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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

College InSight

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

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

Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

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

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

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

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

The hidden costs of community colleges

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

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

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

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

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

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

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

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

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

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

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

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

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

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

Trends in college pricing 2011

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

The distribution of grants and scholarships by race

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

The College Match Program

Trends in student aid 2011

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

State policy profiles for completion by design

Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions

National student aid profile: Overview of 2012 federal programs

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges

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

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

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

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

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

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

Insuring college failure risk

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

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

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

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Opportunity.gov

The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

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

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

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

How much are college students borrowing?

Stronger department of education oversight needed to help ensure only eligible students receive federal student aid

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

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

Academic competitiveness grants

EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11

Condition of education 2008

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006

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

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model

2003 status report on the Pell grant program

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

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

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

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

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

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

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

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

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

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

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

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

Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Condition of Education 2010

Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010

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

Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates

Financial aid at California community colleges: Pell grants and fee waivers in 2003-04

The rise of college student borrowing

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

Buying college: What consumers need to know

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

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

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

The bottom line: Ensuring that students and parents understand the net price of college

National Coalition for College Completion

Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges

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

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

Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program

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

Advocacy in action toolkit

Mobility makers

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

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

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

Western Policy Exchanges

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

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

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

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

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

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

Regardless of the cost, college still matters

Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures

The economic case for higher education

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

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

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

Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes

Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class

Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students

A college access contract

Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education

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

Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices

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

Federal Student Aid (FSA)

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid

Federal Pell Grants: Implications of increasing the maximum reward

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

Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness

Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

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

Debt burden: Repaying student debt

Paying for college: Changes between 1990 and 2000 for full-time dependent undergraduates

First generation college students: A literature review

10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress

Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation

The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us

Trends in student aid 2008

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

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

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)

ACE Online Information Center

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

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

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

SREB Factbook on higher education

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability

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

“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

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

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

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

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

Strategic directions in Indiana education

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

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

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

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

Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes

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

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

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

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

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

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

Debt burden: A comparison of 1992-93 and 1999-2000 bachelor's degree recipients a year after graduating

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

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

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

Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004

A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices

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

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

Measuring up 2006

Dealing with debt: 1992-93 bachelor's degree recipients 10 years later

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

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

Merit aid and college access

Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization

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

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Back to school: Federal student aid policy and adult college enrollment

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

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states

Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs

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

Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out

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

Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house

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

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

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

The student debt crisis

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

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

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

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

The economic value of opportunity youth

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

Transforming education in America

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

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

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

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

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

Lifting the fog on inequitable financial aid policies: A companion brief to priced out: How the wrong financial aid policies hurt low-income students

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

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

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

The EFC formula, 2012-2013

Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels

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

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

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

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

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

Trends in student financing of undergraduate education: Selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08

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

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

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

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

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

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

SREB/Go Alliance

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

Education pays 2010

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

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

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

Postsecondary success

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

How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup

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

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

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

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

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

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

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

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

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth

Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators

Trends in college pricing 2010

Trends in student aid 2010

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

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

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

Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings

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

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

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

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

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

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34

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

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

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

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

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

Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges

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

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

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

Trends in college pricing 2012

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

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11

How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?

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

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

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07

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

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

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

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

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

State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices

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

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

Project on student debt: State by state data

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

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

Digest of Education Statistics

Opening Doors project publications

The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity

Financing graduate education: A guide for prospective students

FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

Campus-based student financial aid programs under the higher education act

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

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

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

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

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

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

Returning to our roots: Student access

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

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

Latinos in graduate education

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

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

Internet inequalities: Financial aid, the internet, and low-income students

NSLDS student access: National sudent loan data system

Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

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

Financial aid issues for students from low income families

NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good

2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states

Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty

Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals

2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for 2003-04 by type of institution

Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers

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

What colleges contribute: Institutional aid to full-time undergraduates attending four-year colleges and universities

Pell Grant recipients in selective colleges and universities

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

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

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

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer

Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students

Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success

Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults

Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Trends in college pricing 2008

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

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

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

College access and success state data

Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students

Indiana by the numbers

State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges

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

2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service

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

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

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

Korean American Scholarship Foundation

Project Complete

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

What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

Early intervention program and college partnerships

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

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

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

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

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

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

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

Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America

Why stop after high school?: A descriptive analysis of the most important reasons that high school graduates do not continue to PSE

Canada's Tuition and Education Tax Credits

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

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

A new kind of student aid: Creating, implementing and assessing the Millennium Access Bursaries

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

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

Trends in student aid 2009

Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007

Financial aid in theory and practice

2007-08 National postsecondary student aid study (NPSAS:08): Student financial aid estimates for 2007-08

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

Quick facts about financial aid and community colleges, 2007-08

New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design

IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle

IDA Pays: Examining the potential of education IDAs

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

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

Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today

Deciding on postsecondary education

What does a college degree cost? Comparing approaches to measuring "cost per degree"

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

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

Trends in college pricing 2009

The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence

Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report

Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary

Investing in their future: A survey of student and parental support for learning

The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

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

The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges

Making high school students into "college material"

How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae

State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college

Student Financial Survey: Baseline Results (2001)

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

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

Special populations: Tips for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Financial education in TRIO programs

Leadership to enhance college access and success

CollegeFish.org

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

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

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

New England Journal of Higher Education

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

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Low-income students and college success: More than money

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

Who graduates in California?

Manchester College: Fast forward program

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

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

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

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

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009

State higher education finance: Early release FY 2008

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

Trends in college spending: Where does the money come from? Where does it go?

Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend

A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access

Just and efficient college finance

Do grants matter?

Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England

Discounting toward disaster: Tuition discounting, college finances, and enrollments of low-income undergraduates

Expanding college access: The impact of state finance strategies

Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states

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

What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction

Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain

Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships

Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice

Trends in student aid 2003

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

How families of low- and middle-income undergraduates pay for college: Full-time dependent students in 1999-2000

Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated

A closer look at the President's proposal for changes in student assistance

Postsecondary education opportunity

Indiana higher education opportunity data book

Educational needs index

Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education

Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college

NDSFA: State financial aid and college access

Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice

Doors of opportunity opening or closing: We are using tax credits and tuition discounts to appease middle-class voters instead of expanding educational opportunity

Pell grant shares of undergraduate enrollments

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

The art of student retention

Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid

Trends in college pricing 2006

Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act

The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana

Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America

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

Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions

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

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

More on affordability: Response to Tom Mortenson

American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century

Tuition discounting: Not just a private college practice

Twenty-first Century Scholars Program

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

Latinos in undergraduate education

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

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

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

Federal student financial aid: A national profile of programs in Title IV of the higher education act

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

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

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

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

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

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

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

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

Going to the source: A practical way to simplify the FAFSA

Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Percent receiving federal financial aid and average amount per recipient

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

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

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

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

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

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

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

Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college

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

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

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

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

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

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

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

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

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

42nd Annual survey report on state sponsored student financial aid

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

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

Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

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

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

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

Trends in student aid 2012

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

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

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

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

Assets & opportunity scorecard

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

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

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

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

Prison vs. Princeton

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

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

Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools

National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession

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

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

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

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

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

41st annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2009-2010 Academic year

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

Gender inequalities in education

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

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

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

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

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

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

Slip sliding away: An anxious public talks about today's economy and the American Dream

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

The degree qualifications profile

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

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

Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process

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

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

Trends in student financing of graduate and first professional education: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

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

DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed

Developmental education in community colleges

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

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

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

Ensuring success for returning veterans

What is the price of college? Total, net, and out of pocket prices in 2007-08

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

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

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

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

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

Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students

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

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

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale

National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) for Students

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

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

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

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

How America saves for college: 2010

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

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

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

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

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

After the FAFSA: How red tape can prevent eligible students from receiving financial aid

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

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

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

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

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

For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2009 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2008-09, and 12-month enrollment 2008-09

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

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

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

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

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

Web tables - trends in graduate borrowing: selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08

Web tables - trends in undergraduate stafford loan borrowing: 1989-90 to 2007-08

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

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

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

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

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

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

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

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

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

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

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

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

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

The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

How college pricing undermines financial aid

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

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

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

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

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

Still denied: How community colleges shortchange students by not offering federal loans

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

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

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

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

Unequal aid: Discriminatory treatment of gay and transgender applicants and families headed by same-sex couples in the higher education financial aid process

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

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

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

The undereducated American

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

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

The expansion of private loans in postsecondary education

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

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

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

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

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

Snapshot report: Mobility

Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment

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

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

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

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

2012 Education appropriations guide

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

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

Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

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

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

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

Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure

Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices

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

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

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

Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state

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

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt

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

College is affordable: A pilot study

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

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

A record one-in-five households now owe student loan debt

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

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

Digest of Education Statistics 2011

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

How America pays for college 2012

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How America pays for college 2011

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

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

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

Grading student loans

Information constraints and financial aid policy

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

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

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

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

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

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

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

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

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

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

Postsecondary education tuition and required fees in Indiana: 2007-09

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

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

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

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

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

The national articulation and transfer network

Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families

Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West

Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans

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

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

Alabama education quick facts 2007

Colorado Reports

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

Federal student aid need analysis: Background and selected simplification issues

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

National Urban League Scholarships

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

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

Undergraduate students and credit cards 2004: An analysis of usage rates and trends

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

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

Nontraditional undergraduates

Accelerated learning for all

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

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

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

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

Documenting the shift to merit

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

Segal AmeriCorps Education Award

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

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

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

The state of college affordability in Indiana

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

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

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

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

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

Miles to go: Louisiana

Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid volume II

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

The feasibility of delivering aid for college through the tax system

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college

En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes

Need versus merit: Focusing student financial aid for diversity

Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

The student debt dilemma: Debt aversion as a barrier to college access

Missed opportunities revisited: New information on students who do not apply for financial aid

Federal student loan debt:1993-2004

NCHEMS information center

Trends in student aid 2005

Advisory committee on student financial assistance

How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04

1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients and their opinions about education in 2003

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

No merit in these scholarships

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

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

Public attitudes on higher education

What students pay for college: Changes in net price of college attendance between 1992-93 and 1999-2000

Student financing of undergraduate education: 1999-2000

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

It’s all relative: The role of parents in college financing and enrollment

The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality

What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education

The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt

Data sources for improving college access and success

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works

Science bound program (for Indianapolis public school students)

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

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

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

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

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

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

An overview of tax benefits for higher education expenses

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

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

Paving the way: How financial aid awareness affects college access and success

Schools, skills, and synapses

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule

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

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

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

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

NASFAA's cash for college

The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States

Gateway to College

Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability

How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

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

Orphan Foundation of America

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

Parent primer on career exploration

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

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

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

Indiana's guide to paying for college

Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors

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

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

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

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

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

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

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Scholarship Program

Fast foward: Find your place - faster

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

McNair scholar handbook

The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2009

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

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

How youth plan to fund college

"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children

Digest of Education Statistics, 2009

Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

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

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

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

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

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

Federal Student Aid: Grant Programs Factsheet

Federal Student Aid: Grant Programs Factsheet (Spanish language version)

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

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

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

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

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

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

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

Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?

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

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

Pressure points in student financial assistance: Exploring the “Making Ends Meet” database

Canadian college student finances: Third edition (2005)

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

A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management

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

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

Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students

Report on student debt: Canadian college student survey and Canadian undergraduate survey consortium

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

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

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

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

Federal student aid's oversight and monitoring of guaranty agencies, lenders, and servicers needs improvement

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

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Summer Search

Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009

IDAs and financial aid: Understanding the puzzle and sharing best practices

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

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

39th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid

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

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

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

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

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

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

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

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

FinAid: Income-based repayment

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

Official cohort default rates for schools

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

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

Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools

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

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Are student employment and academic success linked?

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

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education

Ten Things you need to know about financial support for post-secondary students in Canada

The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey

Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study

Getting with the program: Community college students need access to federal loans

Educational Policy Improvement Center

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

Projections of education statistics to 2018

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

Does money matter? II

Canadian college student finances: Second edition

Making ends meet: The 2001–2002 student financial survey

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

Is university education in Canada more affordable than in the United States?: A Review of the Argument Presented in The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel

Changes in tuition policy: Natural policy experiments in five countries

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

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

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success

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

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

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education

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

Growing What Works Database

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

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

Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run

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

Academic Competitiveness Grant and National SMART Grant

Academic Competitiveness Grant and National SMART Grant (Spanish language version)

Federal student aid for incarcerated individuals

Federal student aid for incarcerated individuals (Spanish language version)

Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP)

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

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

Access and persistence: Fall 2009

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

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

Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams

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

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

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

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

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

High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)

Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed

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

Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education

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

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

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

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

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program

Center for Law and Social Policy

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

Windows on achievement and inequality

Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability

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

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

Education Finance Council

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

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

Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

2006-2007 National directory of scholarships, internships, and fellowships for Latino youth

2007 Survey of parents of college-bound freshman

Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools

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

Enrollment status and outcomes

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

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

Indiana Chafee Education and Training Voucher (ETV) Program

College Board scholarship search

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

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

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

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

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

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

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

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

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

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

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Back to College (Back2College)

Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10

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

Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards

Think college? Me? Now?

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

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

OEDb's Online College Rankings 2009

Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)

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

The future of middle-skill jobs

Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10 (Spanish language version)

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

FinAid: Student loan advisor - Master's students

The feasibility of streamlining aid for college through the tax system

Male and female degree recipients by level of degree from 1997 to (projected) 2009

Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges

Collision course: Rising college costs threaten America’s future and require shared solutions

When saving means losing: Weighing the benefits of college-savings plans

Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship

Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation

Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions

What’s wrong with the guys

Lesser and greater expectations: The wasted senior year and college-level study in high school

Indicators of opportunity in higher education

Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences

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

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

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

Educational attainment of the population 25 years and over, by state

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

The role of student loans in college access

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

Student financing of graduate and first professional education: 1999-2000

Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later

U.S. Department of Education: The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit

The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel

2003 Status report on the federal education loan programs

Policies in sync: Appropriations, tuition, and financial aid in higher education

Student financial aid: Need determination could be enhanced through improvements in education's estimate of applicants state tax payments

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective

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

Gender differences in participation and completion of undergraduate education and how they have changed over time

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

2006-2007 NASFAA financial aid night and counselor's materials

Projections of education statistics to 2014

Course corrections: Experts offer solutions to the college cost crisis

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

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Workbook of state affordability rates 2004

State higher education finance: FY 2004

Lumina Foundation focus: Dreams detoured: Rising college costs alter plans and threaten futures

Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

Does public funding for higher education matter?

State of college admission 2007

California trends in student aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04

Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges

NDSFA: The financial aid partnership

A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

High hopes, big debts

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

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Primary progress, secondary challenge

Institutional graduation rate for 1985 entering cohorts

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

College preparation information from Peterson's Education Center

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004

Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families

Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)

Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

Student financing of undergraduate education 2003-04, with a special analysis of the net price of attendance and federal education tax benefits

Taxing matters

The impact of advice on price: Evidence from research

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

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

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

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

Collegiate learning assessement project

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Engaging students, challenging the odds

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

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02

Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

Feasibility of a student unit record system within the integrated postsecondary education data system

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

Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4

College access and tax credits

Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today

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

Finding the right college for you

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

Graduating with debt: The biggest threat to young American's financial well-being?

Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice

Student debt: Bigger and bigger

Financial aid, access, and America's social contract with higher education

The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college

Catching the Dream

America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future

Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Adult education participation in 2004-05

Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03

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

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Just for the kids

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

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

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

The campus-based financial aid programs: A review and analysis of the allocation of funds to institutions and the distribution of aid to students

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

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

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

Funding your graduate education: Sources of information

Federal student aid: Graduate and professional studies

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

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers

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

Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana

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

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

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

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

College: Making It Happen

Purdue opportunity awards program

Access to success initiative

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

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

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events

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

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges

Projections of education statistics to 2016

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

High school dropouts in America

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

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs

California District Report Cards

The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies

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

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

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

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy

Measuring efficiency in the community college sector

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

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

Financial Aid Shopping Sheet

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

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

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

Cracking the credit hour

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

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

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

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

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

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

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

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

Trends in college spending, 1999-2009

NASSGAP - National Association of State Student Grant & Aid Programs: State data quick check

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

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

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

Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process

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

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

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

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

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

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

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

Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy

A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools

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

Improving the odds for failing schools

Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead

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

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

Hearing on non-traditional students

The global gender gap index: 2011

Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment

Cohort default rates in context

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

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

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

Hard times: College majors, unemployment and earnings: Not all college degrees are created equal

EFC Formula, 2012-13

Federal education tax benefits: Who receives them and to what extent do they shape the price of college attendance?

Net tuition and net price trends in the United States: 2000-2009

For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions

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

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

College Search Database.com

Student debt and the class of 2010

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

Operation College Promise

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

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

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

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

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

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

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

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

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

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

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

Student lending's failing grade

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

Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

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

Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution

The Division III financial aid reporting program: Review results 2005-06 through 2010-11: Executive summary

Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs

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

Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student

New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED

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

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

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

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

The Future Ready Project

Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

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

The condition of education 2011

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

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

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

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

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

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

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

Improving community college success

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

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

A grounded theory of adult student persistence

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

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

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

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

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

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

A detection model of college withdrawal

Community college student survey

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

Who subsidizes whom? An analysis of educational costs and revenues

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

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

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

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

Steps taken on the path forward

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

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

Projections of education statistics to 2019

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

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

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

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011

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

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

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

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

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

Web tables: Choosing a postsecondary institution

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

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

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

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

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

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity

High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

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

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

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

The breaking through practice guide

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

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college

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

Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Federal Student Aid strategic plan: FY 2011-15

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

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

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

CollegeMeasures.org

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

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

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

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

Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online

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

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

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

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

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

NASSGAP 40th annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2008-2009 academic year

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

International Education Financial Aid: International Financial Aid and College Scholarship Search

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

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

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

A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education

Midwest evaluation of the adult functioning of former foster youth

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

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

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

Why is college so expensive?

Trends in college spending: 1998-2008: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?

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

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

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Mini-digest of education statistics, 2009

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

Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Indiana's Cash for College

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

YourWordsToday.org

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

Community College 2.0

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

Federal School Code List

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

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

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Pay scale: Which colleges are worth your investment (college cost comparison tool)

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

National Center for Academic Transformation

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

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

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

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

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

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

HBCU distance learning 2010

Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland

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

Student poll: Many college-bound students report difficulty affording a college education

Closing the gap between high school and college

From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

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

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

Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

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

Delinquency: The untold story of student loan borrowing

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

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

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

7th Annual AP report to the nation

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

Everybody ready for college

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

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

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

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

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

Piling it on: The growth of proprietary school loans and the consequences for students

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program

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

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

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

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

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

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

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

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

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

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

Analysis of preliminary FY2009 2-year cohort default rates

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

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

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

The price of poverty in big time college sport

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

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

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

College Savings Foundation: 2011 Survey of parents

Latino college completion: California

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it

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

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

Latino college completion: Texas

Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04

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

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

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

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

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

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

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

Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative

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

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

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

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

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

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

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

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

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

Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students

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

Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

Affordable at last: A new student loan system

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

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

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

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

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Snapshot Reports

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

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

General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle

Snapshot report: Persistence

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

Making college more affordable: The president's plan to lower college tuition is a good first step but more can be done

Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context

The missing "one-offs": The hidden supply of high achieving, low-income students

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

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

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program

Adult college completion toolkit

Student debt and the class of 2011

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

Common measures for college access and success

Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

2012 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.

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

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

The College Keys Compact: Getting into college: Postsecondary academic undermatch

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

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations

Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

An examination of the information technology job market

Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession

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

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

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

First-time Kindergartners in 2010-11: First findings from the Kindergarten rounds of the early childhood longitudinal study, Kindergarten class of 2010-11

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

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

Employees in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011 and student financial aid, academic year 2010-11 - first look

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

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

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

High debt, low information: A survey of student loan borrowers

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

What we know about dual enrollment

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

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Tuition and Fees in the West 2011-12

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

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

Boosting postsecondary education performance

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

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

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

Latino college completion in 50 states

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

Learning in a new key

Higher education accountability for student learning

Student loans and public accountability

Wrestling rising costs with innovation

Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Trends in student aid 2007

Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools

The family: America's smallest school

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

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

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

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

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2006

School Redesign Network

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

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Black college dollars: 2007-2008 Directory of scholarships for African-American students

Best Business Schools

Accelerated developmental education project

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Gates Millenium Scholars Program

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

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

Postsecondary Access and Success

College Access: Indiana

Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years

Lumina Foundation for Education: Adult learners

UA Adult Focus

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

Educational Attainment in the United States 2006

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

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

Guia de programas federales de ayuda estudiantil 2007-2008 (The guide to federal student aid)

Mission: Possible!

Helping families finance college: Improved student loan disclosures and counseling

Student loan forgiveness programs

Education and incarceration

Correctional education facts

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

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

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

College learning for the new global century

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

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

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

How do financial aid policies affect colleges? The institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship

Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers

Federal requirements for homeschoolers seeking college admission and financial aid

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

The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success

State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06

College on credit: How borrowers perceive their education debt

The debt explosion among college graduates

Parents are too optimistic about scholarships

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

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

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

12 Ways adult students can pay for college

Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs

LearnMore Indiana Resource Center

Teaching and learning across the class divide

Educational opportunity for all?

AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students

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

Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds

2009 NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) Reports by School

Low income student scholarships

Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for careers in athletics

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

Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative

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

What works for Latino students

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

Emergency financial aid for community college students: Implementation and early lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund programs.

Costs, prices, and affordability

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

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

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college

The impact of information and student aid on persistence: A review of research and discussion of experiments

Financial aid and postsecondary opportunity for nontraditional age pre-college students: The roles of information and education delivery systems

Perceptions of college financial aid among California Latino youth

Building toward a better future: A college planning guide for students and their families

EducationQuest

GI bill: A reality check

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries

Military money for college: Mainly a fantasy

Projections of education statistics to 2015

Effective college transition planning for students with learning disabilities: What does the research tell us?

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

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

Federal financial aid

Gender gap grows

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

Beyond the 49th parallel II: The affordability of university education

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

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

Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college

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

Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges

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

Trends in student aid 2006

Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography

College access: From the inside out

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

On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services

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

Dropout rates in the United States: 2004

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

The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students

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

Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04

National football league high school website: Academics

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

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

Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students

CPS: A leader in AP growth

NDSFA: Recommendations for improving federal aid delivery

NDSFA: Fundamental assumptions and aims underlying the principles of federal financial aid to students

American FactFinder

Grappling with the access problem

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

Bachelor's degrees awarded to men and women in Indiana 1970 to 2004

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Admission possible

Changes in patterns of prices and financial aid

The impact of demographic changes on higher education

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

Foster youth: Tips for completing the FAFSA (2008-09)

USA Funds

Early college high school initiative

Early commitment financial aid programs

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

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

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

Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students

Foster care independence act of 1999 and John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program

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

In state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Student aid and tax benefits: Better research and guidance will facilitate comparison of effectiveness and student use

35th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2003-04 Academic year

Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education

Baccalaureate and beyond: A descriptive summary of 1999-2000 bachelor's degree recipient

Informing public policy: Financial aid and student persistence

State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality

Trends in college pricing 2003

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

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college

The education pipeline in the U.S., 1970-2000

Indiana’s postsecondary indicators: 2004 performance and descriptive indicators

Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states

The policy of choice: Expanding student options in higher education

Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out

Private loans and choice in financing higher education

Changes in Pell grant utilization at Indiana Title IV institutions from 1992 to 2003

Workforce contingent financial aid: How states link financial aid to employment

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

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

Education watch 2009

Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

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

Indiana Secondary Market for Education Loans (ISM Loans)

Indiana higher education facts

A brief history of veterans' education benefits and their value

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

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

FAFSA tips and resources for foster and unaccompanied youth without stable housing

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

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

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

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

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

Dedicated funding for higher education: Alternatives for tough economic times

Measuring up 2008

2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet

2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet (Spanish Version)

Student debt and the class of 2007

Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support

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

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

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

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Economic state of young America

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

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

Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

YouthBuild USA

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

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

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

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

College.gov

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

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

StateVoucher.org (Education and Training Vouchers)

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

The real technology challenge

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

Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth

Get-recruited.com

IBRinfo.org

Federal Aid First

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

Education Finance Council (EFC)'s financial literacy homepage

Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation

Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

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

I-STEM Resource Network

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

38th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2006-2007 Academic year

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

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

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Diverse issues in higher education

Woodrow Wilson Fellowships

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

Anderson University: ADVANCE

University of Indianapolis: School for Adult Learning

Calumet College of St. Joseph: Adult Undergraduate Accelerated Programs

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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

Gates Millennium Scholars Scholarships

Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program

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

More student success: A systemic solution

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

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

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

What every college access practitioner should know: About sources of funding and other support

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

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

The Student Guide for High School Seniors/College Students

Scholarships for Hispanics

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

For every 100 girls...

The effects of public support on college attainment

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

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

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

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

Paying for college: Students from middle-income backgrounds

Complete College America

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

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

Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials

College Savings Foundation

Improving access to higher education by promoting saving

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

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

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

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

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

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide

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

Indiana's guide to paying for college: Step-by-step tips to help high school seniors apply for financial aid

Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states

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

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

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

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

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

Rising by Degrees

Paying for college: Distinguishing between cost and price

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

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

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

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

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Does money matter?

Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps

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

2010-2011 FAFSA on the web worksheet

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

Recognizing excellence? Canada’s merit scholarships

Canadian college student finances

Assessing Canada’s student aid need assessment policies

Deciding about post-secondary education: Hearing the voices of non-attendees

The price of knowledge 2004: Access and student finance in Canada

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

2009 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

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

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

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1998-2008

Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials

The American freshman: National norms for Fall 2008

The productivity argument for investing in young children

How America saves for college 2009: Sallie Mae's national study of students and parents

Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education

Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future

Institutional aid survey

An analysis of section 529 college savings and prepaid tuition plans

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Field guide for improving student success

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Measuring the effectiveness of student assistance - Annual report 2006

The Canadian student financial aid system: The case for modernization

Funding university education in Ontario: Ontario University applicant survey report

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

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

Do Perceptions Matter Regarding the Costs and Benefits of a Post-Secondary Education?

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

Center for College Affordability and Productivity

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

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

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

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

My future, my way: How to go, how to pay

Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

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

The state of learning disabilities 2009

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

US Department of Veterans Affairs: Yellow Ribbon Program

Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?

Characteristics of private student loan borrowers who do not use federal education loans

Impact of college rankings on institutional decision making: Four country case studies

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

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

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