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Lumina Foundation for Education
Title:
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
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Date:
2009
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Lumina Foundation for Education
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Lumina Foundation for Education has embraced a single, specific goal that will help the US address the economic and social trends clouding the nation's futue. Their “big goal” is to increase the percentage of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials from 39 percent to 60 percent by the year 2025.
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Lumina Foundation for Education has embraced a single, specific goal that will help the US address the economic and social trends clouding the nation's futue. Their “big goal” is to increase the percentage of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials from 39 percent to 60 percent by the year 2025. To achieve this goal, the nation's community colleges must be bolstered to improve student retention and success and align programs with workforce demands, adult students must be targeted to receive support to ensure postsecondarys success, and higher education must establish a clear commitment to institutional success based on the success of their students. College affordability issues must also be addressed, including increases in need-based financial aid, and better data collection to ensure high rates of college productivity.
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Accountability and Productivity (K-12)
Accountability and Productivity (Postsecondary)
Adult Students
College Access
Community Colleges
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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion
Employment and Workforce Development
Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
Indiana
Low-Income Students
National Perspectives
Need-based Aid
Non-traditional Students
P-16 (Pre K - Grade 16) Alignment and Initiatives
Persistence/Retention
Policy
Social and Economic Benefits of College/Economic Development
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Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
The degree qualifications profile
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
The future of middle-skill jobs
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Investing in lasting change: Productivity and U.S. higher education
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
New England Journal of Higher Education
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Skills2Compete
Economic state of young America
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Quality counts 2008
Orphan Foundation of America
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
First generation college students: A literature review
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Improving educational opportunties for students who work
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Prison vs. Princeton
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Community college student survey
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Latino college completion: Florida
Operation College Promise
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
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
International trends in adult education and lifelong learning
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
ACE Online Information Center
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
The College Completion Agenda
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
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?
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
The Condition of Education 2010
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
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
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
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
Closing the expectations gap: 2006
Postsecondary education opportunity
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices
Student loans and public accountability
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
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
National Council of La Raza
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Economic mobility project
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Schools, skills, and synapses
Federal access policies and higher education for working adults
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Growing What Works Database
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Deciding on postsecondary education
SREB Factbook on higher education
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Making high school students into "college material"
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Latino college completion: California
New school year brings steep cuts in state funding for schools
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
Trends in college pricing 2011
Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Making college more affordable: The president's plan to lower college tuition is a good first step but more can be done
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
California District Report Cards
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
Condition of education 2008
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Adult learners: A data and policy perspective
What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities
Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
A call to action: Why America must innovate
Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world
The real technology challenge
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Workers need training, not tough talk
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Discounting toward disaster: Tuition discounting, college finances, and enrollments of low-income undergraduates
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns
Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Engaging students, challenging the odds
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
Information constraints and financial aid policy
2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions
Measuring efficiency in the community college sector
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Everybody ready for college
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
How college pricing undermines financial aid
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
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
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Project WIn-Win
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Field guide for improving student success
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Financial education in TRIO programs
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
National Center for Academic Transformation
Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online
Grantmakers for Education
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Why is college so expensive?
Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
College Savings Foundation
Improving access to higher education by promoting saving
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century
SREB/Go Alliance
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
NDSFA: The financial aid partnership
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
The art of student retention
Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
P-16 Data systems: An alignment status report
A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
In state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
Do grants matter?
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
YMCA
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Nontraditional undergraduates
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
A college access contract
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
Economic mobility of black and white families
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Who graduates in California?
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Access to success initiative
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
The state of American manhood
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Strengthening state policies to increase the education and skills of low-wage workers
Center for Law and Social Policy
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
I-STEM Resource Network
Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Trends in student aid 2012
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
