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Author(s):	Achieve, Inc
Title:	Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
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Organization:	Achieve, Inc
Short Description:	The Postsecondary Connection online resource is designed to provide critical tools, data and strategies that higher education leaders need to help prepare students to enter and succeed in credit-bearing college coursework and rigorous postsecondary training programs.
Annotation:	The Postsecondary Connection online resource is designed to provide critical tools, data and strategies that higher education leaders need to help prepare students to enter and succeed in credit-bearing college coursework and rigorous postsecondary training programs. This website provides examples, case studies and best practices on how to: Help develop college- and career-ready standards; Work with K-12 leaders to align expectations for high school graduates who are entering higher education; and support and create policy efforts in states that help smooth students’ transition from high school to and through higher education.
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Curriculum/Course-taking/Rigor

Data

High School

Improving Postsecondary Student Success

P-16 (Pre K - Grade 16) Alignment and Initiatives

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Preparation/College Readiness

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Transition to College

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

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

National Center for Academic Transformation

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

Route 21: 21st century skills information, resources, and community tools

Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

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

The 2010 Brown Center report on American education

Community college and high school partnerships

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

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

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

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

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

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

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

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

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

Common core state standards alignment

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

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

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

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

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

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

The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience

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

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

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

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

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

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

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

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

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

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

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

7th Annual AP report to the nation

Research support for school counseling

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

College completion toolkit

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

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability

Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates

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

Gender inequalities in education

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

The College Match Program

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

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

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

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

Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers

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

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

State policy profiles for completion by design

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

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

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

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

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

Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

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

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

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

Postsecondary success

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

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

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

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy

Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda

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

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals

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

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

States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards

P-20 governance

End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments

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

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)

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

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

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards

Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

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

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

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

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students

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

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

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

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue

The Condition of Education 2010

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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

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

Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education

2012 National survey of school counselors

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

8th Annual AP report to the nation

Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive

Western Policy Exchanges

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

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

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

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

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

Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments

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

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

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

Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011

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

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

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

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

What is "career ready"?

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

National League of Cities

California State University: Early assessment program

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

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

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

Sizing up state standards: 2008

Schools, skills, and synapses

Making sense of data-driven decision making in education

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

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

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

Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys

IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation

Virtual Pamphlet Collection - Study Skills

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

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

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer

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

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Who graduates in California?

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

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

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

A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education

Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education

Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success

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

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

Early college placement testing opportunities in Maine

Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing

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

Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success

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

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

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

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

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

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

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

Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?

Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out

How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools

Council for Exceptional Children

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

College InSight

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

The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

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

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

The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009

Education watch 2009

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

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

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

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

Developmental Education Toolkit

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

Education Trust, Inc

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

Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform

Foundation for excellent schools

Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused

National High School Center

Pathways to college access and success

School relationships foster success for African American students

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns

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

How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students

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

The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

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

State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

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

Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report

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

Academic pathway inventories

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

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

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

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card

Alternatives to the grade point average as measures of academic achievement in college

Ten ways to help your child become self-reliant

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

A voice from the middle

College access: A framework for systemic program development

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

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

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

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

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

Recent STEM initiatives

Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

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

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

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

The key to success in community college

Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families

How are states using community-based child care to provide pre-k: State-by-state summaries

The nation's report card: Reading 2007

Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system

The Breakthrough High School project

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

ACT high school profile report: The graduation class of 2007 (Indiana)

Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States

What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges

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

Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas

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

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

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

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

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

The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007

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

Indiana Core Transfer Library

Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices

Preparing for success: How Head Start helps children with disabilities and their families

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

Homework helper: Help your child take control

Choosing smart electives: Cultivating interests, strengths, and special talents

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

College Access: Indiana

Helping Teens Succeed

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

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

New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

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

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

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

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

Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education

Transfer college quality and student performance

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

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

Women on the rise

Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

Enhancing student success in education: Summary report of the NPEC Initiative and National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success

High school planner: Your guide to planning for college

Differential grading standards among high schools

Relationships between EPAS scores and college preparatory course work in high school

The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction

LearnMore Indiana Resource Center

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

Managing procrastination: Help your child build good study habits

Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child

Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience

Miles to go: Louisiana

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

American Indian science and engineering society

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

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

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

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

Catching the Dream

The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap

Tennessee higher education commission: The case for P-16 education in Tennessee

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

NAEP high school transcript study

Strategic instruction model

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

Measuring up 2006

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

Family Education Network: Preparing for College

Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success

DO-IT college planning resources

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

High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

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

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

Getting it done: Ten steps to a state action agenda

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

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

Indiana's Education Roundtable

Achievement in America

Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now

Primary progress, secondary challenge

Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different

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

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student achievement (Powerpoint)

Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies

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

National college access network

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

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

Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education

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

Education Equality Project

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity

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

Deciding on postsecondary education

Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions

Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

Changes in Graduation Rates by State (Progress and Challenge Indexes)

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

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

Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

Redefining college readiness

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

College readiness for all toolbox

Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning

Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators

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

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

College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)

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

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

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

Indiana's Growth Model (for measuring student achievement)

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

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

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success

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

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

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

Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education

Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement

Standards in practice: An instructional gap analysis

Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education

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 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: Annotated bibliography

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

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

Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact

Child care and early education state-by-state data

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

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

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement

Orphan Foundation of America

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

A Better Chance.org

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Windows on achievement and inequality

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)

Homework Hotline

National Center for Learning Disabilities

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

All Kinds of Minds

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings

Indiana college success coalition

College For Every Student

Federal Education Budget Project

New England Journal of Higher Education

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

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

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

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

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

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Center for Law and Social Policy

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

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

Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education

2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)

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

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

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

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook

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

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

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

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

Common core state standards & career and technical education: Bridging the divide between college and career readiness

Boosting postsecondary education performance

Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment

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

End-of-course exams

What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

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

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

No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications

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

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

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012

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

Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

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

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

Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees

Adolescent literacy

A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

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

On the road to success

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning

What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs

The reality of college readiness 2012: National report

View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

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

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

Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course

Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?

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

Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)

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

Center on Innovation and Improvement

Why Algebra II?

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership

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

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

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together

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

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

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

A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

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

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

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana

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

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

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools

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

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

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

Ready by 21: Making quality count

Developmental education in community colleges

Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?

The condition of education in brief: 2005

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

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference

One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges

STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005

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

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

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

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

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

Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

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

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

The College Completion Agenda

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

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

Ramp-up to Readiness

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

Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

2011 ACT national and state scores: State reports

Think College Indiana!

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

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

The case for change in college admissions

New school year brings steep cuts in state funding for schools

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

State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform

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

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers

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

Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers

What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs

Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes

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

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

Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

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

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

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

Improving community college success

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

The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders

Boosting college completion for a new economy

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress

The false promise of class-size reduction

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

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

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

Student success in higher education

Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade

Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do parents need to know?

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

The nation's report card: Science 2009

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

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

State and local policy for reconnecting youth

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

Projections of education statistics to 2019

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

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

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

Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states

Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army

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

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

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

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

Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam

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

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

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

Latino college completion: Texas

Scaling community college interventions

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

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

Latino college completion: Florida

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

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

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

Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree

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

The condition of education 2011

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

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

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

Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment

Cohort default rates in context

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

College Search Database.com

Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education

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

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

Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

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

New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads

Operation College Promise

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

Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation

Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate

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

The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?

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

Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

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

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

High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges

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

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

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

Grantmakers for Education

Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference

Recognition and response: Pathways to school success for young children

6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports

Building an early childhood professional development system

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

Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles

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

ED Data Express

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

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

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

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

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

CollegeMeasures.org

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

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

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

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

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

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

Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?

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

Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?

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

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

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

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

Transfer and articulation policies

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

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?

How does extended learning time impact student achivement?

SparkAction.org

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Indiana's Cash for College

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

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model

College Savings Foundation

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

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

Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.

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

State test score trends through 2007-08, Part 5: Are there differences in achievement between boys and girls?

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

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

Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources

College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools

Education Trust-West

Education Bill Tracking Database

The achievement gap where you live

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

"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

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

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

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

State high school exit exams: A policy in transition

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

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

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration

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

Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions

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

Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California

Assets & opportunity scorecard

Year two of implementing the common core state standards: States' progress and challenges

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

Know before you owe (student loans)

The road to high-quality early education

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

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

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

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

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

Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention

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

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

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

The state of preschool 2011: State preschool yearbook

Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns

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

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

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

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century

SREB State progress reports 2012

2012 SREB Annual Report

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

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

Smart class-size policies for lean times

The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

Putting a price tag on the Common Core: How much will smart implementation cost?

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions

A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda

The Equity Project

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

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

Admissions in the 21st Century

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards

Ranking Systems Clearinghouse

The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Communities in Schools

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified

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

Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals

Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support

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

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

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

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

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

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

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

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

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement

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

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

K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards

GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage

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

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

Study Guides and Strategies

The Study Skills Guide for Students

Homework Center: Study Skills

Effective study skills

Study Strategies

Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

Strategic directions in Indiana education

For every 100 girls...

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

More student success: A systemic solution

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

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

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

Discovery Education Homework Help

Building community learning systems: The Columbus learning center

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

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

If small is not enough...The characteristics of successful small high schools in Chicago

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

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

Ohio's career development program

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

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

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Effective instruction: An inconspicuous strategy for dropout prevention

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

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

The Sallie Mae Fund

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

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

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

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

High school - Advanced placement

Starfish Initiative

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

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

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

A shared agenda: Action alert for school superintendents & middle & high school principals

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

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

A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials

A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:

North Carolina Early Mathematics Placement Testing

The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states

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

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

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

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

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

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

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

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

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

Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps

Gold Star School Counseling

The Center for Public Education

State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates

Children's Defense Fund State Factsheets

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

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

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

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

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

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

Complete College America

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

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done

Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide

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

Seize the moment: The need for a comprehensive federal investment in adolescent literacy

Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)

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

Family firsts: Reach for your dreams

Advancing STEM learning across the educational pipeline: Statewide efforts in Ohio

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

Field guide for improving student success

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

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

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

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

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture

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

Think again: The connection between education and true independence

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

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

Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition

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

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

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

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

Center on Reinventing Public Education

Campaign for High School Equity

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

Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

Learning Point Associates: Data for school improvement

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

Education Commission of the States: Postsecondary Issues

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve

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

Indiana inventory of academic pathways

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

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

Multiple pathways and state policy: Toward education and training beyond high school

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

Education commission of the states: Online high school policy database

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

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

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

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

State high school exit exams: A maturing reform

Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources

Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success

Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy

ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning

Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century

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

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

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

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

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

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

Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Education strengthened when treated as a seamless whole

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

Federal student aid for counselors

Bridge Partnership

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

The boys project

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

Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education

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

Online interactive pre-kindergarten database

Online interactive kindergarten database

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

National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools

Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors

Education watch online

Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid

A road map for learning: Improving educational outcomes in foster care: A strategic guide for success in school

State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06

Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education

The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates

Charting a new course for career and technical education

Dispelling the myth - online

How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006

P-16 Collaboration in the States

High Tech High Foundation

Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience

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

Are high school grades inflated?

Incorporating ACT scores into your statewide assessment

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?

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

EPAS® Meets unique needs of GEAR UP programs

Preparing for college

Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today

Distance education

Expanding learning time in high schools

Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation

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

Best practices and programs in career and technical education

Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems

A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

Latinos in secondary education

Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample

Engaging students, challenging the odds

The career pathways how-to guide

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

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

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

Policy indicators for higher education WICHE states

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

States' progress toward high school restructuring

Colorado Reports

State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data

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

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

Alabama education quick facts 2007

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

Why community colleges?

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

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

Motivating the unmotivated student

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

Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events

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

Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges

The family: America's smallest school

Knowing and being known: Personalization as a foundation for student learning

The proficiency illusion

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

Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform

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

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

Student poll: High school students want parents to be more involved in college planning

First ask, then listen: How to get your students to help you teach them better

Making writing essential to teen lives

Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07

Higher education accountability for student learning

State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices

Database of 21st century skills assessments

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

The right data to the right people at the right time: How interoperability helps America's students succeed

Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes

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

Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

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

Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice

The college search: How you can help your child

What selectivity means for your child: Understanding admissions factors

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

Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

Recommended classes: A great schedule leads to college success

Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?

Tour of the male student mind in American higher education

Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA

Should your child take a year off?: It's not the end of the world

Inside the admissions process: What happens to your child's applications?

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

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

Connected by 25: Information resource center for youth transitions initiatives

The ASCA national model

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

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

My College Options

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

Knocking at the college door: California state report

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning

Sustaining focus on secondary school reading: Lessons and recommendations from the Alabama reading initiative

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

College bound seniors state profile report tutorial

Full-day Kindergarten: A study of state policies in the United States

Kindergarten entrance ages: A 30 year trend analysis

Building the foundation for bright futures: Final report of the NGA task force on school readiness

College learning for the new global century

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

Rigor and relevance: A new vision for career and technical education

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Ensuring academic success for English learners

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

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

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap

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

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

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

Standards for quality online teaching

The context of "choice" in college pathways

States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Homeschooled students take unorthodox route to become top college candidates

Twenty things you need to know about financing college

Your senior year

State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school

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

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

What kind of test preparation is best?

Selected state data

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

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Parent-teacher conferences: Make the most of your meeting

Discover 10 ways to jump-start college planning: Help your child take the right steps, now

Postsecondary transitions among Navajo Indians

NAEP state comparisons

College results graduation report generator

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

National football league high school website: Academics

Kids Count state-level data online

Talent Development High Schools

America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future

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

Education and the economy: An indicators report

Indiana guidance report: Learn More student survey

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

National HIRE network: Resources and assistance: Indiana

Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South

The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college

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

The money manual: A personal finance guide from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund

The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap (Spanish Version)

Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Steps to success (English and Spanish Versions)

Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school

Mathematics and science education in the states

Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response

Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates

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

Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps

High school reform - Issue brief

The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention

Building a strong community partnership

Evaluating the effectiveness of technology in our schools

High School Survey of Student Engagement

What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction

On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services

AVID -- school-college transition for underachievers

Smart boys, bad grades.com

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

Access to the Baccalaureate initiative: A clear path to college

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Residence and migration for college freshmen for Indiana

Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education

Does public funding for higher education matter?

What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program

Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement

Involving parents

College guidance

Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates

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

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality

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

Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class

Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce

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

The challenge of access and persistence

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

Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs

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

Measuring up 2004

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

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

Ready or not: Creating a high school diploma that counts

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

Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy

State Scholars Initiative

NAEP state profiles: The nation's report card

State higher education finance: FY 2003

Latino achievement in America

Foster youth: Model programs

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

State higher education finance: FY 2004

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

National center for public policy and higher education

Measuring up on college-level learning

Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)

College preparation information from Peterson's Education Center

Forum for youth investment

KnowledgeWorks Foundation

Academic pathways to access and student success

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

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

Head start on college: Dual enrollment strategies in New England

Reading between the lines: What ACT reveals about college readiness in reading

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006

2004 Public opinion survey on education in Indiana

By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment

Indiana University Independent Study Program

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

College Mentors for Kids

Postsecondary education opportunity

Advisory committee on student financial assistance

College is possible

Center for data-driven reform in education (CDDRE)

Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support

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

The public realities of private student loans

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy

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

HigherEd.org, Inc.

New measures of student success in public higher education

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 - Education provisions

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

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

State higher education finance: Early release FY 2008

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts

The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states

Six aspects to laying the groundwork for a college-going culture

Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

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

CollegeGrazing.com

The impact of peers on college preparation: A review of the literature

Projections of education statistics to 2018

The state of learning disabilities 2009

How do American students measure up? Making sense of international comparisons

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

Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress

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

Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems

Transparency by design

Ucan: University and college accountability network (search tool to find private colleges and universities by state)

Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools

How much are college students borrowing?

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009

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

Retaining Teacher Talent Study

Why Pathways? A Better Approach to Transforming High School Education in California

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

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

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

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

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

State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?

State test score trends through 2007-08: Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

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

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

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

The value of value-added data

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

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

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

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

10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts

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

A shared agenda: Action alert for higher education leaders

The American freshman: National norms for fall 2005

Accelerated developmental education project

Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care

Better outcomes for all: Promoting partnerships between Head Start and state Pre-K

Creating a college-going culture guide

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

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

The future of public education in New Orleans

Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning

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

Indiana's guide to paying for college

The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color

The Kalamazoo Promise

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance

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

Year end to-do list

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

The Basics of Effective Learning: Study Skills

West Valley College: Study Skills

The minds of boys

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

Comparison of Indiana eleventh-grade students who have career plans with those who don't

Learn and Serve America

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

Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives

Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

Indiana Partnerships Center

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

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

Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends

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

School funding's tragic flaw

Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Condition of education 2008

Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004

A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?

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

Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool

No Child Left Behind - standards, assessment, and accountability

Flexible learning options for adult students

Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

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

The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States

The future workforce of Indiana

Gateway to College

EdVisions Cooperative

Good Shepherd Services

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)

Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training

Evolving No Child Left Behind

The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school

Making the case for community colleges: Tools for communications advocacy

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

National School Lunch Program: State-level data FFY1989 to FFY2008

Youth transition funders group

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

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

Third grade reading policies

21st Century skills map

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

Rising the the challenge: The strategies of social service intermediaries

High debt, low information: A survey of student loan borrowers

Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Career mapping eyed to prepare students for college

Bullying and open enrollment

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

Improving the odds for failing schools

Why access matters: The community college student body

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

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

Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions

Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan

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

Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession

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

Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context

College and career development organizer

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

STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

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

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

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

Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools

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

Adult college completion toolkit

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

2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population

Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level

RTI classification tool and resource locator

New America Foundation Early Education Initiative

Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

Eight components of college and career readiness counseling

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

National Center on Intervention: RTI state database

Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

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

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

U.Select - Your Guide to College Transfer

School District Demographics System (SDDS)

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

Impact of homework on student achievement

California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)

The connection between health and high school dropout

Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project

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

Believing the College Dream (Curriculum guide for college planning)

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

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

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

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

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

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

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

The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities

Community College 2.0

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

Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?

Indiana Dual Credit Provider Directory

Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model

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

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

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends

Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states

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

Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership

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

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

The degree qualifications profile

Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education

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

Now what? Imperatives and options for common core implementation and governance

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

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

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

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

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

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

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

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

The high school senior class of 2003-04: Steps toward postsecondary enrollment

School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

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

Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?

Is school funding fair? A national report card

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

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

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

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

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

The hidden costs of community colleges

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

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

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

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

Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations

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

Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them

Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

Latino college completion: California

The condition of college and career readiness 2011

Project WIn-Win

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

Reaching the goal: The applicability and importance of the Common Core State Standards to college and career readiness

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education

Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students

The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011

Mobility makers

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

Leveraging data for college completion

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

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

AYP results for 2010-11

College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education

Early warning system middle grades tool

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly

The economic value of opportunity youth

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits

Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education

Latino college completion: State series

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

National Coalition for College Completion

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

Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative

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

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

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

A portrait of school improvement grantees

If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

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

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

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

The undereducated American

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

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

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

ESEA Briefing Book

Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons

Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09

Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010

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

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

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education

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

Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?

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

Buying college: What consumers need to know

State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11

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

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

Minority male student success programs at community colleges