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Author(s):Fry, R
Title:The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
Source:http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/114.pdf
Date:2009
Organization:Pew Hispanic Center
Short Description:Young Latino adults in the United States are more likely to be in school or the work force now than their counterparts were in previous generations.
Annotation:Young Latino adults in the United States are more likely to be in school or the work force now than their counterparts were in previous generations. In 1970, 77% of Hispanics ages 16 to 251 were either working, going to school or serving in the military; by 2007, 86% of Latinos in this coming-of-age group were taking part in these skill-building endeavors, according to a comprehensive analysis of four decades of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
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The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
Advocacy in action toolkit
Transforming education in America
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
The false promise of class-size reduction
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
The undereducated American
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
The impact of teacher experience
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
What educators should learn from ER
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
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
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Center on Education and the Workforce
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Growing What Works Database
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Mind the (other) gap: State profiles
Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
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
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Educational attainment in the United States: 2010 Detailed tables
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Education pays 2010
Which achievement gap?
Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
The National Indian Education Study
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
The College Match Program
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
The toll of the great recession: Childhood poverty among Hispanics sets record, leads nation
State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Learning denied: The case for equitable access to effective teaching in California's largest school district
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
SREB State progress reports 2012
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
The nation's report card: Science 2011
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Healthcare
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Education watch online
Correctional education facts
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society
Jonathan Kozol interview transcript: Source material for "Segregation and its Calamitous Effects, America's "Apartheid" Schools"
The changing landscape of American public education: New students, new schools
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
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
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
Funding Gaps 2006
2003 Graduation rates for 4-year and 2-year Title IV degree granting institutions by sector, race, and gender
Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`
Latinos in secondary education
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Earnings by attainment
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
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
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move
Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform
Smart boys, bad grades
OECD Programme for international student assessment
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Center for Student Opportunity
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Primary progress, secondary challenge
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad
Educational needs index
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Cal-SOAP
The Progress of education reform: Hispanic achievement
El Puente Project
Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
American student achievement institute
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students
Annotated bibliography of minority achievement
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
First generation college students: A literature review
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Our impoverished view of education reform
Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors
Challenges in improving Latino college enrollment: Opportunities for systemic change: Viewpoints from California
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity
Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds
What’s wrong with the guys
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
The value of value-added data
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
SREB Factbook on higher education
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Measuring up 2008
Indiana by the numbers
Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Enrollment status and outcomes
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
White students are racially isolated
College For Every Student
Center for Law and Social Policy
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Windows on achievement and inequality
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
The minds of boys
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
Effective literacy and English language instruction for English learners in the elementary grades
The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color
2006-2007 National directory of scholarships, internships, and fellowships for Latino youth
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Starfish Initiative
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies
Center for native education
Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
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
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
School Redesign Network
The Breakthrough High School project
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Economic state of young America
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
The state of learning disabilities 2009
Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Rising by Degrees
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Education dedicated to black males still relevant
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system
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
How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation
Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices
From risk to opportunity: Fulfilling the educational needs of Hispanic Americans in the twenty-first century
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004
Rural education at a glance
Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope
Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured
Raising and educating healthy boys: A report on the growing crisis in boys' education
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
Foundation for excellent schools
Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative
Minority student achievement network
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Access to postsecondary education for undocumented students
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
National College Access Program Directory
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates
Bridging the gap between high school and college
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
Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
CPS: A leader in AP growth
Bridge Partnership
The changing world of work for men (and women)
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
Smart boys, bad grades.com
Diversity, school, family, and community connections
Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice
Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
Indiana State Profile
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
Latinos in graduate education
Latinos in undergraduate education
Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds
Expanding learning time in high schools
Leading by example
What's wrong with guys?
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)
Average ACT® score for the high school class of 2006 is the highest since 1991
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap
Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
The unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How negotiated changes unravel the law
Voices in urban education
A new way on school integration
Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
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
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Highlights from TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and science achievement of U.S. fourth and eighth-grade students in an international context
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
California District Report Cards
Net migration from Mexico falls to zero-and perhaps less?
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
8th Annual AP report to the nation
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
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
America's youth: Transitions to adulthood
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Hispanic poverty rate highest in new supplemental census measure
Hispanic college enrollment spikes, narrowing gaps with other groups
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
Extending foster care to age 21: Weighing the costs to government against the benefits to youth
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Is school funding fair? A national report card
Immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's education at home and at school in 1999-2000
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Improving community college success
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Latino college completion: State series
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
Closing the gap between high school and college
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Family factors and student outcomes
College InSight
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Insuring college failure risk
Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
Six reasons the Keep our Educators Working Act should be amended to require states receiving funds to end seniority-only teacher-layoff policies
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
The achievement gap where you live
Afterschool Alliance
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college
State of metropolitan America: On the front lines of demographic transformation
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
A next social contract for the primary years of education
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