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Earning College Credit in High School: Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate Programs

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Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college

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

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

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

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College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes

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Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

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

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

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

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

The value of value-added data

Making high school students into "college material"

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

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

ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School

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

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

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

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

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

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

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

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

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

Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education

Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success

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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

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

Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?

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

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A little now for a lot later: A look at a Texas advanced placement incentive program

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

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

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

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

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

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Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

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Educational Policy Improvement Center

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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

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

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Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive

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

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

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

Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)

Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana

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Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

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

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The US STEM education model (simulation)

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

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

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

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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)

Gender inequalities in education

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

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

Finance and resource issues in high school reform

Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs

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

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Dual enrollment of high school students at postsecondary institutions: 2002-03

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

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

Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels

Office of Indian education programs

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

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

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

Education Commission of the States: Research studies database

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

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

Update on advanced placement

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

Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

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

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

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

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

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Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

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

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

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

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

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

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals

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

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

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

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

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

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

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

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

Opportunity in America: The role of education

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

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

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

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

Who graduates in California?

Indiana University High School

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

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

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

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

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

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

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

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

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

LearnMore Indiana Resource Center

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

Head start on college: Dual enrollment strategies in New England

Indiana University Independent Study Program

Early college high school initiative

The false promise of class-size reduction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah

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

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

The College Match Program

What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools

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

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

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

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

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

The breaking through practice guide

Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

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

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

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

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

New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students

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

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

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

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

Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course

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

What is "career ready"?

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

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

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

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

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

The economic value of opportunity youth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

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

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

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

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

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

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

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

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

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

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

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

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

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

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

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Preparing for the AP test

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

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

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

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

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

Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

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

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

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

SREB/Go Alliance

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

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

National inventory of academic pathways

Ball State: College transition program

Indiana high school students' opportunities for earning college credit

Advanced placement information

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

With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future

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

The lost opportunity of senior year: Finding a better way

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

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

Learning by degree: Real-life stories from three early collge high schools

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

Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success

The Gates effect

Summary of Indiana policy environment to support and sustain early college high schools

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs

Ohio early college high school initiative

An overview: Early college high school

Big Picture Company

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

Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education

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

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

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

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

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

Supporting high school students in the transition to college

Miles to go: Louisiana

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

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

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

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

Retooling career and technical education

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

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

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

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

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

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

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Summer Search

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

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

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

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

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

Advocacy in action toolkit

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

Assessing deeper learning

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

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

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

The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion

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

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

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

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

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

Adolescent literacy

Is high school tough enough?

Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency

Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook

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

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

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

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

Education watch 2009

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

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

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

Flexible learning options for adult students

Measuring up 2008

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

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

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

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

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

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

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

High school-to-college policy study: Project summary

McNair scholar handbook

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

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

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

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

Early college high school: Opportunity for a lifetime

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

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

The national articulation and transfer network

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

The Breakthrough High School project

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

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

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

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

Education Commission of the States: Database of virtual high schools

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

Middle College National Consortium

Schools to watch

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

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

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

America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study

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

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

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

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

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

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

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

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

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

What works for Latino students

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

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

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

Foundation for excellent schools

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

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

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students

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

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

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

What works clearinghouse

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students

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

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

First generation college students: A literature review

Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs

Indiana Academy distance learning: 2005-06

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school

Dual Credit in Indiana - 2005

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

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

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

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

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

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

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

Roadmap for ensuring America's future

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide

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

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

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

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

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

The undereducated American

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

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

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

Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth

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

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

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

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

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

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

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

Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children

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

Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics

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

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

The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west

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

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

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

The impact of adavanced placement incentive programs

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

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

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

Indiana Dual Credit Provider Directory

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

Project U-turn

Dual credit in Indiana: Policy barriers identified by the CELL high school-to-college transition project

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

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

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

Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children

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

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

Education pays 2010

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

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

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

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

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

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

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

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

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

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

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

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

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

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

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

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

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

Insuring college failure risk

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

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

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

Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!

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

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education

Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement

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

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

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

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

NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide

What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?

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

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

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

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

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

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

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transforming education in America

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

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

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

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

Family factors and student outcomes

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

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

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

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

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

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

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

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

Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials

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

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

College readiness and high school-to-college success

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

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

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

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

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

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

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Portrait in numbers

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

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

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

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

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

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

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

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

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

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

Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success

The condition of education in brief: 2005

Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis

Center on Education and the Workforce

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

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

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

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

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

Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year

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

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Dual credit in Indiana Q & A

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

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

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

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

Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers

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

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

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

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

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

Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers

State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps

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

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

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

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

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

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

Building capacity for reconnecting youth

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

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

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

A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

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

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

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

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

Parents' guide to student success

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

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

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

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

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

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

African American achievement in America

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

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

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

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

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

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

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

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

CPS: A leader in AP growth

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

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

Primary progress, secondary challenge

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

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

American student achievement institute

Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program

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

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

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

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

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

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

Engaging students, challenging the odds

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

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

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

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

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

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

College learning for the new global century

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Financing early colleges for native youth

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

Center for Student Opportunity

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

Indiana's dropout prevention tool-kit: A legislative primer

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

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

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

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

Economic mobility project

Academic competitiveness grants

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect

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

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

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

Indiana Core Transfer Library

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

Access to success initiative

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

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

Resources for intermediaries: Developing a budget for early college

Evaluation of the early college high school initiative

High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college

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

'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards

Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities

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

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

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

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

Ivy Tech programs: Fast track to college and double up for college

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

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

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

Community colleges under stress

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

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

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

A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

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

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis

Official cohort default rates for schools

Deciding on postsecondary education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

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

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

The hidden costs of community colleges

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

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

Improving the odds for failing schools

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

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

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

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

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

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

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

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

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

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

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

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

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

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

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

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

The first year of high school

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

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

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

The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

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

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

College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet

K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program

Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program

Cracking the credit hour

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

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

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

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

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

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

10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress

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

Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

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

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

Sizing up state standards: 2008

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs

Campaign for High School Equity

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

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

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

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

The state of learning disabilities 2009

SREB Factbook on higher education

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

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

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

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

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

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

New England Journal of Higher Education

Science and mathematics education indicators

Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card

Condition of education 2008

The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act

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

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

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

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

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

National Council of La Raza

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

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

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

Learning in a new key

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence

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

Colorado Reports

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

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

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

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

YMCA

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

States' progress toward high school restructuring

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

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

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

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Economic mobility of black and white families

Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

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

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

A Better Chance.org

Enrollment status and outcomes

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

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

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

Creating and sustaining early college high schools

The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

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

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

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

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

The early college high school concept: Requisites for success

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

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

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

Indian students and college preparation

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

Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Education and incarceration

Catching the Dream

Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth

Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment

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

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

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

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

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

Helping Teens Succeed

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

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

Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college

What kind of test preparation is best?

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

Gender gap grows

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

National Association of Street Schools

Puente Project

Early college high school initiative: Core principles

Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program

Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)

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

Educational needs index

The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve

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

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools

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

Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform

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

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

Latino youth and the pathway to college

High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice

College success programs

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

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

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

Latino achievement in America

Indiana University: Advance college project

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

National college access network

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

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

ESEA Briefing Book

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

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

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

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

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

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

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

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

America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits

National Coalition for College Completion

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students

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

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

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

What do you want in an afterschool program?

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

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

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

Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training

The 2010 Brown Center report on American education

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments

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

Policy implications of trends for Asian American students

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

Developmental education in community colleges

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

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

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

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

The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings

Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success

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

Latino college completion: California

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

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

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

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

The nation's report card: Reading 2009

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

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

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

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

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

Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide

The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities

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

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

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

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

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

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

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

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

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

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

Afterschool Alliance

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

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

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future

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

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

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

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

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

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

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

It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success

College InSight

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

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide

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

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

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

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

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

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

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness

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

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

Common measures for college access and success

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

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

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

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

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

Digest of Education Statistics 2011

The nation's report card: Science 2011

NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

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

Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

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

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

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

On her majesty's school inspection service

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

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

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

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Evaluate mentoring programs

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

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

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

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

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

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

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

Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

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

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

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

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle

Mobility makers

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals

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

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

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

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

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

Effective instructional strategies

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

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

Complete College America

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

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

Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal

Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships

Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

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

The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business

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

Pathways to College Network

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

Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing

Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

The President's Forum

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

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

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

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

The challenge of college readiness

Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement

Preparation for college admissions exams

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

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

The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey

Field guide for improving student success

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

Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools

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

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)

Understanding the common core state standards

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

National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)

Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations

The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education

Building an early childhood professional development system

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

Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete

National Center for Academic Transformation

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities

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

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

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

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

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

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth

Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007

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

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

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

Is school funding fair? A national report card

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

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

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

SparkAction.org

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

15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention

What does research say about 21st century skills?

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level

Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools

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

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

Why Algebra II?

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

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

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

The connection between health and high school dropout

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college

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

A next social contract for the primary years of education

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

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

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

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

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

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

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

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

Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland

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

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs

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

States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards

The nation's report card: Science 2009

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

Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

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

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

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

Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments

Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms

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

The condition of education 2011

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

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

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

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

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

Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

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

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

Latino college completion: Texas

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

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

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

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

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

Planning a school-based mentoring program

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

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

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

Improving community college success

Our impoverished view of education reform

Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

Education Trust, Inc

Achievement in America

School relationships foster success for African American students

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

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

When it comes to school, girls rule

Learning to earn

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

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

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

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

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

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

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

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

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

Measuring up 2006

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

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

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Dual enrollment: Policy issues confronting state policymakers

A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002

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

The connection collection: School-family-community connections database

Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work

School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different

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

The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts

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

Knowledge is power program

Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative

Minority student achievement network

Cal-SOAP

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

The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students

Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991

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

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

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

EPAS®: A system that works

A voice from the middle

Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge

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

Preparing for college

What's wrong with guys?

Digest of Education Statistics

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

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

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

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

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

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

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

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

School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study

Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy

Expanding learning time in high schools

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

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum

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

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

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

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

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

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

Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education

Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities

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

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

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

The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

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

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

Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders

Starfish Initiative

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

School strategies and the "college linking" process: Reconsidering the effects of high schools on college enrollment

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

Encouraging girls in math and science

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

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

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

Windows on achievement and inequality

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

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

Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students

Breaking through: Factsheet

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

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

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

The minds of boys

Earnings by attainment

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

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

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

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

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

Knocking at the college door: California state report

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

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

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

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

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2006

Improving math performance

High school dropouts in America

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

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

A college access contract

Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Accelerated developmental education project

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

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

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006

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

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

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

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

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

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

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

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

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

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

I-STEM Resource Network

Anderson University: ADVANCE

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

Early college high schools: Ben Davis University High School

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

Indiana by the numbers

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

YouthBuild USA

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners

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

What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

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

Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy

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

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

The Everyone Graduates Center

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

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

Education Equality Project

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

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

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

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

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

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

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

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

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

A descriptive study of urban school counseling

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

The future of middle-skill jobs

Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)

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

Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

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

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

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

Operation College Promise

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

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

The global gender gap index: 2011

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

Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations

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

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

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

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

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

A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time

Project WIn-Win

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

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

Student voices: What makes a great teacher?

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

When school stability requires transportation: State considerations

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

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)

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

Why access matters: The community college student body

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

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

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

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

Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools

Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements

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

Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM

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

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

A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future

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

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

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

The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts

States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications

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

Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts

Latino college completion in 50 states

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

Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out

Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

Healthcare

The economic case for higher education

Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California

Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

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

Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century

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

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

A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

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

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

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

Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery

RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning

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

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

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

Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011

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

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

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

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

Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step

Science bound program (for Indianapolis public school students)

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Students earning zero credits

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

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

Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

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

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

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

Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates

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

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

Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies

Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators

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

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

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

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

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

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

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Economic state of young America

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

Kids2College

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program

Raising boys' achievement

Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs

Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education

Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through

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

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

Center for Law and Social Policy

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

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

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

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

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

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

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

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

What works clearinghouse: Middle school math

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

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

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

A call to action: Why America must innovate

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

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

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

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Washington Data and Reports

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

Dream it! Do it!

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

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

More student success: A systemic solution

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)

Education and economic mobility

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

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

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

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

Middle-class schools for all

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

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

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning

How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?

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

Promising practices for community college developmental education

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

Projections of education statistics to 2016

The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools

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

The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools

Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership

Educational equity center at AED

College access: From the inside out

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

Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education

National College Access Program Directory

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

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students

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

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework

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

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

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

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

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do

Adult education participation in 2004-05

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

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

Correctional education facts

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

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

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

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

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

Teaching and learning across the class divide

Educational opportunity for all?

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

Latinos in secondary education

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

ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006

The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

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

The context of "choice" in college pathways

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

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

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

Collegiate learning assessement project

Digest of education statistics: 2006

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

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

African American students and U.S. high schools

Latino students and U.S. high schools

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

Forging new partnerships: Adult and developmental education in community colleges

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

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

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

Does career and technical education affect college enrollment?

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

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

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups

The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction

QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college

What are ACT's college readiness benchmarks?

Effective college transition planning for students with learning disabilities: What does the research tell us?

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

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

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Bridges to Success

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education

Academic pathways to access and student success

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

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

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04

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

Pathways to improving practice: Data-driven pre-college outreach programs

Education watch online

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

Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices

State of college admission 2007

En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes

Prep for prep

OECD Programme for international student assessment

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college

Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement

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

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

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

Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

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

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

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

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Encouraging news for college bound foster youth

Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet

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

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

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

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

Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy

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

Preparing students for success in college

Model college-preparatory curriculum

Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources

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

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

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

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

Projections of education statistics to 2014

GEAR UP

Lumina Foundation for Education

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys

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

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

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

A portrait of school improvement grantees

Latino college completion: Florida

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

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

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

College completion toolkit

Projections of education statistics to 2019

Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts

Staff report to the NACAC Assembly: Early notification study

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

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

Profile of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by control and level of institution

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

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

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

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

State and local policy for reconnecting youth

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

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

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

Enrollment management, Inc.: External influences on our practice

The impact of teacher experience

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

Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)

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

Community college and high school partnerships

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

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

Ready by 21: Making quality count

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

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

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

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling

YourWordsToday.org

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

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

Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California

College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.

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

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

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

Global Skills for Global Completion

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

Digest of Education Statistics, 2009

Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison

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

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

Education Trust-West

Tiered intervention on the high school level

How does extended learning time impact student achivement?

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

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

Making graduation a priority

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

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

Evidence-based dropout prevention programs

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

Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes

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

ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways

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

School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning

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

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

Which achievement gap?

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

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

The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else

The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers

Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers

2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

The National Indian Education Study

Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning

Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:

RTI Progress monitoring tools chart

FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success

Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students

The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010

From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees

Grantmakers for Education

Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources

No Excuses University Network

Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

2009 ACT National and State Scores

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education

NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports

And after high school? A pan-Canadian study of grade 12 students in French-language schools in minority settings: Educational aspirations and plans to pursue a career in their home regions -- Executive Summary

Projections of education statistics to 2018

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

Family firsts: Reach for your dreams

Redefining college readiness

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation

Coalition for Evidence-based Policy

The productivity argument for investing in young children

2009 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Breakthrough Collaborative

Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities

Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

Early college placement testing opportunities in Maine

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools

Addressing study error in the random assignment national evaluation of Upward Bound: Do the conclusions change?

On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State

The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships

Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy

Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states

Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education

Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary

Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs

Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.

2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers

2012 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success

2012 National survey of school counselors

The common core state standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education

Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale

Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care

Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns

Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

Does America promote mobility as well as other nations?

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house

Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions

Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies

Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations

Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

The American middle class, income inequality, and the strength of our economy: New evidence in economics

Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling

Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce

The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals

The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges

Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district

Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools

The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory

Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive

Bullying and open enrollment

12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012

Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education

Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity

Information constraints and financial aid policy

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America

Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

Common core state standards alignment

TIered interventions in high schools: Using preliminary 'lessons learned' to guide ongoing discussion

2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators

10 Pieces of advice from students for teachers

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens

Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids

Early warning indicator systems

Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students

Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions

What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs

Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

Hearing on non-traditional students

Early warning system middle grades tool

A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research

Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University

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

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms

Achieve Standards Alignment Tool

The effects of public support on college attainment

Alignment and the states: Three approaches to aligning the national assessment of educational progress with state assessments, other assessements, and standards

How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools

A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool

Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out

The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century

Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Overcoming doubts about online learning

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts

Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

Financial education in TRIO programs

Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?

A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:

How much are college students borrowing?

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)

The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference

Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

College readiness for all toolbox

Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators

Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education

Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?

State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college

Survey Of Secondary School Students

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009

The work-based learning self assessment tool

The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools

Student Financial Survey: Baseline Results (2001)

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)

Standards in practice: An instructional gap analysis

Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children

Rising by Degrees

National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database

Help wanted: Postsecondary education and training required

A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force