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Author(s):Howard, M.
Title:Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Source:http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/84/07/8407.pdf
Date:2010
Organization:Education Commission of the States
Short Description:This policy brief looks at Transition and Alignment — two key components for creating continuity across early learning and the early grades and provides examples of successful state efforts.
Annotation:The Obama administration is calling for more continuity across the education spectrum and providing funding opportunities for states, districts and schools to implement new policy and practice that builds linkages between levels of learning from preschool through higher education and workforce development. This policy brief looks at Transition and Alignment — two key components for creating continuity across early learning and the early grades and provides examples of successful state efforts.
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Evidence-based Interventions/Promising Practices
P-16 (Pre K - Grade 16) Alignment and Initiatives
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Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Tennessee higher education commission: The case for P-16 education in Tennessee
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Detail to the key components of Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student preparation for college success
Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school
A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
Education watch 2006 state summary reports
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Dropout prevention practice guide
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Early intervention program and college partnerships
Federal Education Budget Project
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
I-STEM Resource Network
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
The accountability illusion
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
IPEDS Data Center
American Diploma Project Network: State Profiles
Field guide for improving student success
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
How bold is "bold?" Responding to Race to the Top with a bold, actionable plan on teacher effectiveness
Aligning secondary and postsecondary education: Lessons from the past
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Indiana's Growth Model (for measuring student achievement)
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Reinventing alternative education: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for mathematics (2004)
A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for English (2004)
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
Center on Innovation and Improvement
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Research support for school counseling
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains
IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
The US STEM education model (simulation)
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
State characteristics: Kindergarten
Closing the gap between high school and college
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Learning what it takes: An initial look at how schools are using early warning data and collaborative response teams to keep all students on track to success
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Smart class-size policies for lean times
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
State aid to nonpublic schools
The state of preschool 2011: State preschool yearbook
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Common Core implementation workbook
Ramp-up to Readiness
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Revamping the teacher evaluation process
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Five things education supporters should know about pension reform
Civic engagement through digital citizenship: Engaging youth in active, participatory citizenship
Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas
Year two of implementing the common core state standards: States' progress and challenges
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
State education agency funding and staffing in the education reform era
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Adolescent literacy
Evaluate mentoring programs
Why rural matters 2011-12: Statistical indicators of the condition of rural education in the 50 states
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Duration and intensity: No time for cutting corners
Western Policy Exchanges
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Operation College Promise
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Assessing deeper learning
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
The nation's report card: Science 2011
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
End-of-course exams
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Promoting work-based learning: Efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
A dozen facts about k-12 education
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Teaching in a learner-centered environment powered by digital learning
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
SREB State progress reports 2012
A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Projections of education statistics to 2019
College completion toolkit
Parents' guide to student success
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later
Update on Indiana school referrenda
Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
A return to the "Mexican room": The segregation of Arizona's English learners
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Measuring inequity in school funding
Think College Indiana!
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Shifting trends in special education
A way forward: A progressive vision for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
The breaking through practice guide
The current status of school counseling outcome research
Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study
Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?
Education Bill Tracking Database
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
SparkAction.org
RTI Action Network: High school resources
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
RTI classification tool and resource locator
Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade
IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention
Education Trust-West
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
New America Foundation Early Education Initiative
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
High school remediation
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Closing the expectations gap 2010
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Growing What Works Database
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes
Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning
Making high school students into "college material"
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
No Child Left Behind - standards, assessment, and accountability
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
Windows on achievement and inequality
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth
Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Kindergarten entrance ages: A 30 year trend analysis
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
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
Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Network news: Focus on P-16 partnerships
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
School Redesign Network
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
Better outcomes for all: Promoting partnerships between Head Start and state Pre-K
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education
Preparing for success: How Head Start helps children with disabilities and their families
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
Education in the age of accountability: A research focus of the Urban Institute
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
Aligned expectations: A closer look at college admissions and placement tests
College access: A framework for systemic program development
Accelerated learning for all
Developing the STEM education pipeline
ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006
Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
More states using the ACT as part of alignment efforts
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Translations for success
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
Orphan Foundation of America
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
The future of public education in New Orleans
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Retooling career and technical education
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care
Reaching all children? Understanding early care and education participation among immigrant families
Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Measuring up on college-level learning
State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards
All over the map: State policies to improve the high school
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
The challenge of access and persistence
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
School and college partnerships: The missing link
Getting it done: Ten steps to a state action agenda
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
P-16 Collaboration in the States
A road map for learning: Improving educational outcomes in foster care: A strategic guide for success in school
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
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
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
The Equity Project
Measuring up 2008
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
College tools for schools
State future workforce gap summaries
EdVisions Cooperative
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Ohio's career development program
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report
More student success: A systemic solution
Building community learning systems: The Columbus learning center
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
Strategic directions in Indiana education
National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
Science and mathematics education indicators
Center for Law and Social Policy
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
Improving accountability in public education
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it
Education watch 2009
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
The President's Forum
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Can the American high school become an avenue of advancement for all?
Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
The productivity argument for investing in young children
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Student Success Skills
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades
Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Why Pathways? A Better Approach to Transforming High School Education in California
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (State Reports)
State test score trends through 2007-08: Has progress been made in raising achievement for students with disabilities?
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
What educators should learn from ER
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use
Education reform 101: A primer on the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
Children's Defense Fund State Factsheets
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:
Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Gold Star School Counseling
Effective instructional strategies
The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
The National Indian Education Study
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Parent engagement toolkit
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
2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
Route 21: 21st century skills information, resources, and community tools
What does research say about 21st century skills?
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
What savings are produced by moving to a four-day school week?
Gender inequalities in education
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
Changing the odds for children and youth community profile: Northern Kentucky: Building a leadership council
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Latino college completion: Florida
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Planning a school-based mentoring program
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
The College Match Program
The case for change in college admissions
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
Dual enrollment for high school students
Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?
Participation and success in the advanced placement program continue to grow in the SREB states
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Focus on the alternative school calendar: Year-round school programs and update on the four-day school week
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
The nation's report card: Science 2009
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Don't stop collaborating - Just stop creating new collaboratives
Are bad schools immortal?
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
First-time Kindergartners in 2010-11: First findings from the Kindergarten rounds of the early childhood longitudinal study, Kindergarten class of 2010-11
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
State high school exit exams: A policy in transition
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
2012 National survey of school counselors
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Supporting education policy and practice through common data standards: A policymaker's guide
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
A tool using data to inform a state early childhood agenda
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
What we know about dual enrollment
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Special education in high school redesign
Federal efforts to improve the lowest-performing schools: District views on school improvement grants
The nation's report card: Findings in brief: Reading and mathematics 2011: National assessment of educational progress at grades 4 and 8
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
2011-12 Federal budget: Department of education overview
Comparability of state local expenditures among schools within districts: A report from the study of school-level expenditures
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
After the stimulus money ends: The status of state k-12 education funding and reforms
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
Is high school tough enough?
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
On the road to success
Competing for school improvement dollars: State grant-making strategies
Opportunities and obstacles: Implementing stimulus-funded school improvement grants in Maryland, Michigan, and Idaho
Why access matters: The community college student body
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
State policy profiles for completion by design
Preparing for college: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
AYP results for 2010-11
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
State responses to the increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Improving the odds for failing schools
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Kindergarten entrance ages: Highlights
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
Data for action 2011
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
Hearing on non-traditional students
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
More time for learning: Student participation in extended day programming at the UCCS Donoghue campus during the 2009-10 school year
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
ETS: The Achievement Gap (website)
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Housing costs, zoning, and access to high quality schools
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
Boosting postsecondary education performance
RTTD Action brief: Establishing the foundational conditions for personalized learning
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
Accountability issues to watch under NCLB waivers
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
What do you want in an afterschool program?
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
The impact of teacher experience
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
Now what? Imperatives and options for common core implementation and governance
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Improving Hispanic achievement: Implications for state policy
Measuring adequate yearly progress: What "other" factors besides reading and math
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
Digital learning now! Ten elements of high quality digital learning
Housing policy is school policy: Economically integrative housing promotes academic success in Montgomery County, Maryland
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
School connectedness and meaningful student participation
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Getting it right: Crafting federal accountability for higher student performance and a stronger America
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
Reentry Policy Council
Getting teacher evaluation right: A brief for policymakers
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
The Future Ready Project
Congressional budget action for fiscal year 2012 and its impact on education funding
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
Expanded measures of school performance
The digital revolution and higher education: College presidents, public differ on value of online education
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
Improving community college success
Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Scaling community college interventions
Implementing common core state standards and assessments: A workbook for state and district leaders
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
The condition of education 2011
Basic concepts and definitions for privacy and confidentiality in student education records
Making graduation a priority
Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs
Indiana Dual Credit Provider Directory
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
How do middle-school grade configurations impact student achievement and behavior?
Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?
Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint
A five year comparison between an extended school year and a conventional year school: Effects on academic achievement
The numbers we need: Bringing balanced scorecards to education data
CRTIEC: Center for RTI in early childhood
Response to Intervention resources for high schools
RTI Progress monitoring tools chart
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)
Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Grantmakers for Education
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools
Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Transforming schools to meet the needs of students: Improving school quality and increasing learning time in ESEA
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
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
The nature of innovation in the community college
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
The connection between health and high school dropout
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Indiana's Cash for College
America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends
Ready by 21
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Project U-turn
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
Retaining teacher talent: Teaching for a living
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Council for Exceptional Children
Engaged learning in a public university: Trends in the undergraduate experience
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal
Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
Advancing STEM learning across the educational pipeline: Statewide efforts in Ohio
NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports
Educational Policy Improvement Center
U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
College readiness for all toolbox
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
The Everyone Graduates Center
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
Perspectives on the key K-12 legislation of 2009
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Interventions for struggling readers
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
Education Equality Project
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers
School funding's tragic flaw
Learn and Serve America
New England Journal of Higher Education
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
Indiana's guide to paying for college
The Kalamazoo Promise
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
The evaluation of enhanced academic instruction in after-school programs: Findings after the first year of implementation
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Indiana Partnerships Center
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)
RTI Action Network
Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Evolving No Child Left Behind
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
Indiana's Response to Intervention (RTI)
Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
Finance and resource issues in high school reform
Overview and inventory of state education reforms
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students
Online interactive kindergarten database
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
The changing landscape of American public education: New students, new schools
Middle Start
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Supporting high school students in the transition to college
Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability
Building the foundation for bright futures: A governors guide to school readiness
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Just for the kids
Recent STEM initiatives
American Indian and Alaska Native children: Findings from the base year of the early childhood longitudinal study, birth cohort
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
P-16: Building a cohesive education system from preschool through postsecondary
Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform
State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
Multiple pathways and state policy: Toward education and training beyond high school
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Education strengthened when treated as a seamless whole
Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
Pathways to college access and success
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
National High School Center
Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success
Ohio early college high school initiative
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
American youth policy forum
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
The family: America's smallest school
Implementing evidence-based practices: six "drivers" of success
Child care and development block grant participation in 2005
The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families
Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
The right data to the right people at the right time: How interoperability helps America's students succeed
Knowing and being known: Personalization as a foundation for student learning
New bet for better schools? Diversifying philanthropic strategies to improve student learnings
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Learning in a new key
Higher education accountability for student learning
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Culture of evidence
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
Value-added analysis and education policy
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying employment readiness skills and the skills for on-the-job success
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Helping Teens Succeed
Project Mentor
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
High school planner: Your guide to planning for college
Distance education
State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments

 

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