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Author(s):	Campaign for High School Equity
Title:	A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
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Organization:	Campaign for High School Equity
Short Description:	This document outlines the Campaign for High School Equity's collective sense of the policy priorities that must be addressed if our nation’s high schools are to change so that all young people graduate from high school ready to work, ready for college, and ready to be knowledgeable citizens.
Annotation:	This document outlines the Campaign for High School Equity's collective sense of the policy priorities that must be addressed if our nation’s high schools are to change so that all young people graduate from high school ready to work, ready for college, and ready to be knowledgeable citizens. Its intent is to acquaint policymakers, advocates, educators, and the general public with key policy levers identified by these organizations to increase high school graduation rates, as well as the college and workforce readiness of minority and low-income youth.
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The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide

Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing

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

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

SREB/Go Alliance

The achievement gap where you live

Center on Education and the Workforce

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

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

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

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

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

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

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

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

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

The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas

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

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

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

Which achievement gap?

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

A first look at the common core and college and career readiness

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

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

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

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

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

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

Closing the expectations gap 2011

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

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

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

Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys

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

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

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

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities

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

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

Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards

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

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

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

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

The College Match Program

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

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

The false promise of class-size reduction

Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative

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

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

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

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

8th Annual AP report to the nation

Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents

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

Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color

Mobility makers

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

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

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

Advocacy in action toolkit

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

Meeting the invention challenge

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

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

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

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

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

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

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

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Deciding on postsecondary education

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

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

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

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Good Shepherd Services

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

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

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

The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors

Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools

Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

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

A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness

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

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

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

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

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

New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention

Knocking at the college door: California state report

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

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

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

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

Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men

Retooling career and technical education

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

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

New England Journal of Higher Education

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

The future of public education in New Orleans

Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

Economic mobility project

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

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

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

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

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

Engaging students, challenging the odds

What works for Latino students

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

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

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree

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

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

Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year

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

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

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

Catching the Dream

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

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

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

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

Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners

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

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind

Ensuring academic success for English learners

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

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform

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

CPS: A leader in AP growth

Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school

The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path

How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students

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

Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused

The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First

A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

Latino achievement in America

School relationships foster success for African American students

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

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

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

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

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

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

Vocational mentoring: An experience-based career mentoring program for high school juniors and seniors at risk of not graduating

Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students

Latino youth and the pathway to college

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

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

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

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity

High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch

Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens

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

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

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

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

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

The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training

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

Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men

Locating the dropout crisis: Which high schools produce the nation’s dropouts? Where are they located? Who attends them

HBCU graduates: Employment, earnings, and success after college

The American diploma project: Overview of research

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

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

College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it

Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps

Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south

Education Trust, Inc

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Educational needs index

Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence

The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments

Education watch online

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

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

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

High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education

Involving families in high school and college expectations

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

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

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

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

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

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

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

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

Charting a new course for career and technical education

Indian students and college preparation

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

Indiana's 2006 graduation rate

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

Helping Teens Succeed

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

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

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

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

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

Action plan: Educators/Policymakers

Action plan: Business/Community leaders

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

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

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

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

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

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

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

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

National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments

How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society

From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college

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

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

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

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

Starfish Initiative

Racial disparities and the new federalism

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

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

A Better Chance.org

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

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

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

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools

Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap

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

Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Database of 21st century skills assessments

Improving math performance

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

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

Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG.org)

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

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Colorado Reports

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

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

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

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

Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement

Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine

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

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice

Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies

Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

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

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

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

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

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

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

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

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

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

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

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover

The future workforce of Indiana

Community colleges under stress

Science and mathematics education indicators

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

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

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)

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

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out

How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth

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

From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs

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

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

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

Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

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

The Everyone Graduates Center

Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators

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

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

Transforming education in America

A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

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

No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile

California District Report Cards

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

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

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

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

Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data

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

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

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

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

The Future Ready Project

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

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

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

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

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

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

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

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

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

The condition of education 2011

Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

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

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

Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics

The impact of teacher experience

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

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

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

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

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

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

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

Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges

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

Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule

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

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)

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

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

State and local policy for reconnecting youth

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

Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy

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

Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

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

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

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

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

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

Education pays 2010

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

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

Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

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

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

Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education

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

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

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

Family factors and student outcomes

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

The connection between health and high school dropout

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

Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses

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

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

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

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools

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

Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs

Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005

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

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

American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report

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

High school remediation

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

Complete College America

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

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

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

Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy

Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

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

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

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

Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?

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

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

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

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

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

View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning

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

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

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

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

The nation's report card: Science 2011

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

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

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

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

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

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

Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

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

Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers

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

Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform

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

Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers

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

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

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement

High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study

The breaking through practice guide

Community College 2.0

Parent engagement toolkit

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)

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

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

America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand

Afterschool Alliance

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

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

Eight components of college and career readiness counseling

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

2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

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

Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

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

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn

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

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

The National Indian Education Study

Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete

Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community

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

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

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

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

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

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

America's private public schools

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

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

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

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

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

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

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

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

Is school funding fair? A national report card

Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closing the gap between high school and college

Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools

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

The US STEM education model (simulation)

Improving community college success

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

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

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

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

Parents' guide to student success

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

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

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

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

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018

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

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

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

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

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

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

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

Latino college completion: California

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

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

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

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

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

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

Latino college completion: Texas

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states

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

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

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

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

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

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

Adolescent literacy

Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice

2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

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

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

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

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

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

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

A developmental perspective on workplace readiness: Preparing high school students for success

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

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

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

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

On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem

Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

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

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

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

The consequences of dropping out of high school: Joblessness and jailing for high school dropouts and the high cost for taxpayers

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

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

Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture

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

Moving English language learners to college- and career-readiness

Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008

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

Closing the achievement gap: School, community, family connections

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Fixing No Child Left Behind

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

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

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

Indiana by the numbers

Facts for education advocates

College tools for schools

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

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

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

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers

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

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes

No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

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

Access to success initiative

The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities

Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans

Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices

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

The family: America's smallest school

Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models

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

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

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

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?

Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Center for Law and Social Policy

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

I-STEM Resource Network

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings

Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth

A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000

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

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Parent primer on career exploration

Encouraging girls in math and science

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

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

Breaking through: Factsheet

State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities

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

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Economic mobility of black and white families

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

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

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

Expanding learning time in high schools

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

Institute for Educational Leadership

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics

Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)

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

A voice from the middle

Why community colleges?

Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child

Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience

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

Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school

Program helps at-risk students succeed

QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

No county left behind: The persistence of educational deprivation in Indiana

In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities

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

Schools to watch

National forum to accelerate middle grades reform

Voices in urban education

Jonathan Kozol interview transcript: Source material for "Segregation and its Calamitous Effects, America's "Apartheid" Schools"

Linking career/technical studies to broader high school reform

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

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Results that matter: New technology high school at a glance

Office of Indian education programs

Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

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

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Education and incarceration

Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings

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

The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law

Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation

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

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

A new way on school integration

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

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students

Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist

Frequently asked questions regarding Indiana's new high school course and credit requirements

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Achieving the dream: Community colleges count

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

Bridge Partnership

Raising minority academic achievement: A compendium of education programs and practices

College access: From the inside out

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

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

Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education

The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana

Diversity, school, family, and community connections

High school reform - Issue brief

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

Academic pathways to access and student success

Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools

Success for All Foundation

College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds

High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities

Bridges to Success

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

National Association of Street Schools

Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

Our impoverished view of education reform

Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act

The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

A summary of career beginnings impact evaluation: Findings from a program for disadvantaged high school students

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

Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources

College is possible

A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars

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

First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

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

The early college high school: The initiative at a glance

Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States

A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success

Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students

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

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

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

Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

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

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

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

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

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

What is "career ready"?

Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations

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

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

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

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

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

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

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

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

2012 National survey of school counselors

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

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

College Greenlight

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

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

Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity

A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities

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

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Achieving diversity: Race neutral alternatives in American education

Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success

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

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

Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students

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

One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

College readiness begins in middle school

Detail to the key components of Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student preparation for college success

Lumina Foundation for Education

National college access network

Indiana higher education opportunity data book

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies

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

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

Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success

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

Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet

At what cost? The price that working students pay for a college education

Losing our future: How minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis

Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds

Thinking college early

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

Pathways to college access and success

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

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

National High School Center

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

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

Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline

The Gates effect

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform

Gender gap grows

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

High schools for the new millennium

The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts

Strategic instruction model

Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access

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

Peak experiences

What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction

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

Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student achievement

What works clearinghouse

State of college admission 2007

Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

College preparation checklist

Involving parents

Indiana's high school diploma requirements

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

Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap

Helping children move from bad schools to good ones

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

College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college

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

Career academy national standards of practice

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

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

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

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

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

National College Access Program Directory

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

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

Native American culture: Education

Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies

American Indian science and engineering society

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

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

High Tech High Foundation

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

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

Career and technical education reforms and comprehensive school reforms in high schools: Their impact on education outcomes for at-risk youth

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action

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

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

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

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

Pathways to excellence

Dream it! Do it!

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

How to Choose a College: A Guide for the Student with a Disability

Latino students and U.S. high schools

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

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

EPAS®: A system that works

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

Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience

Rescuing Brown v. Board of Education: Profiles of twelve school districts pursuing socioeconomic school integration

What's wrong with guys?

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

Choosing a college major

Dropping out of high school and the place of career and technical education: A survival analysis of surviving high school

College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education

Digest of Education Statistics

State of adult literacy

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Guide for parents: Ten steps to prepare your child for college

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

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

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

Leading by example

Bridge program planning guide

Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds

Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance

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

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

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

Latinas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools

Collegiate learning assessement project

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

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

Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes

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

Middle-class schools for all

Windows on achievement and inequality

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability

Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions

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

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction

Education Commission of the States: Research studies database

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

Race, schools, and neighborhoods: Reducing barriers to achievement

Latino students and disproportionality in special education

Career preparation curriculum

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

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

The minds of boys

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

National Center for Learning Disabilities

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program

U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Website

GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage

Condition of education 2008

Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004

Promoting student success: Indiana educational and career services

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

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

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

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

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

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data

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

National Council of La Raza

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

Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

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

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

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools

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

Focus on dropout factories: Associated press article spotlights low-performing high schools, draws criticism from many school officials

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

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

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

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

Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge

The future of middle-skill jobs

US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models

Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems

Closing the graduation gap: A superintendent's guide for planning multiple pathways to graduation

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

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

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

"Careers for the future" education program

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Smaller Learning Communities Annotated Bibliography

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

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

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

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

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

Commonwealth Corporation

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

See Forever Foundation

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test

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

School funding's tragic flaw

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

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

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

Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Making high school students into "college material"

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

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

Family firsts: Reach for your dreams

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

Survey of Canadian career college students, phase III: Graduate survey

The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey

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

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners

Gallup student poll national report

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

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

Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century

Center on Reinventing Public Education

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

Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners

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

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

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

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

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

On the road to success

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

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

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

StudentMentor.org

Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships

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

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Career mapping eyed to prepare students for college

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

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Boosting postsecondary education performance

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges

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

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

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

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

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

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

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

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

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region

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

2011 ACT national and state scores: State reports

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

Assessing deeper learning

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

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

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

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved

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

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

Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation

Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system

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

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

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

STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

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

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

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

The hidden costs of community colleges

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

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

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

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

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

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

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

Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems

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

The role of mentoring in college access and success

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

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

Latino college completion: Florida

The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children

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

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

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

States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards

I Need a Pencil.com

Community college student survey

Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary

7th Annual AP report to the nation

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

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

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

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

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

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

The condition of education in brief: 2005

Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned

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

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

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

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

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

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

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

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

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

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students

Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects

6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports

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

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

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

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

Council for Exceptional Children

College InSight

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

Believing the College Dream (Curriculum guide for college planning)

Toward reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from New York City's conditional cash transfer program

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

Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students

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

Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students

The four keys: Unlocking high school success and the path to college

The Condition of Education 2010

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

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

Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies

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

15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention

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

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

Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide

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

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

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

Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time

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

Achieve Standards Alignment Tool

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts

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

Closing the expectations gap 2010

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

Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention

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

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

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

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

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

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

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

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of comprehensive school reform programs

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

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

Insuring college failure risk

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

Financial education in TRIO programs

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

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors

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

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

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

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency

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

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

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

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

Preparing students to transition from high school to college: A review of the perceptions surrounding college and the challenges students face as they prepare for their collegiate experience

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

Framework for 21st century learning

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts

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

The economic case for higher education

Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers

Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

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

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

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

A matter of degrees: Tomorrow's fastest growing jobs, and why community college graduates will get them

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007

Growing What Works Database

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

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

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

Achievement gap patterns of grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students in reading and mathematics

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

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

Mind the (other) gap: State profiles

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

Empowering effective teachers: Strategies for implementing reforms

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

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

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

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

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

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

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

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

Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion

Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

Diploma to nowhere

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade

Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007

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

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education

A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005

Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind

Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities

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

Paving the way through paid internships: A proposal to expand educational and economic opportunities for low-income college students

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

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

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

Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

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

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation

Understanding the common core state standards

"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it

Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

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

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

STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges

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

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

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

America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents

Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition

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

Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development

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

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

A call to action to raise achievement for African American students

Everybody ready for college

Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students

Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

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

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

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

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

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

Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes

Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity

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

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

The degree qualifications profile

The nation's report card: Science 2009

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

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

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

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

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

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

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

Steps taken on the path forward

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

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

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

ESEA Briefing Book

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

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

Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA

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

Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series

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

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

Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

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

Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030

Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children

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

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

Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation

National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment

Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

2011 Kids count data book: State profiles of child well-being:

Implementing common core state standards and assessments: A workbook for state and district leaders

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits

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

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

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

Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student

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

Key considerations for serving disconnected youth

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

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

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

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

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

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

The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class

Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?

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

Western Policy Exchanges

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

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

Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

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

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

Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda

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

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

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

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

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

Early warning system middle grades tool

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

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

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

State policy profiles for completion by design

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California

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

SREB Factbook on higher education

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

Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?

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

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

International Benchmarking Toolkit

Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth

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

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

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

Are student employment and academic success linked?

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

The role of guidance in post-secondary planning

Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

Coming of age (information about educational equity audits)

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

BC AVID: Early implementation report

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

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

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

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

Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials

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

The challenge of college readiness

Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans

College readiness for all toolbox

The productivity argument for investing in young children

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

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

Economic state of young America

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

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

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

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

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

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Communities in Schools

21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide

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

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

Dropout prevention practice guide

Schools, skills, and synapses

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

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

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc. Careers for the Future Scholarship 2009-2010

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

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

A descriptive study of urban school counseling

Sizing up state standards: 2008

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

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

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

Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care

Think college? Me? Now?

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

Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond

A college access contract

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

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

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

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

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

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

Center for native education

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

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

Black college dollars: 2007-2008 Directory of scholarships for African-American students

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success

Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities

Washington Data and Reports

Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center

Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity

Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school

The first year of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Alabama education quick facts 2007

Creating a culture of literacy: A guide for middle and high school principals

Virtual schools and 21st century skills

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

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

Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education

High school dropouts in America

A call to action: Why America must innovate

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

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

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Dates, deadlines, and details: A monthly activity calendar

K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards

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

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles

Raising boys' achievement

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

Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer

Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community

Effective instruction: An inconspicuous strategy for dropout prevention

Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum

Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying career exploration and planning skills in the achievement of life career goals

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

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service

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

Enrollment status and outcomes

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

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

Indiana's guide to paying for college

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Brown at 50: King's dream or Plessy's nightmare

Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Latinos in elementary education

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

Campus diversity initiative evaluation project resource kit

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

For better science, just add color

Where are the Black scientists?

Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college

Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative

Diversity workshops: Gender equity--a closer look

Accelerated learning for all

Developing the STEM education pipeline

Preparing for college

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

College guide for students with disabilities

Distance education

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

Finding the right college for you

The key to success in community college

Funding Gaps 2006

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students

ACT high school profile report: National

ACT high school profile report: Indiana

Maintaining a strong engineering workforce

What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

Homework helper: Help your child take control

Motivating the unmotivated student

Where the scholarships are: How to develop a scholarship strategy

Can you spot a scholarship scam? Be a smart consumer

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

College: Making It Happen

Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in Their Children's Education: A Guide for Teachers

College Access: Indiana

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

Opening Doors project publications

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Partnership for Learning

Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices

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

National football league high school website: Academics

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

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

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

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

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship

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

Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment

Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly

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

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

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

Dropout rates in the United States: 2004

Education and the economy: An indicators report

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

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

Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response

Hidden benefits: The impact of high school graduation on household income

Socioeconomic school integration, Race, class, and integration: Gaining new insights

College learning for the new global century

Just for the kids

Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01

Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

The language of opportunity: Expanding employment prospects for adults with limited English skills

The career pathways how-to guide

PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old

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

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

Career and technical education's role in American competitiveness

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

Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement

Reforming education in Indiana: High achievers speak out

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

Knowledge is power program

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

Getting ready for college early: A handbook for parents of students in the middle and high school years

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

Forum guide to education indicators

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

Creating schools that work

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

Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

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

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

Hoosiers on Jupiter

Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later

Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography

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

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Reaching parents: The role of Latino parents in their children's education

Reclaiming the American dream

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education

It's my life: Employment

Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models

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

Talent...Opportunity: Prosperity depends on connecting the dots

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002

The looming workforce crisis: Preparing American workers for 21st century competition

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

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

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

Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge

The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys

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

Measured progress: Achievement rises, and gaps narrow, but too slowly

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

Encouraging news for college bound foster youth

Do graduation tests measure up: A closer look at state high school exit exams

Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools

Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success

Who goes to college? High school context, academic preparation, the college choice process, and college attendance

NCHEMS information center

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Head start on college: Dual enrollment strategies in New England

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

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

Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now

2006-2007 NASFAA financial aid night and counselor's materials

Students with disabilities: Preparing for postsecondary education: Know your rights and responsibilities

Rural education at a glance

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope

Differences in the gender gap: Comparisons across racial/ethnic groups in education and work

Education dedicated to black males still relevant

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

Lesser and greater expectations: The wasted senior year and college-level study in high school

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

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

How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education

Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college

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

ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning

Learning to earn

Dropout prevention programs: Right intent, wrong focus, and some suggestions on where to go from here

Preparing students for success in college

Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage

Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions

Where have all the students gone

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships

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

The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality

Data quality campaign 2012 snapshot

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

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

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

Common Core implementation workbook

Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years

Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions

Key to Career Success

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

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

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

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

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

Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

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

Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.

State high school exit exams: A policy in transition

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

Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

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

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

The reality of college readiness 2012: National report

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

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program

RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning

Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery

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

Regardless of the cost, college still matters

Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools

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