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Author(s):Tierney, W., Bailey, T., Constantine, J., Finkelstein, N., Hurd, N., Max, J., and Tuttle, C.
Title:Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Source:http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practiceguides/h...
Date:2009
Organization:US Department of Education Institute of Education Services
Short Description:This guide is intended to help schools and districts develop practices to increase access to higher education. It can be useful for individuals who work in schools and districts in planning and executing strategies to improve preparation for, and access to, higher education.
Annotation:This guide is intended to help schools and districts develop practices to increase access to higher education. It can be useful for individuals who work in schools and districts in planning and executing strategies to improve preparation for, and access to, higher education. A panel of experts in college access programs and strategies and in research methods developed the recommendations in this guide. The guide contains specific steps on how to implement the recommendations that are targeted at school- and district-level administrators, teachers, counselors, and related education staff. The guide also indicates the level of research evidence demonstrating that each recommended practice is effective.
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Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
SREB/Go Alliance
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
Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
YourWordsToday.org
Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
High school remediation
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Pathways to College Network
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas
The role of guidance in post-secondary planning
Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information
Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
Standards in practice: An instructional gap analysis
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Student Success Skills
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
A first look at the common core and college and career readiness
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
Early college designs
The false promise of class-size reduction
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
Access to the future: Preparing college students with disabilities for careers
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Preparate para la universidad: A college planning guide in Spanish for students in grades 9 through 12
The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Telling your story: A toolkit for marketing urban education
High school counselors handbook 2004-05
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs use data to make decisions
College preparation checklist
The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college
Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
EPAS®: A system that works
Improving performance on the ACT assessment
Handling test stress: Practical tips to help your child
The college search: How you can help your child
Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education
Charting a new course for career and technical education
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
College admission for homeschoolers
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying employment readiness skills and the skills for on-the-job success
Indiana Department of Education: Career guidance - high school
Career preparation curriculum
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Indiana's guide to paying for college
Year end to-do list
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Delaware Career Compass 2007-2008
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Dream it! Do it!
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Preparing for a campus visit: Know before you go
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Deciding on postsecondary education
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Indiana Graduation Plan Statute
College tools for schools
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
YouthBuild USA
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
Collaborative for acadmic, social, and emotional learning (CASEL)
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
USA Funds Unlock the Future
Think college? Me? Now?
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
College.gov
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events
Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices
Promoting college access and planning: Coaches can help
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Retooling career and technical education
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
College Access: Indiana
Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families
How to Choose a College: A Guide for the Student with a Disability
College application calendar: Save the date for college
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Mental health in school and school improvement: Current status, concerns, and new directions
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Knowing how and where to obtain information about the world of work and post-secondary training/education
California career planning guide 2003-05
Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
Ohio's career development program
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Career development-high school (Grades 9-12)
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
A science-based framework for early childhood policy
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
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
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education
Career key
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
How well do you know your child?
What to do about senioritis: Help your child make senior year count
Choosing smart electives: Cultivating interests, strengths, and special talents
Volunteer opportunities: Helping others can help your child
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Finding the right college for you
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
College access: A framework for systemic program development
Guia para estudiantes (Guide for students)
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Your senior year
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
The taxonomy of career development interventions that occur in America's secondary schools
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
Strategic instruction model
Finance and resource issues in high school reform
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Getting ready for college: What student engagement data can tell us
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
College guidance
EducationQuest
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
How to improve access to college
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
Counseling and college counseling in America’s high schools
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
College readiness begins in middle school
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Preparing students for success in college
Foundation for excellent schools
Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different
Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Head start on college: Dual enrollment strategies in New England
Career-related predictors of work-bound and college-bound status of adolescents in rural and nonrural areas
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Parents' guide to student success
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
The condition of education 2011
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
Planning a school-based mentoring program
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
10 Pieces of advice from students for teachers
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion
We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens
Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
A detection model of college withdrawal
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
P-20 governance
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
School connectedness and meaningful student participation
Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Postsecondary expectations and plans for the high school senior class of 2003-04
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Growing What Works Database
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools
College-going culture rubric
Teacher and staff activities to create a college-going culture
Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
Project U-turn
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Indiana's Cash for College
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
Making graduation a priority
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
The four keys: Unlocking high school success and the path to college
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
The current status of school counseling outcome research
Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
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
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Revamping the teacher evaluation process
Hearing on non-traditional students
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
Redefining your success: The role of adolescent connectedness in demonstrating mentoring impact
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts
The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Is high school tough enough?
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
A systemic approach to implementing response to intervention in three Colorado high schools
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Preparing students to transition from high school to college: A review of the perceptions surrounding college and the challenges students face as they prepare for their collegiate experience
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
2012 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Common measures for college access and success
Helping youth develop soft skills for job success: Tips for parents and families
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
The complexity of college and career readiness
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
Framework for 21st century learning
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
Promoting work-based learning: Efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning
The first year of high school
College completion: Who graduates from college, who doesn't and why it matters
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
What's in your cabinet? How agencies can collectively improve the lives of children and youth
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
On her majesty's school inspection service
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
New policies should align with existing goals and plans for children and youth
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
The nation's report card: Science 2011
Common core state standards & career and technical education: Bridging the divide between college and career readiness
Common Core implementation workbook
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Western Policy Exchanges
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Early warning system middle grades tool
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
RTI Progress monitoring tools chart
Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:
Response to Intervention resources for high schools
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
College readiness calendar (9th & 10 grades)
College readiness calendar (11th and 12th grades)
Community College 2.0
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide
Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
The connection between health and high school dropout
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
A next social contract for the primary years of education
What educators should learn from ER
Ready by 21
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Council for Exceptional Children
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
Family factors and student outcomes
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Insuring college failure risk
Early college placement testing opportunities in Maine
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
Achieve Standards Alignment Tool
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?
Closing the access gap: Does information matter?
A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
The door to opportunity is always labeled push (Spanish language version)
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth
Kaarme.com (College planning for athletes)
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
SchoolGuides.org: Transition guides for students and their families
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
2009 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Field guide for improving student success
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Campaign for High School Equity
Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care
College-going cultures in urban high schools
The implementation checklist for college awareness: A product of the High School Reform Strategy Toolkit
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
A closer look at the principal-counselor relationship: A survey of principals and counselors
Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?
Interventions for struggling readers
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
The nation's report card: Science 2009
The relationship of individual career plans to programs of study and career pathways
IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
Operation Military Kids
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
Expanded measures of school performance
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
The Future Ready Project
You can go! Educator resources
A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
Implementing common core state standards and assessments: A workbook for state and district leaders
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Five ways ed pays (Spanish language version)
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)
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
College completion toolkit
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Talking it through: Communication skills for mentors: Real-life examples to guide you through your mentoring relationship
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
The ABC's of school-based mentoring
Students with disabilities: Preparing for postsecondary education: Know your rights and responsibilities
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
College is possible
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science
Minority student achievement network
Success for All Foundation
ScholarShop
Students as allies in improving their schools: A report on work in progress
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
Developing and using student data: Bartholomew county's six year follow-up study
Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success
Encouraging news for college bound foster youth
The education liason model
Thinking college early
Identifying and implementing educational practices supported by rigorous evidence: A user friendly guide
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
School relationships foster success for African American students
Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012
Empty promises: The myth of college access in America
Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
College success programs
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators
PREP Magazine
Supporting parent, family, and community involvement in your school
What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement
Effective college transition planning for students with learning disabilities: What does the research tell us?
Education Online Search
Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CSCORE)
What do you like: Exploring career information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Mapping your future
Frequently asked questions regarding Indiana's new high school course and credit requirements
Indiana career pathways: Four-year course plans and career academic sequences
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
Getting students ready for college and careers
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates
Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students
Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school
High School Survey of Student Engagement
Reclaiming the American dream
Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Miles to go: Louisiana
Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04
AVID -- school-college transition for underachievers
The ranking game
National College Access Program Directory
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services
National Center for College Costs
Cómo pagar por sus estudios universitarios (Financial aid guide)
Eligiendo una universidad (Choosing a college)
Guia para padres (Guide for parents)
Indiana youth group
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
Developing the STEM education pipeline
Differential grading standards among high schools
Preparing for college
Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
How do I pay for college?
Spanish services training guide
Distance education
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
Accelerated learning for all
Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience
Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience
Ten ways to help your child become self-reliant
Your child's high school counselor: Putting it all together
College prep glossary: College admissions from A to Z
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
Break down the bill: What's it going to cost?
Why community colleges?
How not to be a helicopter parent
Should your child take a year off?: It's not the end of the world
Hendricks College Network
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
College: Making It Happen
Homework helper: Help your child take control
Where the scholarships are: How to develop a scholarship strategy
How to apply for a scholarship: The money is there, but you have to ask for it
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum
Improving students' readiness for college: Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Illinois District 233
Guide to creating community-based college access programs
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Talent Development High Schools
Keirsey temperment sorter
High Tech High Foundation
Linking career/technical studies to broader high school reform
America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future
Career and technical education reforms and comprehensive school reforms in high schools: Their impact on education outcomes for at-risk youth
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Questbridge
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Steps to success (English and Spanish Versions)
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
College bound seniors state profile report tutorial
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
The career pathways how-to guide
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college
Career development curricula and instructional materials
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
Engaging parents in education: Lessons from five parental information and resource centers
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying career exploration and planning skills in the achievement of life career goals
The effects of cognitive-behavioral interventions on dropout for youth with disabilities
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
American Student Achievement Institute: Career Development Lessons
A parent handbook for career development
Career guidance: A curriculum guide for the middle level
Washington State Navigation 101 2007-08 Curriculum
Career quest
What every college access practitioner should know: About the importance of commitment
More student success: A systemic solution
Windows on achievement and inequality
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
States' progress toward high school restructuring
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
A resource guide for adolescent literacy
Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity
Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban school
Essay tips for your child: Conquering the blank page
Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
Character counts: The child behind the numbers
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Career planning and employment strategies for postsecondary students with disabilities
Inside the admissions process: What happens to your child's applications?
Application requirements: There's more than just a form
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Project Mentor
Helping Teens Succeed
Campus visit checklist: How to make the most of the trip
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Creating a culture of literacy: A guide for middle and high school principals
Resources for intermediaries: Developing a budget for early college
The Breakthrough High School project
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Creating a college-going culture guide
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
Seven activities for enhancing the replicability of evidence-based practices
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
College access and success state data
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens
Promoting student success: Indiana educational and career services
Science and mathematics education indicators
CollegeAnswer.com
I-STEM Resource Network
Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education
Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
The Student Guide for High School Seniors/College Students
GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: 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
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements
Background on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Intervention Central
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Flexible learning options for adult students
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
The cost of small high schools: A literature review
Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
"Careers for the future" education program
Gateway to College