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Author(s):Encouragement Services, Inc
Title:CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
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Organization:Encouragement Services, Inc
Short Description:The Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) is a fully customizable online guidance assessment, reporting, and communications system designed to help counselors and other education support professionals document and respond to students' career and education needs, interests, and experiences.
Annotation:The Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) is an online guidance assessment, reporting, and communications system designed to help counselors and other education support professionals document and respond to students' career and education needs, interests, and experiences. The UEP is a fully customizable online tool that identifies students at risk and the prevalence of risk factors in a school or program. The UEP enables counselors and other education support professionals to gather and report critical data that inform guidance services, program development, and school improvement efforts. The UEP gives school counselors and other student advocates the data needed to implement an array of comprehensive guidance services that lead to college and career readiness. ESI offers the UEP at no cost to schools and education support programs.
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Career Development
Career/Interest/Learning Style Inventories
College and Career Planning (for Parents)
College and Career Planning (for Students)
College-going Culture
Counseling/Guidance
Data
Elementary School
Evaluation
Guidance Assessments/On-track Indicators/Early Warning Systems
High School
High School Graduation/Dropout Prevention
Middle School
Testing/Assessment/Standardized Test Results
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Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Hendricks College Network
Partnership for Learning
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Digest of education statistics: 2006
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
College Planning Resources
College: Making It Happen
College Access: Indiana
Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience
Choosing smart electives: Cultivating interests, strengths, and special talents
College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum
A voice from the middle
EPAS® Meets unique needs of GEAR UP programs
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
National High School Center
PREP Magazine
Twenty-first Century Scholars Program
State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Improving education outcomes for foster youth
College Results Online
Do graduation tests measure up: A closer look at state high school exit exams
Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools
The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Vocational mentoring: An experience-based career mentoring program for high school juniors and seniors at risk of not graduating
Indiana School Counselor Association
The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
USA Funds
Career inventories and related assesments
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
AVID -- school-college transition for underachievers
Finance and resource issues in high school reform
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors
Learning by degree: Real-life stories from three early collge high schools
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
College Compass
EducationQuest
The PISA 2003 assessment framework: Mathematics, reading, science and problem solving knowledge and skills
Just for the kids
KnowHow2GO
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools
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
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Sloan career cornerstone center
Stats Indiana
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
ACI net skills profiler
Keirsey temperment sorter
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
The study of implementation in school-based preventative interventions: Theory, research, and practice
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Campaign for High School Equity
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
My future, my way: How to go, how to pay
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models
Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
Indiana's Response to Intervention (RTI)
The role of the school counselor in the new era of RTI
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
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges: 2008 distance education survey results
Child trends: Education
The Everyone Graduates Center
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
2009 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
SchoolGuides.org: Transition guides for students and their families
Ucan: University and college accountability network (search tool to find private colleges and universities by state)
College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
College.gov
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
Communities in Schools
Gateway to College
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
RTI Action Network
Sizing up state standards: 2008
What every college access practitioner should know about: The early college high school initiative – Indiana plans for the early college high school for science and technologies
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Connecting schools, families, and communities: Stories and results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education investments
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
The value of value-added data
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009
College Awareness Month: Resources for building a college-going culture
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
The consequences of dropping out of high school: Joblessness and jailing for high school dropouts and the high cost for taxpayers
Council for Exceptional Children
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
Family factors and student outcomes
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Projections of education statistics to 2018
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
Gold Star School Counseling
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
SREB/Go Alliance
College Resources for Parents
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs
National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET): Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Believing the College Dream (Curriculum guide for college planning)
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
The connection between health and high school dropout
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
State test score trends through 2007-08, Part 5: Are there differences in achievement between boys and girls?
U.Select - Your Guide to College Transfer
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
YourWordsToday.org
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
College going culture baseline expectations
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
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
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Center on Innovation and Improvement
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
The achievement gap where you live
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports
Building an early childhood professional development system
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
CollegeFish.org
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
Alignment and the states: Three approaches to aligning the national assessment of educational progress with state assessments, other assessements, and standards
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
Indiana's Growth Model (for measuring student achievement)
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
State test score trends through 2007-08: Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
2008 GED testing program statistical report
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Seize the moment: The need for a comprehensive federal investment in adolescent literacy
Teacher and staff activities to create a college-going culture
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
BC AVID: Early implementation report
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
My College QuickStart
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Mapping state proficiency standards onto NAEP scales: 2005-2007
Assessment for improvement: Tracking student engagement over time (NSSE 2009 Annual Report)
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
2009 ACT National and State Scores
Learn and Serve America: National Service Learning Clearinghouse
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges, and long-range plans
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Back to College (Back2College)
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
The Study Skills Guide for Students
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Roads to Success
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
For every 100 girls...
College For Every Student
CollegeAnswer.com
Smaller Learning Communities Annotated Bibliography
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Supporting a college-going culture
Indiana by the numbers
Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Indiana Partnerships Center
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Good Shepherd Services
Parent and student guide to federal tax benefits for tuition and fees for tax year 2007
Indianapolis Star Data Central: School profile reports
Dropout prevention practice guide
Free GRE General Test preparation materials
GRE-Graduate Record Examinations
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
NCES Search for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries
NACAC Prep for college calendar
Healthy Teen Network
Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals
A closer look at the principal-counselor relationship: A survey of principals and counselors
Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
2008 College-bound seniors
Finishing high school: Alternative pathways and dropout recovery
College-going cultures in urban high schools
The state of learning disabilities 2009
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Career and employment guide for job seekers and employees with disabilities and Guide for employers: How to recruit, interview, hire, and accomodate people with disabilities
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
Youth transition funders group
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
ASCA National standards for students
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA)
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
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
Opportunity.gov
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
The impact of afterschool programs that promote personal and social skills
The positive impacts of social and emotional learning for kindergarten to eighth grade students
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Parsing the achievement gap II
Results that matter: New technology high school at a glance
Career academies: Impacts on students' engagement and performance in high school
New Technology Foundation
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
Education watch 2006 state summary reports
College results graduation report generator
NAEP state comparisons
Kids Count state-level data online
A road map for learning: Improving educational outcomes in foster care: A strategic guide for success in school
CareerClusters.org
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Career interests game
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Steps to success (English and Spanish Versions)
Graduation rates in Indiana: An analysis of various methods of caluculating graduation rates
Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment
OECD Programme for international student assessment
Federal Perkins Loan teacher cancellation
Projections of education statistics to 2015
From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges
Making good on a promise: What policymakers can do to support the educational persistence of dropouts
Forum guide to education indicators
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services
John Templeton foundation: colleges that encourage character development
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
25 best distant learning universities
National doctoral program survey, 2000
The philosophical gourmet report: Ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English speaking world
U.S. news and world report graduate school rankings
Leiter’s law school rankings
The ranking game
Miles to go: Louisiana
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
HERO (higher education and research opportunities) in the UK: 2001 research assessment exercise outcome
The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Dropout rates in the United States: 2004
DisabilityInfo.gov
America's literacy directory
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Reading between the lines: What ACT reveals about college readiness in reading
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Access to the future: Preparing college students with disabilities for careers
College Mentors for Kids
TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)
Indiana project on academic success
College readiness begins in middle school
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Encouraging news for college bound foster youth
Thinking college early
High school guidance counseling
College Goal Sunday
Indiana family college savings program
American student achievement institute
Federal financial aid
Think College Early
College guidance
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library
Reforming education in Indiana: High achievers speak out
Next step magazine
College planning center
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
The Gates effect
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education
High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities
SMASH Academy
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
College Board online college planning resources
Citizen Schools
Career academy national standards of practice
Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements
Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
Accelerated learning for all
Best practices and programs in career and technical education
Your senior year
Developing the STEM education pipeline
Preparing for college
Closing the expectations gap 2007: An annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and work
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
Indiana youth group
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
High skills and high pay: 2004 Update
Program helps at-risk students succeed
What kind of test preparation is best?
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Handling test stress: Practical tips to help your child
Selected state data
Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience
No child left behind: What it means for parents
How to Choose a College: A Guide for the Student with a Disability
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
College of Adult and Professional Studies
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
A postsecondary resource guide for students with psychiatric disabilities
Fund Your Future: Counselors' Guide
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
YMCA
Dream it! Do it!
The ASCA national model
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Colorado Reports
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Knowhow2go.org
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
Indiana Core Transfer Library
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
High school - Advanced placement
Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)
Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies
Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience
2007 ACT National and state scores
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
What works clearinghouse: Dropout prevention
What works clearinghouse: Middle school math
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
Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
Who graduates in California?
2006-2007 National directory of scholarships, internships, and fellowships for Latino youth
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site
Get-recruited.com
Indiana Online Academy
K-12 Career development curriculum framework
Career preparation curriculum
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying career exploration and planning skills in the achievement of life career goals
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
Indiana's guide to paying for college
Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
MyMajors.com
Central Indiana Educational Service Center
My Child's Future (MyChildsFuture.org)
MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
SREB State progress reports 2012
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
California District Report Cards
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
On her majesty's school inspection service
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
Getting ready for success: Bridging the gap between high school and college in Tacoma, Washington
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
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
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Accredited Online Colleges
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
National and regional accreditation information
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
Data for action 2011
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions
Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
The nation's report card: Findings in brief: Reading and mathematics 2011: National assessment of educational progress at grades 4 and 8
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Expanded measures of school performance
National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report
The Future Ready Project
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do teachers need to know?
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Steps taken on the path forward
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
7th Annual AP report to the nation
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Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles
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Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
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Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
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The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)
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HBCU distance learning 2010
Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's education at home and at school in 1999-2000
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
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Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
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Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
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Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
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Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
The relationship of individual career plans to programs of study and career pathways
Closing the expectations gap 2011
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
Student reported overt and relational aggression in grades 3-8
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
IUPUI University College
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Don't count us out: How an overreliance on accountability could undermine the public's confidence in schools, business, government and more
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
A guide for African-American parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career
A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career
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Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
A consumer's guide to going to school
P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
2004/2009 Beginning postsecondary students longitudinal study
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Principal-counselor toolkit
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
AYP results for 2010-11
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
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Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment reading 2011
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
College and career development organizer
The first year of high school
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
Undergraduate teaching faculty: The 2010-11 HERI faculty survey
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
State pre-k assessment policies: Issues and status
2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
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My Next Move
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
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Parent primer on career exploration
A Better Chance.org
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The Kalamazoo Promise
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities
Explaining financial aid
Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Career development-high school (Grades 9-12)
Indiana University High School
Indiana Virtual Academy
Career guidance: A curriculum guide for the middle level
Crafting effective career development learning standards
National dropout prevention center for students with disabilities
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
Encouraging girls in math and science
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
The proficiency illusion
Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
High school dropouts in America
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Student poll: High school students want parents to be more involved in college planning
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
Retooling career and technical education
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices
ACT high school profile report: The graduation class of 2007 (Indiana)
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Education Commission of the States: Database of virtual high schools
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
Indiana campus compact
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
Knocking at the college door: California state report
Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
Status of education in rural America
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Washington Data and Reports
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Think College
Distance learning and adults with disabilities
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Search Institute
Choosing a college major
Break down the bill: What's it going to cost?
Create a college watchlist: Track schools and requirements
International students and U.S. admissions tests: Exams for undergraduate admissions and placement
Quick-start college selection: Pick a baby-step, any baby-step
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Your child's high school counselor: Putting it all together
Discover 10 ways to jump-start college planning: Help your child take the right steps, now
Indiana college completion rates 2007
Educational Attainment in the United States 2006
College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills
Homework helper: Help your child take control
Managing procrastination: Help your child build good study habits
Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991
Relationships between EPAS scores and college preparatory course work in high school
College access: A framework for systemic program development
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Finding the right college for you
Aligned expectations: A closer look at college admissions and placement tests
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
Distance education
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Expanding learning time in high schools
State education reforms – Standards, assessment, and accountability
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)
Latinos in secondary education
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
Mentors, Inc
Project GRAD
Profiles of Indiana and US colleges and universities
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
College choice website
College Prep 101
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
Bridges to Success
High schools for the new millennium
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
National Student Clearinghouse
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Supporting parent, family, and community involvement in your school
Engaging families at the secondary level
U Links
Talbot's student planning book
Research brief: How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth grade students
Interventions for helping students at risk of dropping out of school
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Sallie Mae financial aid calculators
ACT financial aid need estimator
General financial aid resources
Getting ready for college early: A handbook for parents of students in the middle and high school years
Indiana career pathways: Four-year course plans and career academic sequences
Learn More Resource Center
Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Telling the whole truth (or not) about high school graduation rates
A summary of career beginnings impact evaluation: Findings from a program for disadvantaged high school students
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 curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
Counseling and college counseling in America’s high schools
American school counselor association (ASCA)
Advisory committee on student financial assistance
Indiana higher education opportunity data book
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006
The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the common core of data: School years 2001-02 and 2002-03
Indiana inventory of academic pathways
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Student-to-counselor ratios 2004
Indiana University Independent Study Program
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
O*NET Online: Occupational Information Network
The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature
Global university rankings
Indiana's dropout prevention tool-kit: A legislative primer
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Who's counted? Who's counting? Understanding high school graduation rates
Top law schools: Rankings
U.S. news and world report graduate school rankings - law
MBA Rankings in 2007
A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes
U.S. news and world report graduate school rankings - business
Judging the law schools
Washington Monthly College Rankings
Customized graduate program rankings
Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education
New mobility disability-friendly colleges
Ordo Ludus college ranking
National Center for College Costs
University report card navigator
Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later
Keeping middle grades students on track to graduation - Powerpoint presentation
Strategic instruction model
All over the map: State policies to improve the high school
Education at a glance 2006: OECD indicators
Education watch online
A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002
Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
State of college admission 2007
Residence and migration for college freshmen for Indiana
National association of state approving agencies
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Indiana annual state report card
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
College bound seniors 2006
ThinkCollege.net
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
The language of opportunity: Expanding employment prospects for adults with limited English skills
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Collegiate learning assessement project
Student athletes with learning disabilities: A model for effective supports
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
The condition of education 2006
Turning Points
Questbridge
CareerOneStop
High Tech High Foundation
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Education Equality Project
National Center for Summer Learning
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Using ARRA funds to drive school reform and improvement
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
International Benchmarking Toolkit
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Roadmap to RTI: Applying response to intervention in preschool settings
Think college? Me? Now?
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
Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
Indiana Workforce Development: Education and training options (search training programs)
Indiana Academic Honors Diploma
Chasing the high school graduation rate: Getting the data we need and using it right
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Education watch 2009
College-going culture rubric (checklist)
Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas
Center for data-driven reform in education (CDDRE)
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Education World career tests
Career development and guidance: Worksheets, handouts and workbooks
What are my learning strengths?
Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
Making high school students into "college material"
Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA): Returning to learning
College Assessment of Academic Proficiency
National education standards: Getting beneath the surface
Counselor's Room (Lesson plans and group activities for counselor's)
Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992-2022 (State Profiles)
Student Success Skills
ETS find a test directory
ETS resources for test takers
Praxis test centers and dates
Prepare for a PRAXIS test
Breakthrough Collaborative
Princeton Review Counselor-O-matic (beta): Best fit college search
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
State future workforce gap summaries
The future workforce of Indiana
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
National League of Cities
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
College access and success state data
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice
Paving the way: How financial aid awareness affects college access and success
The Equity Project
Ranking Systems Clearinghouse
"Careers for the future" education program
Intervention Central
Crisis prevention and response on-line clearinghouse
National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI)
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education
Ivy Tech programs: Fast track to college and double up for college
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Raising boys' achievement
Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Peace Corps: Programs for graduate students
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
National Center for Postsecondary Education
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through
Bullying in schools and what to do about it
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Anderson University: ADVANCE
Comparison of Indiana eleventh-grade students who have career plans with those who don't
Federal Education Budget Project
Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Scholarship Program
Off to College.com
Links2Go Tools & Guides to Help You Go to College
Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes
Pathways to College Network
Insuring college failure risk
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Survey of Canadian career college students, phase III: Graduate survey
Coming of age (information about educational equity audits)
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
College-going culture rubric
Family firsts: Reach for your dreams
Whole-school reform: Transforming the nation's low-performing high schools
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
College readiness and high school-to-college success
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Children's Defense Fund State Factsheets
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates
Mind the (other) gap: State profiles
Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform
A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
MastersInEducation.com: Guide to accredited masters in education, masters of arts in education, and education masters programs in the U.S
Getting ready for high school (tips for parents from the American School Counselor Association)
Understanding the common core state standards
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010
Grantmakers for Education
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Afterschool Alliance
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
Education Trust-West
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
The Condition of Education 2010
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Indiana Resource Center for Autism (IRCA)
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
What educators should learn from ER
Project U-turn
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs
The breaking through practice guide
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
What does research say about 21st century skills?
SparkAction.org
A five year comparison between an extended school year and a conventional year school: Effects on academic achievement
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Alternative schools and programs for public school students at risk of educational failure: 2007-08
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Why students drop out of school: A review of 25 years of research
Can middle school reform increase high school graduation rates?
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
University Visitor's Network
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET)
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Indiana's Cash for College
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading