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Author(s):American RadioWorks
Title:Rising by Degrees
Source:http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/featu...
Date:2009
Organization:American RadioWorks
Short Description:Rising by Degrees tells the story of Latino students working towards a college degree—and why it’s so hard for them to get what they want.
Annotation:The United States is facing a dramatic demographic challenge: Young Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the population, and they are the least likely to graduate from college. Experts say the future of the American economy is at stake, because higher education is essential in the 21st century economy. Rising by Degrees tells the story of Latino students working towards a college degree—and why it’s so hard for them to get what they want.
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Community Colleges
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Latino/Hispanic
Low-Income Students
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Non-traditional Students
Persistence/Retention
Social and Economic Benefits of College/Economic Development
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Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
The real technology challenge
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
Racial disparities and the new federalism
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Center for Law and Social Policy
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Condition of education 2008
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Gateway to College
21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
The fiscal impacts of college attainment
ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Commission to Build a Healthier America
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
Federal access policies and higher education for working adults
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
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
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Latino college completion in 50 states
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Prison vs. Princeton
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Hard times: College majors, unemployment and earnings: Not all college degrees are created equal
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Operation College Promise
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Most Americans see college as essential to getting a good job
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Latino college completion: California
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student
How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
Developmental education in community colleges
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Latino college completion: Texas
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
A sound investment: The community college dividend
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Understanding the working college student
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Center on Education and the Workforce
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
The breaking through practice guide
Community College 2.0
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Pew Hispanic Center Country of Origin Profiles
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
Higher education budgets and the global recession
Global Skills for Global Completion
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials
College InSight
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
National Center for Academic Transformation
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's education at home and at school in 1999-2000
Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
Children of immigrants: 2008 state trends update
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
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
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
The College Completion Agenda
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Ten facts about the recovery
FIve ways ed pays: Five powerful ways a college degree can transform your life and your lifestyle
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Labor market returns to sub-baccalaureate credentials: How much does a community college degree or certificate pay?
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
The College Match Program
2011 Kids count data book: State profiles of child well-being:
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08
The toll of the great recession: Childhood poverty among Hispanics sets record, leads nation
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
Advocacy in action toolkit
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
America's youth: Transitions to adulthood
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends
American Association of Community Colleges 2011 Advocacy Toolkit Factsheet
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Opportunity.gov
Ups and downs: Does the American economy still promote upward mobility?
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
ACE Online Information Center
Help wanted: Postsecondary education and training required
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Investing in lasting change: Productivity and U.S. higher education
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
State future workforce gap summaries
Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates
Institute for a Competitive Workforce
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
U.S. population projections: 2005-2050
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
Adult learners: A data and policy perspective
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Project Complete
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
State higher education finance: FY 2004
Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era
Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers
What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education
Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Education pays 2004: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Is more better? The impact of postsecondary education on the social and economic well-being of American society
Access to community college for undocumented immigrants: A guide for state policy makers
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students
Immigration and higher education: Institutional responses to changing demographics
Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
Undocumented immigrants: Facts and figures
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
Education and incarceration
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
Ensuring academic success for English learners
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
Center for Student Opportunity
English language learners: Boosting academic achievement
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
Educational Attainment in the United States 2006
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Nontraditional undergraduates
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
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
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
Postsecondary Access and Success
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
The national articulation and transfer network
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
The path to prosperity: A policy of investment
Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world
A call to action: Why America must innovate
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Degree attainment
Programme for international assessment (PISA): 2006 Results
Education and economic competitiveness
What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research
Accelerated developmental education project
Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005
Reaching all children? Understanding early care and education participation among immigrant families
Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Where are the Black scientists?
Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students
A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
How diversity affects teaching and learning
AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Career and technical education's role in American competitiveness
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy
The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay
Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
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)
Student African American Brotherhood
Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
African American students and U.S. high schools
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years
Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
The nation's dropout crisis: Indiana's tool-box to help students succeed
The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
El Puente Project
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
Access to the Baccalaureate initiative: A clear path to college
American FactFinder
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001
College learning for the new global century
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
Catching the Dream
Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Work first, study second: Adult undergraduates who combine employment and postsecondary enrollment
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
Disconnected youth: Educational pathways to reconnection
21st century skills for 21st century jobs
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
U.S. immigration: Trends and implications for schools
Solutions for our future.org
Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education
Undocumented immigrants: Myths and reality
A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Windows on achievement and inequality
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
The male achievement gap in Indiana
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
New England Journal of Higher Education
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
McNair scholar handbook
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
Promising practices for community college developmental education
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
Enrollment status and outcomes
Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America
Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
National Center on Education and the Economy
Diverse issues in higher education
"Careers for the future" education program
One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Young workers: A lost decade
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research
Research on retention and attrition
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
IPEDS Data Center
Summer Search
Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Pathways to economic mobility: Key indicators
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Value of a college education (calculator)
US Census Bureau: Educational attainment data
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
California District Report Cards
On the road to success
Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Hispanic poverty rate highest in new supplemental census measure
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Women Employed
Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Hispanic student enrollments reach new high in 2011
Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America
An examination of the information technology job market
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Common measures for college access and success
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Innovation in higher education: Public opinion survey results
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Community college student survey
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
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)
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
The role of mentoring in college access and success
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Gender inequalities in education
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Grantmakers for Education
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
Maximizing the potential of older adults: Benefits to state economies and individual well-being
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students

 

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