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Author(s):Holzer, H., and Nightingale, D
Title:Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Source:http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/12/...
Date:2009
Organization:Center for American Progress
Short Description:This paper reviews both the promise of community colleges as a source of skill development for low-income students, as well as the problems that currently limit their success with this population.
Annotation:This paper reviews both the promise of community colleges as a source of skill development for low-income students, as well as the problems that currently limit their success with this population. It then reviews a wide range of efforts by community colleges and states, with funding from private foundations as well as the federal government, to improve enrollments and completion rates among disadvantaged youth and adults.
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Community Colleges
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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
Low-Income Students
Non-traditional Students

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The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Project WIn-Win
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
Boosting college completion for a new economy
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Scaling community college interventions
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Latino college completion: Texas
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
The role of mentoring in college access and success
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
On the road to success
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Operation College Promise
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Cracking the credit hour
What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
Common measures for college access and success
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
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
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
5 Education factors in focus
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0
Three policies to reduce time to degree
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Leveraging data for college completion
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Improving the odds for failing schools
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Western Policy Exchanges
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Gender inequalities in education
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
The Condition of Education 2010
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
National Center for Academic Transformation
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
College InSight
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Minority male student success programs at community colleges
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Developmental education in community colleges
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
CollegeMeasures.org
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
National Council of La Raza
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
The real technology challenge
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research
Accelerated developmental education project
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Distance learning and adults with disabilities
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
Adult learners and new traditions in higher education
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
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
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education
First generation college students: A literature review
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Community colleges under stress
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
The future of middle-skill jobs
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Rising by Degrees
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Summer Search
Opportunity.gov
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students
Making high school students into "college material"
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Transparency by design
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Education & the military spouse: The long road to success
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Deciding on postsecondary education
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Insuring college failure risk
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Growing What Works Database
Time to Completion Web Site
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
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
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
Measuring up 2008
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
Turning around chronically low-performing schools
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
More student success: A systemic solution
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce
Center for Law and Social Policy
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Skills2Compete
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
College For Every Student
New England Journal of Higher Education
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
I-STEM Resource Network
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds
College students working: The choice nexus
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
Data sources for improving college access and success
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Measuring up 2006
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
College learning for the new global century
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Educational needs index
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
Bridge program planning guide
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
Accelerated learning for all
Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
Workers need training, not tough talk
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Economic mobility project
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
Opportunity in America: The role of education
The family: America's smallest school
Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Community college students: Goals, academic preparation, and outcomes
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
Community college and high school partnerships
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Everybody ready for college
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Help wanted: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2018
Center on Education and the Workforce
College for all?
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
The case for change in college admissions
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
The need for institutional fiscal responsibility
Adult College Completion Network
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
The condition of education 2011
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
Cohort default rates in context
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?
From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
What is "career ready"?
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
The condition of education 2012 (Website)
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
California District Report Cards
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
Measuring efficiency in the community college sector
Adoption and adaptation: A framework for institutional reform
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020
Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations
Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Undergraduate teaching faculty: The 2010-11 HERI faculty survey
How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession
Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
2012 SREB Annual Report
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Trends in student aid 2011
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Hard times: College majors, unemployment and earnings: Not all college degrees are created equal
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Latino college completion: State series
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Student success in higher education
A sound investment: The community college dividend
Research support for school counseling
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators
Women Employed
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
SREB/Go Alliance
A paradox of education progress
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes (Pathways to College Network Issue Brief)
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges
A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
The effects of public support on college attainment
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Paving the way through paid internships: A proposal to expand educational and economic opportunities for low-income college students
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes
Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning
The nature of innovation in the community college
The connection between health and high school dropout
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs
Closing the gap between high school and college
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference
Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
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
Framing new terrain: Older adults & higher education
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
The Breakthrough High School project
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Retooling career and technical education
Institutional research and the culture of evidence at community colleges
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?
Economic mobility of black and white families
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Who graduates in California?
Enrollment status and outcomes
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
Education and economic competitiveness
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
YMCA
Benchmarks: Indicators of effective educational practice
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
Colorado Reports
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position
UA Adult Focus
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
Improving educational opportunties for students who work
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Nontraditional undergraduates
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Student African American Brotherhood
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
What's wrong with guys?
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Setting the stage: Adults in Higher Education
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Just for the kids
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society
Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us
Student athletes with learning disabilities: A model for effective supports
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
Center for Student Opportunity
Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay
Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
The context of "choice" in college pathways
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Adult education participation in 2004-05
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Understanding recent changes in child poverty
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults
The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
Gender gap grows
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary
The art of student retention
Bridge Partnership
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
College success programs
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
Lumina Foundation for Education
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
Condition of education 2008
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Diverse issues in higher education
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
The Fortune Society: Prisoner Re-entry
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
Adult learners: A data and policy perspective
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
The state of American manhood
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
College access and success state data
21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide
Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being
Economic state of young America
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
State future workforce gap summaries
Indiana by the numbers
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
The work-based learning self assessment tool
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
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
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Financial education in TRIO programs
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Trends in the higher education labor force: Identifying changes in worker composition and productivity
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all

 

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