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Savitz-Romer, M., Jager-Hyman, J., and Coles, A
Title:
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
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Date:
2009
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Institute for Higher Education Policy
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This paper proposes a unifying framework in which academic and social support policies and practices in high school go hand-in-hand with increased expectations and student success.
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Today’s leaders in government, higher education, secondary schools (middle and high school), and local communities are constantly seeking new ways to improve student achievement at all levels and to increase higher education attainment. This paper proposes a unifying framework in which academic and social support policies and practices in high school go hand-in-hand with increased expectations and student success.
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Achievement Gap
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College-going Culture
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Improving Postsecondary Student Success
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Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Common Core State Standards Initiative
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
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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
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
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Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
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When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Pathways to College Network
College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
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Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
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Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Ensuring academic success for English learners
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
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Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Miles to go: Louisiana
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Achievement in America
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Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Latino youth and the pathway to college
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Primary progress, secondary challenge
American student achievement institute
Pathways to college access and success
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
National college access network
Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Gateway to College
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
States' progress toward high school restructuring
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
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Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Access to success initiative
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The national articulation and transfer network
Opportunity in America: The role of education
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Learning in a new key
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
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Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
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Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Improving community college success
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Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
National Coalition for College Completion
Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
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Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
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Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
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Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Improving the odds for failing schools
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Who graduates in California?
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
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Improving math performance
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Measuring up 2008
Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
McNair scholar handbook
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Education Trust, Inc
Our impoverished view of education reform
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
Minority student achievement network
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
School relationships foster success for African American students
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Expanding learning time in high schools
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Catching the Dream
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Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
The Condition of Education 2010
Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
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
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Effective instructional strategies
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Complete College America
Family factors and student outcomes
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Deciding on postsecondary education
Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Field guide for improving student success
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
The challenge of college readiness
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions
Early warning system middle grades tool
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
ESEA Briefing Book
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills
Assessing deeper learning
State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Education pays 2010
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
The impact of teacher experience
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal
Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
No Excuses University Network
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
The impact of peers on college preparation: A review of the literature
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009
Evaluating student success interventions: 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
Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?
College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
What does research say about 21st century skills?
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
Education Trust-West
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Center on Education and the Workforce
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
A next social contract for the primary years of education
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
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Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Bridge Partnership
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Raising minority academic achievement: A compendium of education programs and practices
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
CPS: A leader in AP growth
Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors
Reclaiming the American dream
Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors
Beyond percentage plans: The challenge of equal opportunity in higher education
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Preparing students for success in college
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students
College success programs
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success
Education dedicated to black males still relevant
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Cal-SOAP
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Academic pathways to access and student success
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
Setting the record straight: How trendy approaches to college access might or might not be helping low-income students
I-STEM Resource Network
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Science and mathematics education indicators
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Doing What Works - Research based education practices online
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
Helping Teens Succeed
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Starfish Initiative
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
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
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
2012 National survey of school counselors
Latino college completion: Texas
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Latino college completion: California
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
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
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Western Policy Exchanges
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Is high school tough enough?
On the road to success
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
The future of public education in New Orleans
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes
Racial disparities and the new federalism
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
Academic competitiveness grants
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
A college access contract
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college
The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Accelerated learning for all
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
Student African American Brotherhood
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
EPAS®: A system that works
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
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
African American students and U.S. high schools
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
YMCA
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Fixing No Child Left Behind
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
College access and success state data
Community colleges under stress
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Sizing up state standards: 2008
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
The Equity Project
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Middle-class schools for all
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
More student success: A systemic solution
School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance
USA Funds
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Bridges to Success
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
National Association of Street Schools
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth
Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
Education watch online
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
What works clearinghouse
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
Charting a new course for career and technical education
Talent Development High Schools
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education
High Tech High Foundation
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Latinos in secondary education
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Excelencia in education
Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment
A new way on school integration
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
The nature of innovation in the community college
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report
Achieve Standards Alignment Tool
Financial education in TRIO programs
High school remediation
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Breakthrough Collaborative
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
College-going cultures in urban high schools
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
College readiness for all toolbox
Student Success Skills
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions
Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Standards in practice: An instructional gap analysis
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
The 2010 Brown Center report on American education
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04
Which achievement gap?
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning
National Center for Academic Transformation
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Afterschool Alliance
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Understanding the common core state standards
Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students
Why access matters: The community college student body
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Evaluate mentoring programs
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Mobility makers
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
The nation's report card: Science 2011
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
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
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College
On her majesty's school inspection service
Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Parents' guide to student success
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Latino college completion: Florida
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
Five ways education pays initiative
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
The Future Ready Project
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
College Greenlight
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for English (2004)
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
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
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
Central Indiana Talent Alliance
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
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools
What do you want in an afterschool program?
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Community college student survey
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Redefining college readiness
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Family firsts: Reach for your dreams
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide
The Everyone Graduates Center
The implementation checklist for college awareness: A product of the High School Reform Strategy Toolkit
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
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
National Center for Summer Learning
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
Council for Exceptional Children
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
How much growth toward college readiness is reasonable to expect in high school?
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Why Algebra II?
Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
The connection between health and high school dropout
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
Impact of homework on student achievement
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
Global Skills for Global Completion
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Ready by 21
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
College learning for the new global century
Just for the kids
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation
Education and incarceration
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Voices in urban education
Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Enacting diverse learning environments: Improving the climate for racial/ethnic diversity in higher education
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students
Postsecondary transitions among Navajo Indians
Turning Points
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
College access: From the inside out
Finance and resource issues in high school reform
High school reform - Issue brief
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access
The education liason model
Reflecting on reconnecting males to higher education
Achieving diversity: Race neutral alternatives in American education
Learning to earn
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
First generation college students: A literature review
Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood
Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope
Model college-preparatory curriculum
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
Just and efficient college finance
High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity
Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Creating a culture that supports academic excellence: Creating conditions that support academic achievement
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students
Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
Gender gap grows
Success for All Foundation
Puente Project
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth
Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
GEAR UP
Achieve, Inc.
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Virtual Pamphlet Collection - Study Skills
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap
Diverse issues in higher education
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Condition of education 2008
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Encouraging girls in math and science
A Better Chance.org
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Windows on achievement and inequality
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Schools, skills, and synapses
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
College tools for schools
The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Knocking at the college door: California state report
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Homework helper: Help your child take control
Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace
Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
Alternatives to the grade point average as measures of academic achievement in college
QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college
What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
Early college high school initiative: Brochure (2007)
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Postsecondary Access and Success
National Council of La Raza
Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans
Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
Center for native education
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Culture of evidence
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices
Creating a college-going culture guide
Race, schools, and neighborhoods: Reducing barriers to achievement
Promising practices for community college developmental education
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
Quality counts 2008
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
The first year of high school
Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Scaling community college interventions
Implementing common core state standards and assessments: A workbook for state and district leaders
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Think College Indiana!
A guide for Hispanic parents: How to help your child prepare for college and career
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Dual enrollment for high school students
Early warning indicator systems
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
The hidden costs of community colleges
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
A portrait of school improvement grantees
The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children
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
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
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
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
Latino college completion in 50 states
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
What is "career ready"?
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
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Common Core implementation workbook
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
Cracking the credit hour
Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
SREB State progress reports 2012
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Cohort default rates in context
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
The road to high-quality early education
Bullying and open enrollment
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
Mentors en Español
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Orphan Foundation of America
Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool
Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success
Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list
The family: America's smallest school
Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
What works clearinghouse: English language learners
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
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity
Student loans and public accountability
Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Reading--Young children's achievement and classroom experiences
A voice from the middle
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
What kind of test preparation is best?
Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
NCLB and high schools
Colorado Reports
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
25 Steps to effective developmental education
Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Latino students and U.S. high schools
Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity
Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
Language rights: An integration agenda for immigrant communities
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Dropout prevention practice guide
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
EdVisions Cooperative
Good Shepherd Services
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Facts for education advocates
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Flexible learning options for adult students
YouthBuild USA
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
Diversity and affirmative action in higher education
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
If small is not enough...The characteristics of successful small high schools in Chicago
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school
What every college access practitioner should know: About the importance of commitment
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
HippoCampus
Discovery Education Homework Help
HomeworkSpot
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
Economic mobility project
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
Adult Literacy Education In Immigrant Communities: Identifying Policy and Program Priorities for Helping Newcomers Learn English
Kids2College
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
Study Strategies
The male achievement gap in Indiana
Strategic directions in Indiana education
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
Programs at higher education institutions for disadvantaged precollege students
The Study Skills Guide for Students
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Raising boys' achievement
Indiana higher education opportunity data book
First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students
Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south
Head start on college: Dual enrollment strategies in New England
The middle grades: Putting all students on track for college
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now
Indiana inventory of academic pathways
National inventory of academic pathways
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers
Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline
National High School Center
Does diversity make a difference? Three research studies on diversity in college classrooms
They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education
Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science
Educational needs index
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Project GRAD
Indianapolis urban league: Campaign for African American achievement
National Urban League: Campaign for African American Achievement
Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative
SMASH Academy
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
KnowledgeWorks Foundation
The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Preparate para la universidad: A college planning guide in Spanish for students in grades 9 through 12
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
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
Helping children move from bad schools to good ones
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Measuring up 2006
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class
Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Empty promises: The myth of college access in America
College affordability: Overlooked long-term trends and recent 50 state patterns
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Do grants matter?
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction
Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success
Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students
Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success
Public attitudes on higher education
The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how
Students with disabilities: Preparing for postsecondary education: Know your rights and responsibilities
The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
