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Author(s):	Carey, K., and Aldeman, C
Title:	Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Source:	http://www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/HigherEd...
Date:	2008
Organization:	Education Sector
Short Description:	This report describes the current state of the art in state higher education accountability and concludes with a set of guidelines for designing a model state higher education accountability system.
Annotation:	To address significant problems in affordability and student success, colleges and universities need to pay far more attention to the core task of educating their students well. This report describes the current state of the art in state higher education accountability and concludes with a set of guidelines for designing a model state higher education accountability system.
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Accountability and Productivity (Postsecondary)

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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion

Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs

Improving Postsecondary Student Success

Persistence/Retention

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Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

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

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

For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices

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

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

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

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

Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness

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

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

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

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

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

Developmental education in community colleges

The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?

The degree qualifications profile

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

Community college student survey

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

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

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

Student success in higher education

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

The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

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

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

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

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

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

How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture

The College Match Program

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

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

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

Improving community college success

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college

Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits

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

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

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

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

Three policies to reduce time to degree

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

False fronts? Behind higher education's voluntary accountability systems

Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation

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

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

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

Insuring college failure risk

Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success

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

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

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

Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission

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

Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009

The public realities of private student loans

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

What does a college degree cost? Comparing approaches to measuring "cost per degree"

Center for College Affordability and Productivity

Impact of college rankings on institutional decision making: Four country case studies

Public institution and university system financial conditions survey

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

IPEDS Data Center

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

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2008 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2007-08, and 12-month enrollment 2007-08

The Canadian student financial aid system: The case for modernization

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

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

Metrics for improving cost accountability

Growing What Works Database

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

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

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

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

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students

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

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

State higher education finance: Early release FY 2008

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

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

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

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006

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

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

The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality

The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students

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

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

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

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

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us

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

Measuring up 2008

Collegiate learning assessement project

Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

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

Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study

AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students

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

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

Just for the kids

Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

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

Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

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

Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?

Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07

Postsecondary Access and Success

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

Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005

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

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

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

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

Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana

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

Opening Doors project publications

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Preparing Oklahoma students for the future

Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA

How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04

Accounting for state student aid: How state policy and student aid connect

The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success

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

Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students

Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success

Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend

College affordability in jeopardy: The rising price of higher education

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

Informing public policy: Financial aid and student persistence

Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England

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

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

California trends in student aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04

A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices

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

State higher education finance: FY 2004

Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid

Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

Access and persistence: Fall 2005

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America

Examining college remediation trends in Indiana

NDSFA: State financial aid and college access

NDSFA: The financial aid partnership

Eliminating complexity and inconsistency in federal financial aid programs for higher education students: Towards a more strategic approach

2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states

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

Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act

Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography

Doors of opportunity opening or closing: We are using tax credits and tuition discounts to appease middle-class voters instead of expanding educational opportunity

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

Does public funding for higher education matter?

Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.

College affordability: Overlooked long-term trends and recent 50 state patterns

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

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

College success programs

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

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

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

Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges

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

Advisory committee on student financial assistance

Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works

Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

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

Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

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

The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity

College Access: Indiana

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

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

Wrestling rising costs with innovation

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

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

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

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

Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth

Policy indicators for higher education WICHE states

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

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

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

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

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Latinos in graduate education

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

Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States

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

State higher education finance: 2007

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

Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce

Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information

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

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

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

The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis

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

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

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

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

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

Condition of education 2008

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

National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations

More student success: A systemic solution

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

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

Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

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

IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle

Making high school students into "college material"

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

Financial aid in theory and practice

Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs

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

A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment

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

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

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

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

College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success

Financial education in TRIO programs

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

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

The effects of public support on college attainment

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

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams

American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success

College Savings Foundation

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

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

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

Trends in student aid 2011

Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program

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

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

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

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

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

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

Operation College Promise

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

For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions

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

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

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

The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice

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

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

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

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

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

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

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

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

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

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

2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)

Scaling community college interventions

Unequal aid: Discriminatory treatment of gay and transgender applicants and families headed by same-sex couples in the higher education financial aid process

Latino college completion: California

Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

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

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

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

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

The Future Ready Project

The case for change in college admissions

Projections of education statistics to 2019

How college pricing undermines financial aid

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

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

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

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process

Transfer and articulation policies

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

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

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

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

Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates

Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years

Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma

Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions

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

SREB/Go Alliance

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

The Condition of Education 2010

Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems

Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

Grantmakers for Education

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

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

A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

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

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

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

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

AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"

Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill

The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07

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

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

42nd Annual survey report on state sponsored student financial aid

MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries

How America pays for college 2012

Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California

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

Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

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

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

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core

The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis

Regardless of the cost, college still matters

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

Trends in student aid 2012

2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers

Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions

Tuition and fees in public higher education in the west: 2012-2013 Detailed tuition and fees table

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

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

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

Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports

The student debt crisis

Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

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

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

The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt

Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process

Adult college completion toolkit

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

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

The role of two-year institutions in four-year success

Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

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

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

Common measures for college access and success

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

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

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

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Financial Aid Shopping Sheet

Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures

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

Repository of resources for undocumented students

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect

Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

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

Survey of state tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities: 2010-11

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

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2009 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2008-09, and 12-month enrollment 2008-09

A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education

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

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

Understanding the working college student

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

Trends in college spending: 1998-2008: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?

Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09

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

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

Proposed legislative changes to the post-9/11 GI Bill: Potential implications for veterans and colleges

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

On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards

Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time

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

NASSGAP 40th annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2008-2009 academic year

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

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

Tuition-setting authority and deregulation at state colleges and universities

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

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

Getting past go: Rebuilding the remedial education bridge to college success

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

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

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

HBCU distance learning 2010

Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads

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

Community college and high school partnerships

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

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

Closing the gap between high school and college

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures

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

What works in student retention 2010

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

Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education

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

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes

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

Tuition fees and student financial assistance: 2010 Global year in review

Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know

DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed

Project WIn-Win

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

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

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

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08

Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand

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

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

Latino college completion: Texas

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

The condition of education 2011

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

Latino college completion: State series

Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior

The undereducated American

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

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs

Boosting college completion for a new economy

The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011

Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

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

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion

National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession

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

Making college more affordable: The president's plan to lower college tuition is a good first step but more can be done

Improving the odds for failing schools

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

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

Trends in college pricing 2011

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

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

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Maintenance of effort: An evolving federal-state policy approach to ensuring college affordability

Improving access to higher education by promoting saving

Global Skills for Global Completion

Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams

Student debt 101

Leadership to enhance college access and success

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

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

With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college

Access and persistence: Fall 2009

Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college

College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009

La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009 (Spanish language version)

The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes

Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP)

2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions

Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West: 2009-10

39th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

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

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

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

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

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

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

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

Does money matter? II

Is university education in Canada more affordable than in the United States?: A Review of the Argument Presented in The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel

Assessing Canada’s student aid need assessment policies

“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

College readiness and high school-to-college success

The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education

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

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Trends in student aid 2009

Stronger department of education oversight needed to help ensure only eligible students receive federal student aid

The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges

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

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

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

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

Indiana college success coalition

Center for Law and Social Policy

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

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

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

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

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

Low-income students and college success: More than money

Who graduates in California?

Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans

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

Orphan Foundation of America

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

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

Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges

The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools

Quality counts 2008

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

Opportunity.gov

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

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

Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment

Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today

National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

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

Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems

Dedicated funding for higher education: Alternatives for tough economic times

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

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

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

How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care

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

State future workforce gap summaries

Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support

Trends in college pricing 2008

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

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

Engaging students, challenging the odds

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

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

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

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

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

Costs, prices, and affordability

Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer

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

State fiscal crises and cuts in higher education: The implications for access, institutional performance, and strategic reengineering

Feasibility of a student unit record system within the integrated postsecondary education data system

Boosters, brokers, and bridges: Real world ideas for college access programs

Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students

Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities

College learning for the new global century

The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation

The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

American Indian higher education consortium

Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid volume II

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

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

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

Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers

Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas

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

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

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

Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

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

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

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

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)

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

Student debt and the class of 2006

Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

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

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid

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

2006-07 Washington state tuition and fee report

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

Financial aid awareness and college attainment

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges

Data sources for improving college access and success

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students

Student aid and tax benefits: Better research and guidance will facilitate comparison of effectiveness and student use

Financial aid: A shared agenda to achieve access and success for under-served students

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

Education Commission of the States: Postsecondary Issues

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

Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers

Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success

Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship

It’s all relative: The role of parents in college financing and enrollment

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

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

Losing ground: A national status report on the affordability of American higher education

Responding to the crisis in college opportunity

Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability

Indiana’s postsecondary indicators: 2004 performance and descriptive indicators

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

Do grants matter?

Just and efficient college finance

The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success

Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college

Report of Rhode Island case study site visit

Financial aid issues for students from low income families

Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges

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

Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education

A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

Trends in college pricing 2006

Lumina Foundation focus

Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work

Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males

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

Educational needs index

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004

Financial aid and postsecondary opportunity for nontraditional age pre-college students: The roles of information and education delivery systems

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

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

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

Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status

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

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families

Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Beyond the 49th parallel II: The affordability of university education

Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

Federal student loan debt:1993-2004

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources

By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment

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

Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges

Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college

Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities

Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment

Miles to go: Louisiana

Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

The federal government and the student aid partnership

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

An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research

NDSFA: Fundamental assumptions and aims underlying the principles of federal financial aid to students

NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good

NDSFA: Recommendations for improving federal aid delivery

State systems of performance accountability for community colleges: Impact and lessons for policymakers

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

Changes in patterns of prices and financial aid

Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education

The impact of information and student aid on persistence: A review of research and discussion of experiments

Cashing in on the GI bill

Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness

36th annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid, 2004 - 2005 academic year

State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality

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

The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain

The first year experience: Are we making it any better

Measuring up 2004

Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states

Higher education reauthorization: Issues and options

The policy of choice: Expanding student options in higher education

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

Discounting toward disaster: Tuition discounting, college finances, and enrollments of low-income undergraduates

Higher education act: Reauthorization status and issues

Designing a state student grant program: A framework for policy makers

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

Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Undocumented immigrant students: A very brief overview of access to higher education in California

College completion: Additional efforts could help education with its completion goals

Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later

Student financial aid: Need determination could be enhanced through improvements in education's estimate of applicants state tax payments

35th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2003-04 Academic year

How families of low- and middle-income undergraduates pay for college: Full-time dependent students in 1999-2000

Policies in sync: Appropriations, tuition, and financial aid in higher education

State high school exit exams: A maturing reform

Financial aid and scholarships for undocumented students

Workforce contingent financial aid: How states link financial aid to employment

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

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

Federal student financial aid: A national profile of programs in Title IV of the higher education act

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

Digest of Education Statistics

Three-year graduation rates for associate students

Federal Student Aid (FSA)

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)

Benchmarks: Indicators of effective educational practice

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

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

Colorado Reports

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

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Project on student debt: State by state data

National Council of La Raza

Accelerated developmental education project

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Tour of the male student mind in American higher education

Helping families finance college: Improved student loan disclosures and counseling

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

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills

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

Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA

Catching the Dream

How do financial aid policies affect colleges? The institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship

A few strings attached: State retention programs

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

The future of private loans: Who is borrowing and why?

Recent STEM initiatives

Consolidation loans: Redesign options and considerations

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

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

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

Student debt: Bigger and bigger

Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization

Campus-based student financial aid programs under the higher education act

Student loan forgiveness programs

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

Going to the source: A practical way to simplify the FAFSA

Accelerated learning for all

Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

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

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge

12 Ways adult students can pay for college

LearnMore Indiana Resource Center

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

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Frequently asked questions about college costs

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier

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

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Latinos in undergraduate education

Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers

2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet

2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet (Spanish Version)

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

Flexible learning options for adult students

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

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

Trends in student aid 2008

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Student debt and the class of 2007

Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10

Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

OEDb Online Education Database

10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress

Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation

Institutions with approved programs for veterans to receive educational benefits

Indiana higher education facts

Trends in college spending: Where does the money come from? Where does it go?

2007-08 National postsecondary student aid study (NPSAS:08): Student financial aid estimates for 2007-08

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

Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs

Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10 (Spanish language version)

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states

Federal student aid's oversight and monitoring of guaranty agencies, lenders, and servicers needs improvement

Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success

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

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

A college access contract

State-level high school improvement systems checklist

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

Academic competitiveness grants

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

Manchester College: Fast forward program

Indiana's guide to paying for college

Education Finance Council

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

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

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

Windows on achievement and inequality

Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

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

What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers

ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely

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

Diverse issues in higher education

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

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

The economics of higher education access in Indiana

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

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

Fast foward: Find your place - faster

Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning

The male achievement gap in Indiana

What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

The 2008 amendments to the Higher Education Act: Are we on the right track?

Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college

Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007

Funding university education in Ontario: Ontario University applicant survey report

Measuring the effectiveness of student assistance - Annual report 2006

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university

Student debt and the class of 2008

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

Higher Education Price Index (HEPI)

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

IDA Pays: Examining the potential of education IDAs

IDAs and financial aid: Understanding the puzzle and sharing best practices

New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design

Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students

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

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

Characteristics of private student loan borrowers who do not use federal education loans

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

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

The dreaded "P" word: An examination of productivity in public postsecondary education

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

US Department of Veterans Affairs: Yellow Ribbon Program

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

High school remediation

CollegeFish.org

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

Indiana's guide to paying for college: Step-by-step tips to help high school seniors apply for financial aid

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

A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Time to Completion Web Site

Federal Student Aid Data Center

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

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

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

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

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

"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

The breaking through practice guide

Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students

Indiana's Cash for College

How youth plan to fund college

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)

Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations

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

Affordable at last: A new student loan system

Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34

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

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

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

College Search Database.com

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

Lifting the fog on inequitable financial aid policies: A companion brief to priced out: How the wrong financial aid policies hurt low-income students

State responses to the increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders

Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead

Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges

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

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

Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

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

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

The economic value of opportunity youth

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

College Affordability and Transparency Center

Gender inequalities in education

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

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

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

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

A portrait of school improvement grantees

Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04

Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards

The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west

41st annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2009-2010 Academic year

Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities

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

College Savings Foundation: 2011 Survey of parents

Using linked data to drive education and training improvement

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

Student lending's failing grade

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

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

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

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

The EFC formula, 2012-2013

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

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

Why 529 college savings plans favor the fortunate

Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams

Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Trends in student aid 2010

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process

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

Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education

Who subsidizes whom? An analysis of educational costs and revenues

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

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

Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

Everybody ready for college

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009

Slip sliding away: An anxious public talks about today's economy and the American Dream

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

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

Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

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

The US STEM education model (simulation)

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

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

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

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

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education

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

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

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

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

Student debt and the class of 2009

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

Financial aid at California community colleges: Pell grants and fee waivers in 2003-04

Web tables - trends in graduate borrowing: selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

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

How America saves for college: 2010

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

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

State aid to nonpublic schools

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class

California District Report Cards

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

Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention

The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom

2011 Year in review: Global changes in tuition fee policies and student assistance

Common Core implementation workbook

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

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

National student aid profile: Overview of 2012 federal programs

What is "career ready"?

Private student loans

New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates

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

5 Education factors in focus

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

National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

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

College is affordable: A pilot study

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

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

Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house

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

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

An examination of the information technology job market

Student debt and the class of 2011

Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation

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

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

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

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

The reality of college readiness 2012: National report

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices

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

Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011; financial statistics, fiscal year 2011; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2003-2008 : First look (preliminary data)

ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology, 2012

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

National and regional accreditation information

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

The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain

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

Employees in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011 and student financial aid, academic year 2010-11 - first look

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

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

How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?

A disruptive look at competency-based education: How the innovative use of technology will transform the college experience

Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states

Trends in college spending, 1999-2009

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

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

Grading student loans

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

Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform

Is high school tough enough?

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

Borrowers on hold: Student loan collection agency complaint systems need massive improvement

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

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

The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

Web tables - trends in undergraduate stafford loan borrowing: 1989-90 to 2007-08

Is school funding fair? A national report card

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

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

Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates

Student poll: Many college-bound students report difficulty affording a college education

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

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

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

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

After the FAFSA: How red tape can prevent eligible students from receiving financial aid

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

Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

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

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

High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table

The new net price calculator for college website

A paradox of education progress

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

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

The rise of college student borrowing

How to support college-bound undocumented students: Advice for parents

What is the price of college? Total, net, and out of pocket prices in 2007-08

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

A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee

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

Adult College Completion Network

Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators

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

Research support for school counseling

Trends in student financing of undergraduate education: Selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08

Delinquency: The untold story of student loan borrowing

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

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

Presidential perspectives: The 2011 Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university presidents

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills

You can go! Educator resources

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

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

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

Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges

Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education

The state fiscal stabilization fund and higher education spending

Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education

Analysis of preliminary FY2009 2-year cohort default rates

Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education

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

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families

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

Science and engineering indicators 2012

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

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

The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation

Know before you owe (student loans)

12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012

Five things education supporters should know about pension reform

The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

State education agency funding and staffing in the education reform era

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

Data for action 2011

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

Snapshot report: Mobility

Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

Net tuition and net price trends in the United States: 2000-2009

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

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

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

Pat Tillman Foundation

Higher education spending and the state fiscal stabilization fund, part 3: State case studies

Student debt and the class of 2010

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

2004/2009 Beginning postsecondary students longitudinal study

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

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families

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

Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana

A next social contract for the primary years of education

Community College 2.0

Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04

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

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

How does extended learning time impact student achivement?

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

Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning

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

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters

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

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

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

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

Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience

Paying for college: Students from middle-income backgrounds

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals

Student loan forgiveness programs: An evolving workforce development tool

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system

A shared agenda: Action alert for higher education leaders

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

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

A framework for a multi-state human capital development data system

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

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

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

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

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

How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)

Rethinking the middleman: Federal student loan guarantee agencies

Quick facts about financial aid and community colleges, 2007-08

Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

Projections of education statistics to 2018

The productivity argument for investing in young children

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

The role and relevance of rankings in higher education policymaking

How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae

Federal student aid formula: Cost-of-living adjustment could increase aid to a small percentage of students in high-cost areas but could also further complicate aid process

Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

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

Rising by Degrees

The price of knowledge 2004: Access and student finance in Canada

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada

Does money matter?

Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps

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

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

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence

Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?

Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study

Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report

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

Canada's Tuition and Education Tax Credits

Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students

Student aid and university persistence - Does debt matter?

Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers

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

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education

Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research

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

Going2College.org

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

The minds of boys

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

The Student Guide for High School Seniors/College Students

Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA)

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

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

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

38th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2006-2007 Academic year

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

How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships

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

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

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule

Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce

Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school

Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability

Facts about college access and affordability

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report

Adventures in education: For parents

Parent primer on career exploration

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

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

Enrollment status and outcomes

Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes

Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature

Education Finance Council (EFC)'s financial literacy homepage

College Board scholarship search

The Sallie Mae Fund

Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)

Indiana Chafee Education and Training Voucher (ETV) Program

StateVoucher.org (Education and Training Vouchers)

Projections of education statistics to 2016

Tips for parents with high school teens: Countdown to college

Workers need training, not tough talk

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

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

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

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability

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

Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement

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

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

New measures of student success in public higher education

My future, my way: How to go, how to pay

From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions

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

USA Funds: Indiana state resources

A brief history of veterans' education benefits and their value

An overview of tax benefits for higher education expenses

Think college? Me? Now?

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009

Education watch 2009

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

OEDb's Online College Rankings 2009

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

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

Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

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

The future workforce of Indiana

Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students

English-Spanish glossary of student financial aid and postsecondary education

Searchable English-Spanish glossary

Parent and student guide to federal tax benefits for tuition and fees for tax year 2007

NASFAA's cash for college

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges

Paving the way: How financial aid awareness affects college access and success

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

Transfer college quality and student performance

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

What is P-16? A primer for legislators - a practical introduction to the concept, language and policy issues of an integrated system of public education

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

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

Cómo pagar por sus estudios universitarios (Financial aid guide)

Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs

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

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

How do I pay for college?

Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity

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

College on credit: How borrowers perceive their education debt

No way out: Student loans, financial distress, and the need for policy reform

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

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

Do merit scholarships promote college access? Evidence from two states

National football league high school website: Academics

Schools to watch

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college

High hopes, big debts

The feasibility of delivering aid for college through the tax system

College access marketing campaigns: Influencing college-going behaviors of underrepresented students

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

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

Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

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

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

School Redesign Network

The Breakthrough High School project

A call to action: Why America must innovate

Postsecondary education tuition and required fees in Indiana: 2007-09

The path to prosperity: A policy of investment

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

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Access to success initiative

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

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

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

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007

Trends in student aid 2007

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

New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention

Alabama education quick facts 2007

Mission: Possible!

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

Funding your graduate education: Sources of information

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

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

The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners

Lumina Foundation for Education: Adult learners

A scan of our changing environment, 2004 - 2005

Is college right for your child?: How to weigh the pros and cons

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

Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families

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

Private loans and choice in financing higher education

Adult persistence and success in higher education: A brief annotated bibliography of online resources

Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated

State data systems and privacy concerns: Strategies for balancing public interests

In state tuition for undocumented immigrants

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

Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend

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

Financing higher education

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective

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

Public attitudes on higher education

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

What colleges contribute: Institutional aid to full-time undergraduates attending four-year colleges and universities

Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education

Reframing the student loan costing debate: The benefits of competition

Foster youth: Funding for college

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

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

The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel

Indiana dollars for scholars

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

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

The impact of demographic changes on higher education

Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college

Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

CollegeCosts.info

Course corrections: Experts offer solutions to the college cost crisis

Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out

Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations

Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector

The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality

Expanding college access: The impact of state finance strategies

What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education

Debt burden: Repaying student debt

Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

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

The American diploma project: Overview of research

Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states

Trends in college pricing 2003

Trends in student aid 2003

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice

Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships

2003 status report on the Pell grant program

Federal student aid for counselors

National association of state approving agencies

GI bill: A reality check

Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Minority teacher/special education services scholarship

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems

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

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

Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students

Education and the economy: An indicators report

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

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

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Measuring up on college-level learning

Education Planner

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Access and persistence: Summer 2005

Missed opportunities revisited: New information on students who do not apply for financial aid

NASPA: Student affairs administrators in higher education

Addressing student loan repayment burdens: Strengths and weaknesses of the current system

Workbook of state affordability rates 2004

Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

Improving education outcomes for foster youth: The Guardian Scholars Project Year 1

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

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

Federal financial aid

Building toward a better future: A college planning guide for students and their families

Project on student debt.org

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students

Involving families in high school and college expectations

Contending with financial inequality

Access and persistence: Spring 2006