
Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study
Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Rigor and relevance: A new vision for career and technical education
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
A voice from the middle
Preparing for college
ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
A college access contract
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects
The national articulation and transfer network
Access to success initiative
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
What is a college culture? Facilitating college preparation through organizational change
ACT high school profile report: The graduation class of 2007 (Indiana)
Early college high school initiative: Brochure (2007)
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
Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
Differential grading standards among high schools
EPAS®: A system that works
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction
QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity
Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
NCLB and high schools
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
A Better Chance.org
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors
HomeworkSpot
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
I-STEM Resource Network
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
The College Match Program
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Transforming education in America
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Preparing for college: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
2012 National survey of school counselors
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
What is "career ready"?
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
The nation's report card: Science 2011
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
SREB State progress reports 2012
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Advocacy in action toolkit
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Civic engagement through digital citizenship: Engaging youth in active, participatory citizenship
The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
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
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Expanded measures of school performance
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills
Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children
Reaching the goal: The applicability and importance of the Common Core State Standards to college and career readiness
The condition of college and career readiness 2011
Latino college completion: California
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
A guide for African-American parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career
Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
College access and success state data
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Fixing No Child Left Behind
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Closing the achievement gap: School, community, family connections
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
The minds of boys
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
Kids2College
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
Programs at higher education institutions for disadvantaged precollege students
What every college access practitioner should know: About the needs of latino students and their families
White students are racially isolated
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
College planning resource directory
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Indiana's guide to paying for college
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students
Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum
Career preparation curriculum
Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Academic competitiveness grants
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Washington Data and Reports
YMCA
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
African American students and U.S. high schools
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Discover 10 ways to jump-start college planning: Help your child take the right steps, now
First ask, then listen: How to get your students to help you teach them better
Making writing essential to teen lives
Teaching all students to high standards in mixed-ability classrooms
Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
State of college readiness for Latino students
Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Indiana campus compact
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality
Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)
Improving quality and equity in education: Inspriring a new century of excellence in teaching and assessment
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
What works for Latino students
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
Standards for quality online teaching
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Effective multicultural curriculum transformation in "advanced" mathematics and "hard" sciences
Teaching and learning across the class divide
The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics
Developing the STEM education pipeline
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Spanish services training guide
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Ensuring academic success for English learners
A summary of research and publications on early childhood for American Indian and Alaska Native children
Building the foundation for bright futures: Final report of the NGA task force on school readiness
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
Voices in urban education
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
AIM
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
The segregation of American teachers
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap (Spanish Version)
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Kids Count state-level data online
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Office of Indian education programs
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
High School Survey of Student Engagement
Strategic instruction model
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
Encouraging news for college bound foster youth
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions
Who goes to college? High school context, academic preparation, the college choice process, and college attendance
Model college-preparatory curriculum
The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
National college access network
GEAR UP
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality
Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
SMASH Academy
Knowledge is power program
National Association of Street Schools
Puente Project
Preparate para la universidad: A college planning guide in Spanish for students in grades 9 through 12
Helping children move from bad schools to good ones
Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform
Need versus merit: Focusing student financial aid for diversity
Reaching parents: The role of Latino parents in their children's education
Diversity, school, family, and community connections
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era
Does diversity make a difference? Three research studies on diversity in college classrooms
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Access to the most selective private colleges by high-ability, low-income students: Are they out there?
Our impoverished view of education reform
Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002
Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for mathematics (2004)
A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for English (2004)
Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
The achievement gap where you live
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Chidren's Budget 2010
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped
College Board AP Summary Reports: 2009
Building an early childhood professional development system
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
The condition of education in brief: 2005
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
The high school senior class of 2003-04: Steps toward postsecondary enrollment
STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Enrollment management, Inc.: External influences on our practice
I Need a Pencil.com
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The condition of education 2011
Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign
Research support for school counseling
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
SREB Factbook on higher education
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Seize the moment: The need for a comprehensive federal investment in adolescent literacy
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide
College-going cultures in urban high schools
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
National Center for Summer Learning
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Community colleges under stress
Black Alliance for Educational Options
Facts for education advocates
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
Doing What Works - Research based education practices online
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
College Awareness Month: Resources for building a college-going culture
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey
Closing the access gap: Does information matter?
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports
Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Mind the (other) gap: State profiles
The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
Retaining Teacher Talent Study
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Effective instructional strategies
Achieve Standards Alignment Tool
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Early college placement testing opportunities in Maine
Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate

 

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