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

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

Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment

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

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

Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education

National Coalition for College Completion

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

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

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

Operation College Promise

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

Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

Postsecondary success

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

Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

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

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

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

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

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

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

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

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

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

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

K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities

Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education

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

Everybody ready for college

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

How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college

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

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

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

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

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

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

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

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

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

The breaking through practice guide

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

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

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

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

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

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

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

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

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

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

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

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

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

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

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

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

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

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

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

Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)

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

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

Hearing on non-traditional students

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

Advocacy in action toolkit

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

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

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

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

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

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

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns

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

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

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

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

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

Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative

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

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

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

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

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

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

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

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

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

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

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

Improving community college success

Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program

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

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

Closing the gap between high school and college

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

A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all

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

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

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

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

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

The College Match Program

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

The hidden costs of community colleges

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

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

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

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

Why access matters: The community college student body

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

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

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

Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school

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

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

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration

Growing What Works Database

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions

Field guide for improving student success

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

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

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

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

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

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

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

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Global Skills for Global Completion

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

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

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

From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

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

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

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

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

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

National Council of La Raza

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

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

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

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

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

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

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

Access to success initiative

The national articulation and transfer network

Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success

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

School Redesign Network

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

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

Schools to watch

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

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

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

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

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

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

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

Making high school students into "college material"

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

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

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

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

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

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

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

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

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

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

Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California

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

The economic value of opportunity youth

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

Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Key considerations for serving disconnected youth

Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program

Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

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

Think College Indiana!

Using linked data to drive education and training improvement

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

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

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

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

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

Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states

Ensuring success for returning veterans

Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership

The US STEM education model (simulation)

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

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

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

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

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

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

The undereducated American

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

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

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

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

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

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

Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states

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

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

What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

Boosting postsecondary education performance

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

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

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

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

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states

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

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

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

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

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

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school

The economic case for higher education

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

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

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

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

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

High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges

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

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

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

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

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

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

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

Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students

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

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

A portrait of school improvement grantees

Latino college completion: Florida

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

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

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

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

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

When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?

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

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

Latino college completion: California

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

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

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

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

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

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

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

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

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

Project WIn-Win

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

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

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

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

On the road to success

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

Transforming education in America

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

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

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

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

New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states

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

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

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

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

Flexible learning options for adult students

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

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

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

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

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

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

Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009

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

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

Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity

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

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans

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

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

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

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

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

FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success

Complete College America

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

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

College InSight

New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview

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

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

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

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

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

Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school

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

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

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

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

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

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

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

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

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

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

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

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

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

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

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

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

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

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Addressing the needs of adult learners

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

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

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

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

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

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

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

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

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

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

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

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

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

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

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

I-STEM Resource Network

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

I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training

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

Early intervention program and college partnerships

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

More student success: A systemic solution

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

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

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

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

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

YMCA

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

Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

What works for Latino students

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

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

Nontraditional undergraduates

Just for the kids

College learning for the new global century

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

Adult education participation in 2004-05

Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions

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

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04

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

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

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

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

Grantmakers for Education

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

Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts

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

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

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

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

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

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

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

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

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

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

The nature of innovation in the community college

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

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

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

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

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

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

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

Pathways to College Network

College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success

Time to Completion Web Site

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

Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans

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

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

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

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

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Deciding on postsecondary education

Developmental Education Toolkit

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

State education activities to support mission growth

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

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

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

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

College access and success state data

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

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid

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

The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals

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

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions

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

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

Western Policy Exchanges

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

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

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

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Pat Tillman Foundation

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

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

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

The case for change in college admissions

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

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

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

Scaling community college interventions

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)

Latino college completion: Texas

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

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

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

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

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

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

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

Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education

Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners

Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs

One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges

Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

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

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

Developmental education in community colleges

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

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

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

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

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

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

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

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

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

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

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

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

Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations

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

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

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

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

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

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

The condition of education 2011

Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

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

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

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

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

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

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

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

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

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

Adult college completion toolkit

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

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

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

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

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

What is "career ready"?

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

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

Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011

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

Healthcare

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

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

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

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

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults

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

Cracking the credit hour

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

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

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

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

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

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

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

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

Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

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

Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies

Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions

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

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

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

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

A systemic approach to implementing response to intervention in three Colorado high schools

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

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

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

Common measures for college access and success

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

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

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

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

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

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

State and local policy for reconnecting youth

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

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

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Gender inequalities in education

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

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

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable

Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis

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

Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college

A detection model of college withdrawal

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

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

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

The degree qualifications profile

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

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

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education

Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement

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

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

School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth

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

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

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

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning

We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

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

Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools

Accomodating student veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder: Tips for campus faculty and staff

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11

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

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

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

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

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

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

Three policies to reduce time to degree

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

Adolescent literacy

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

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

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

Science and engineering indicators 2012

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

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

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

ACE Toolkit for veteran friendly institutions

Assets & opportunity scorecard

State policy profiles for completion by design

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

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

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

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

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

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

Mobility makers

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

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

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

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

Measuring up 2008

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

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

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

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

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

The future of middle-skill jobs

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care

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

Issue tables: A profile of military service members and veterans enrolled in postsecondary education in 2007-08

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

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

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

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

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

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

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

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

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

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

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

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

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

The President's Forum

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

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

Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts

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

Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions

Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses

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

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

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

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

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

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

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

Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)

Community College 2.0

State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation

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

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

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

National Center for Academic Transformation

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

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

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

The College Completion Agenda

Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time

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

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

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

Understanding the working college student

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

Education pays 2010

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

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

Does public funding for higher education matter?

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

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Measuring up 2006

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

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

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace

A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

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

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

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

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

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

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

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Accelerated learning for all

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

Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

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

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

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

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

Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students

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

A call to action: Why America must innovate

Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges

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

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

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

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

The real technology challenge

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

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

Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it

Breaking through: Factsheet

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

The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance

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

Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)

Windows on achievement and inequality

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation

Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students

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

Diverse issues in higher education

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

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

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

Economic state of young America

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

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

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

Dropout prevention practice guide

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

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

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

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

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

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

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

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

Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs

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

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

Center for Law and Social Policy

Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce

The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Adult learners: A data and policy perspective

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

The male achievement gap in Indiana

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

New England Journal of Higher Education

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

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

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement

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

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

Workers need training, not tough talk

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

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

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

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

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

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

The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

Retooling career and technical education

Student loans and public accountability

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Postsecondary Access and Success

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

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

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

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

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

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

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

Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions

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

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

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

Engaging students, challenging the odds

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

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

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

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

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

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

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

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

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

Correctional education facts

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

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

Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society

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

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

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

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

Measuring up 2004

College success programs

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

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

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

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

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

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

Data sources for improving college access and success

Identifying and implementing educational practices supported by rigorous evidence: A user friendly guide

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

Postsecondary education opportunity

Educational needs index

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

National inventory of academic pathways

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

Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement

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

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America

Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

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

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

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

Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools

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

Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles

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

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students

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

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

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

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

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

A paradox of education progress

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

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

Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

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

15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention

Making graduation a priority

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

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

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

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

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

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

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

High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness

Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better

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

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

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

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

Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate

A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials

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

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

Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities

IPEDS Data Center

The Everyone Graduates Center

How much are college students borrowing?

The productivity argument for investing in young children

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

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

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

Projections of education statistics to 2018

Common Core State Standards Initiative

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

Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

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

Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement

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

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

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

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

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

The higher education landscape for student service members and veterans in Indiana

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

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

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

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

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

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

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

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

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

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

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

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

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

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)

STEM: State reports and state level analysis

Leveraging data for college completion

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

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports

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

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

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

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

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

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

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

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

US Students in overseas degree programs: Key destinations and fields of study

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

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

The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream

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

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

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

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

Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators

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

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career

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

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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

Boosting college completion for a new economy

Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?

Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids

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

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

The Future Ready Project

An economy that works: Job creation and America's future

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

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

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

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

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

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

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

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

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

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success

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

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

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

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

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

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

What works in student retention 2010

The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy

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

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs

The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

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

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

The false promise of class-size reduction

Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

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

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

Projections of education statistics to 2019

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

Buying college: What consumers need to know

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

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes

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

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

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

Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways

Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences

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

An overview of classes taken and credits earned by beginning postsecondary students

What we know about dual enrollment

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

The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

Graduate enrollment in science and engineering grew substantially in the past decade but slowed in 2010

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

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

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

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

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook

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

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

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

Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America

An examination of the information technology job market

Supporting first-generation college students through classroom-based practices

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"

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

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

5 Education factors in focus

2012 SREB Annual Report

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

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

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

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

Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers

The nation's report card: Science 2011

Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States

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

Latino college completion in 50 states

Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention

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

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

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

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

The first year of high school

Promoting work-based learning: Efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky

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

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

Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale

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

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

Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?

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

National and regional accreditation information

Changing the odds for children and youth community profile: Northern Kentucky: Building a leadership council

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

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

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

Student success in higher education

Adult College Completion Network

ESEA Briefing Book

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

College completion toolkit

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

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

The role of mentoring in college access and success

The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011

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

Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits

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

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

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

Latino college completion: State series

Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

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

Community college student survey

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

Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits

Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures

Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools

Transfer and articulation policies

Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later

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

Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students

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

Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood

The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

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

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

Early warning indicator systems

Operation Military Kids

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

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

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

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

Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels

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

When school stability requires transportation: State considerations

Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them

Assessing deeper learning

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

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

Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

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

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

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

Bullying and open enrollment

SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

Prison vs. Princeton

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

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

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

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

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

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

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

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

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

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

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

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

State future workforce gap summaries

Black Alliance for Educational Options

National League of Cities

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

Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within

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

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

The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance

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

The Equity Project

Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

Youth transitioning from foster care: Background, federal programs and issues for Congress

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

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

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

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

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

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

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

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

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

Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison

Summer Search

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

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

Recommendations for state postsecondary data systems: A report from state data experts

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)

Rising by Degrees

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

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

Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

BC AVID: Early implementation report

Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

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

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

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

US Department of Veterans Affairs: Yellow Ribbon Program

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

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

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

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

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

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools

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

Participating Achieving the Dream Colleges

Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges

The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education

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

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

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

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

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

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

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

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

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

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

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

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

Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run

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

College Savings Foundation

Improving access to higher education by promoting saving

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States

Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018

Response to Intervention policy

Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

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

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

College for all?

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

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

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

Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it

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

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

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

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

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Education and the economy: An indicators report

What works clearinghouse

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

Dual enrollment of high school students at postsecondary institutions: 2002-03

Annotated bibliography: Perspectives in postsecondary education programs and student support interventions

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Independent undergraduates: 1999-2000

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults

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

American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

Access to the Baccalaureate initiative: A clear path to college

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Gender gap grows

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

NCHEMS information center

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

Educational Policy Institute

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

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

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

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

Preparing students for success in college

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

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

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

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

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us

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

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

Excelencia in education

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

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

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

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

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

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

The career pathways how-to guide

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

Recent STEM initiatives

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

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

Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03

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

Enhancing student success in education: Summary report of the NPEC Initiative and National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

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

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

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

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

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

Collegiate learning assessement project

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

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

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

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

Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements

Women on the rise

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes

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

Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world

Higher education accountability for student learning

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Federal policy and Latinos in higher education

Setting the stage: Adults in Higher Education

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

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

Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

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

Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education

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

Accelerated developmental education project

Orphan Foundation of America

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

Projections of education statistics to 2016

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

Economic mobility project

Economic mobility of black and white families

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

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

Education and economic mobility

Who graduates in California?

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

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

Encouraging girls in math and science

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

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report

Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access

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

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

The state of American manhood

College For Every Student

Project Complete

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships

The minds of boys

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

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs

Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

Condition of education 2008

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

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

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

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

Tapping America's Potential

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

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

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

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

Indiana R&D 2008: Meeting the global challenge for innovation

The Fortune Society: Prisoner Re-entry

The Workforce Alliance

Voice of adult learners united to educate (VALUE)

Skills2Compete

National Institute for Literacy

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

The education success program

Strategic directions in Indiana education

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Learn and Serve America

Indiana college success coalition

Anderson University: ADVANCE

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

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

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

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

Maintaining participation of Millennial Generation students in online learning environments

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

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report

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

National dropout prevention center for students with disabilities

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

How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?

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

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

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

Quality counts 2008

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

Foster Family-based Treatment Association

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Indiana Association of Home Educators

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

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

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

Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families

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

Benchmarks: Indicators of effective educational practice

Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

Distance learning and adults with disabilities

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

Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices

Connected by 25: Information resource center for youth transitions initiatives

Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education

25 Steps to effective developmental education

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

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

The path to prosperity: A policy of investment

Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07

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

Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce

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

State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices

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

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2006

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

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

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

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

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

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02

Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier

Tour of the male student mind in American higher education

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

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

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

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

Indiana youth group

Guide to colleges for mothers

Student African American Brotherhood

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

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

EPAS®: A system that works

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

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative

Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01

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

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

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

The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities

Ensuring academic success for English learners

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

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

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

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

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

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

Education and incarceration

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice

Promoting educational success for young people in foster care

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

Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

Access and participation profiles

Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers

Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education

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

Collaborative efforts in student retention: A snapshot of best practices across the nation

Middle Start

The American diploma project: Overview of research

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

Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

Do grants matter?

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

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

State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer

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

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

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

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

When it comes to school, girls rule

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

Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004

Access to community college for undocumented immigrants: A guide for state policy makers

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education

National college access network

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

State higher education finance: FY 2004

Pathways to college access and success

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

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California

Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment

What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

Improving access to the baccalaureate

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

Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics

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

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

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library

Connecting the dots: Multifaceted analyses of the relationships between student engagement results from the NSSE, and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success

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

Cal-SOAP

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

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

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

Student Retention.org

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

Making good on a promise: What policymakers can do to support the educational persistence of dropouts

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

NDSFA: State financial aid and college access

NDSFA: The financial aid partnership

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers

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

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students

Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

Trends in college pricing 2006

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

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

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

ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School

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

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

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

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

Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda

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

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

Building an early childhood professional development system

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

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

Center on Education and the Workforce

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

Evidence-based dropout prevention programs

The Condition of Education 2010

Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents

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

Tiered intervention on the high school level

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

Tuition-setting authority and deregulation at state colleges and universities

Parent engagement toolkit

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

Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates

Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies

Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources

National Center on Intervention: RTI state database

Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document

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

IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

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

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:

SparkAction.org

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010

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

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

Project U-turn

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

Maximizing the potential of older adults: Benefits to state economies and individual well-being

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

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

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

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

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

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

The effects of public support on college attainment

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

A shared agenda: Action alert for higher education leaders

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

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

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

Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders

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

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work

Transparency by design

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

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

The state of learning disabilities 2009

Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention

Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care

College choices for adults: Transparency by design

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

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

Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators

Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools

Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom

Educational Policy Improvement Center

Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education

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

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

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

Progress and gaps in college preparation policy

Are student employment and academic success linked?

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

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

Trends in student aid 2009

Students With Dependants: Common Practices in Post-Secondary Education Institutions in Canada and the United States (2005)

The spaces between the numbers: Getting international data on higher education straight

Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices

Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success

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

The value of value-added data

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Diversifying the STEM pipeline: The model replication institutions program

Diversifying the STEM pipeline: The model replication institutions program (Fact Sheet)

Meeting the invention challenge

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

Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education

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

Financial aid in theory and practice

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

The public realities of private student loans

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

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

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

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

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

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

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

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis

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

Education watch 2009

Operation Diploma

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

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

Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

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

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

Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition

Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step

Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs: State Approving Agency (SSA)

Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals

Federal access policies and higher education for working adults

College tools for schools

Schools, skills, and synapses

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards

Ranking Systems Clearinghouse

Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)

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

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

21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide

Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives

Community colleges under stress

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

The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007

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

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

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

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

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

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

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

Snapshot report: Mobility

Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment

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

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

Early warning system middle grades tool

Cohort default rates in context

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

Information constraints and financial aid policy

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

Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out

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

What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth

Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

Grapevine, Fiscal Year 2011-12

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

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

Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning

The road to high-quality early education

Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option

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

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

Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty

The global gender gap index: 2011

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

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

Trends in student aid 2011

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

TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion

Student voices: What makes a great teacher?

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report

Women Employed

The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west

Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region

Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04

Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data

Ten facts about the recovery

New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED

Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy

Five ways education pays initiative

Dual enrollment for high school students

A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time

Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders

Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds

Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males

Proposed legislative changes to the post-9/11 GI Bill: Potential implications for veterans and colleges

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08

Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments

CollegeMeasures.org

Community college and high school partnerships

A first look at the common core and college and career readiness

Ready by 21: Making quality count

Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)

Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development

Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah

Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent

A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students

An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

Closing the expectations gap 2011

Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity

False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools

PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students

Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers

Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution

One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success

Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers

Presidential perspectives: The 2011 Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university presidents

Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams

Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule

State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

Align new policies with existing efforts to collaborate

Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program

Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants

Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010

Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates

The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams

The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt

Trends in student aid 2012

K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program

Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context

College and career development organizer

National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce

Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy

A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools

Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success

On her majesty's school inspection service

Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes

The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies

States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook

The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth

Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts

NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide

Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California

The American middle class, income inequality, and the strength of our economy: New evidence in economics

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

Does America promote mobility as well as other nations?

Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study