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Author(s):	Education Commission of the States
Title:	Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Source:	http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/79/97/7997.pdf
Date:	2009
Organization:	Education Commission of the States
Short Description:	This ECS Briefing Memo highlights promising state approaches aimed at achieving the first goal of the Race to the Top competition "Making progress toward rigorous college- and career-ready standards and high-quality assessments that are valid and reliable for all students, including English language learners and students with disabilities."
Annotation:	Through the recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the U.S. Department of Education will conduct a national competition among states for a $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” incentive program designed to push states to improve education quality and results. This ECS Briefing Memo highlights promising state approaches aimed at achieving the first goal of the Race to the Top "Making progress toward rigorous college- and career-ready standards and high-quality assessments that are valid and reliable for all students, including English language learners and students with disabilities."
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Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

State future workforce gap summaries

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

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

Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course

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

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

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

What is "career ready"?

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

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

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

The Future Ready Project

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

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

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

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

A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

Gender inequalities in education

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

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

Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

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

Is high school tough enough?

Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color

It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years

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

8th Annual AP report to the nation

On the road to success

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

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

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

The road to high-quality early education

Western Policy Exchanges

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

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

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

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

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

Advocacy in action toolkit

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

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

School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America

Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report

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

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

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

Common core state standards alignment

A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

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

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

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

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

From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model

Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

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

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

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

The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress

Career mapping eyed to prepare students for college

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

The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts

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

Boosting postsecondary education performance

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

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

Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Research support for school counseling

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)

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

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

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

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

Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary

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

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

7th Annual AP report to the nation

Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways

State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think College Indiana!

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

A guide for African-American parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career

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

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

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

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

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

Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish

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

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

Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom

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

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

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

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

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth

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

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

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

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

21st Century skills map

RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning

Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

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

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

The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

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

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

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals

College tools for schools

College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

"Careers for the future" education program

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

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

The Equity Project

Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education

Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school

Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college

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

Deciding on postsecondary education

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

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

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas

The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood

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

The challenge of college readiness

Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

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

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children

Center on Reinventing Public Education

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief

Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators

The state of learning disabilities 2009

International Benchmarking Toolkit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges

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

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

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

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

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

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

Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement

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

The 2010 Brown Center report on American education

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

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

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

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

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

Postsecondary success

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

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

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

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

Council for Exceptional Children

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

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

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

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

Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates

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

Gold Star School Counseling

Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

Believing the College Dream (Curriculum guide for college planning)

Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement

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

Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system

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

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

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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

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

Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies

Eight components of college and career readiness counseling

Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs

Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet

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

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

Access to the future: Preparing college students with disabilities for careers

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

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

Educational needs index

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

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

Minority student achievement network

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

English language learners: Boosting academic achievement

Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform

Hoosiers on Jupiter

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

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

Schools to watch

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

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

Just for the kids

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Recent STEM initiatives

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

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

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

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

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

ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)

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

American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools

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

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools

A resource guide for adolescent literacy

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data

Colorado Reports

Preparing Oklahoma students for the future

QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college

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

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

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

Expanding learning time in high schools

Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)

A voice from the middle

Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect

Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth

Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles

Strategic directions in Indiana education

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

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

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

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

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer

Academic competitiveness grants

The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda

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

Dead ends: The need for more pathways to graduation for overage, under-credited students in New York City

Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

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

The national articulation and transfer network

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

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

What works clearinghouse: English language learners

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

The Breakthrough High School project

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

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

Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families

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

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

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Indiana campus compact

High school - Advanced placement

Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)

From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality

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

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

Career pathways: A strategy for transforming America's workforce education systems to support economic growth

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

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

Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum

Windows on achievement and inequality

State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities

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

Federal Education Budget Project

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

Early intervention program and college partnerships

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

The minds of boys

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

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

College guide for students with disabilities

High school planner: Your guide to planning for college

Distance education

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

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

What works for Latino students

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

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

College Access: Indiana

Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families

Helping Teens Succeed

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

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

EPAS®: A system that works

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

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

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

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

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

A postsecondary resource guide for students with psychiatric disabilities

Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities

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

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

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

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

Database of 21st century skills assessments

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

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy

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

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

Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations

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

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

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

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

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

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

Closing the achievement gap series part 1: Is Indiana ready for state-sponsored prekindergarten programs?

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

A summary of research and publications on early childhood for American Indian and Alaska Native children

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

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today

Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future

America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study

National forum to accelerate middle grades reform

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

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

Charting a new course for career and technical education

Linking career/technical studies to broader high school reform

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Strategic instruction model

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Pathways to College Network framework: Mutually supportive visions and complementary goals

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

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

Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused

Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs

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

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success

Getting students ready for college and careers

Education watch online

Finance and resource issues in high school reform

High school reform - Issue brief

Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

Pathways to college access and success

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools

NCHEMS information center

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

Foundation for excellent schools

High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report

National High School Center

A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth

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

Primary progress, secondary challenge

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

Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development

Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students

Achieving diversity: Race neutral alternatives in American education

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

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

The American diploma project: Overview of research

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

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

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

Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

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

State high school exit exams: A maturing reform

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

From risk to opportunity: Fulfilling the educational needs of Hispanic Americans in the twenty-first century

College planning for students with learning disabilities

African American achievement in America

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Why Algebra II?

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

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

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

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

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

Education Trust-West

Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Impact of homework on student achievement

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

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

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

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

What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)

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

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

Effective instructional strategies

How much growth toward college readiness is reasonable to expect in high school?

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

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

A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005

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

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

Retaining Teacher Talent Study

Closing the expectations gap 2010

National Center on Intervention: RTI state database

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

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

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

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

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

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

The College Completion Agenda

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

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

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

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

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

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

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

Transfer and articulation policies

The degree qualifications profile

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community

Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent

An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools

Developmental education in community colleges

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

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

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

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

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

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

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

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

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

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Progress and gaps in college preparation policy

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

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

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Meeting the invention challenge

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

The Everyone Graduates Center

From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy

How bold is "bold?" Responding to Race to the Top with a bold, actionable plan on teacher effectiveness

Closing the access gap: Does information matter?

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

Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools

The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools

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

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

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

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

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

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

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

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

College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education

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

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified

Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study

RTI Action Network

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

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

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

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

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

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

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

Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens

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

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

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

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

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

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

The future workforce of Indiana

Gateway to College

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

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

College access and success state data

Promoting work-based learning: Efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky

2012 National survey of school counselors

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

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

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences

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

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

College and career development organizer

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

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

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

SREB State progress reports 2012

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

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

Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

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

One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas

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

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

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

ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator

Data quality campaign 2012 snapshot

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

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

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

Early warning indicator systems

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

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

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

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

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

Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

The College Match Program

Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

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

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

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems

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

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

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

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

Everybody ready for college

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

False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

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

Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform

ESEA Briefing Book

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

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

End-of-course exams

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers

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

Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts

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

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

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

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

Improving the odds for failing schools

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

The economic value of opportunity youth

Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness

State responses to the increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders

Bullying and open enrollment

A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success

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

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

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

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

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

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

State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory

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

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

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

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

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals

Assessing deeper learning

Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards

Ramp-up to Readiness

From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools

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

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

Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings

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

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

State policy profiles for completion by design

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

Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates

State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement

The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications

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

Civic engagement through digital citizenship: Engaging youth in active, participatory citizenship

Five things education supporters should know about pension reform

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

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Information constraints and financial aid policy

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

Adolescent literacy

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

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

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

College Board swing state education survey

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states

Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States

Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district

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

Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs

Smart class-size policies for lean times

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

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

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

Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds

On her majesty's school inspection service

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

State aid to nonpublic schools

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

Latino college completion: State series

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

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

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

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

Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice

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

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

A portrait of school improvement grantees

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

The condition of education 2011

Shifting trends in special education

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

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

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

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

Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

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

Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)

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

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

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

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

The undereducated American

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

State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region

2011 ACT national and state scores: State reports

Latino college completion: California

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

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

When school stability requires transportation: State considerations

Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

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

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

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

Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males

Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter

Linking data across state agencies: States that are making it work

Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems

Using linked data to drive education and training improvement

MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards

Repository of resources for undocumented students

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

The complexity of college and career readiness

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

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

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

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

The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending

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

Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color

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

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

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

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

Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer

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

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

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

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

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

California State University: Early assessment program

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool

Center for Law and Social Policy

The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

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

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

Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers

Schools, skills, and synapses

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards

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

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

Evolving No Child Left Behind

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

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

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

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions

State education activities to support mission growth

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

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing

Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad

Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools

The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

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

Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture

Redefining college readiness

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

Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)

The role of guidance in post-secondary planning

And after high school? A pan-Canadian study of grade 12 students in French-language schools in minority settings: Educational aspirations and plans to pursue a career in their home regions -- Executive Summary

Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery

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

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Growing What Works Database

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

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

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

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

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

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

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness

SREB Factbook on higher education

Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education

The public realities of private student loans

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

College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy

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

Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success

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

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

Whole-school reform: Transforming the nation's low-performing high schools

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

College readiness for all toolbox

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

Family firsts: Reach for your dreams

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

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

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

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

Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs

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

Is school funding fair? A national report card

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

The impact of teacher experience

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

The nation's report card: Science 2009

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

State characteristics: Kindergarten

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

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations

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

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

Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students

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

"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies

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

Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching

No time to delay: Delivering the statewide data systems California's students deserve

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

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

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

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

2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (State Reports)

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

Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field

State policies on homeschooling

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

Mind the (other) gap: State profiles

The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk

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

Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement

A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

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

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

Children of Immigrants Data Tool

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

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

Community College 2.0

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

YourWordsToday.org

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

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

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

College going culture baseline expectations

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

Latino achievement in America

The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students

Achievement in America

Model college-preparatory curriculum

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

Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states

Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college

Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now

Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work

State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions

Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

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

TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)

Education Trust, Inc

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

Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system

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

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

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

College readiness begins in middle school

Value added: The costs and benefits of college preparatory programs in the united states

Beyond percentage plans: The challenge of equal opportunity in higher education

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

Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations

Preparing students for success in college

The adult learning gap: Why states need to change their policies toward adult learners

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

Encouraging news for college bound foster youth

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

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

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

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

Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)

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

Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured

Ohio early college high school initiative

By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

Does diversity make a difference? Three research studies on diversity in college classrooms

State higher education finance: FY 2004

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

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

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school

Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges

NDSFA: State financial aid and college access

Report of Rhode Island case study site visit

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

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching

DO-IT college planning resources

All over the map: State policies to improve the high school

Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts

Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America

High school coursework: Policy trends and implications for higher education

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

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

Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states

Online interactive kindergarten database

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

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

Teacher preparation policy toolkit

What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction

Kids Count state-level data online

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

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

American Indian student achievement in Montana public schools: Features of the achievement gap and policy prescriptions

Career academies: Impacts on students' engagement and performance in high school

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

What state policymakers should know about federal higher education policy

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

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

Catching the Dream

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

National HIRE network: Resources and assistance: Indiana

Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education

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

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

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

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

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

Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology

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

School and parent interaction by household language and poverty status: 2002–03

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

Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries

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

Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools

Policy indicators for higher education WICHE states

Building the foundation for bright futures: A governors guide to school readiness

School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study

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

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

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

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

Standards for quality online teaching

Latinos in secondary education

Learning in a new key

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

Update on advanced placement

Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world

Early college high school initiative: Brochure (2007)

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

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

The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement

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

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs

Postsecondary education options for students with intellectual disabilities

Career planning and employment strategies for postsecondary students with disabilities

Students with disabilities and access to community college: Continuing issues and new directions

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

NCLB and high schools

Knocking at the college door: California state report

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

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

What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?

What kind of test preparation is best?

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

International students and U.S. admissions tests: Exams for undergraduate admissions and placement

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

College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills

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

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

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

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

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

Latino students and U.S. high schools

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test

Preparing for college

Incorporating ACT scores into your statewide assessment

The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction

LearnMore Indiana Resource Center

Developing the STEM education pipeline

EPAS® Meets unique needs of GEAR UP programs

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

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

Institute for Educational Leadership

Twenty things you need to know about financing college

Spanish services training guide

Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992

What every college access practitioner should know: About the importance of commitment

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

All Kinds of Minds

What every college access practitioner should know about: The minds of Indiana boys

Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites

Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

McNair scholar handbook

For every 100 girls...

College For Every Student

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

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

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

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

Youth with disabilities in the foster care system: Barriers to success and proposed policy solutions

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

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

Career preparation curriculum

Ohio's career development program

A Better Chance.org

The Kalamazoo Promise

Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school

Encouraging girls in math and science

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

Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Education Commission of the States: Research studies database

The future of public education in New Orleans

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

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

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

The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

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

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

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

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development

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

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

Creating a college-going culture guide

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

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

The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families

Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game

Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system

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

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

The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007

The nation's report card: Reading 2007

National Council of La Raza