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Author(s):Southern Regional Education Board
Title:Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses
Source:http://publications.sreb.org/2010/10V01w_BestPr...
Date:2010
Organization:Southern Regional Education Board
Short Description:Successful schools at all levels provide extra-help strategies to assist students in meeting high standards in both academic and career/technical courses.
Annotation:Successful schools at all levels provide extra-help strategies to assist students in meeting high standards in both academic and career/technical courses. Some schools design a flexible schedule and offer virtual learning opportunities to enable at-risk students to complete high school. Middle grades schools can provide an accelerated curriculum and instructional interventions to prepare more students for rigorous high school studies. Many schools design both summer and before- and after-school programs to close achievement gaps in high school and the middle grades. Administrators, teachers, counselors, graduation coaches and parents at all schools need to join forces to ensure that traditional, innovative and technology-based methods are considered when data show that students need a boost in their studies.
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Achievement Gap
Curriculum/Course-taking/Rigor
Evidence-based Interventions/Promising Practices
High School
High School Graduation/Dropout Prevention
Preparation/College Readiness
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The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Sizing up state standards: 2008
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Doing What Works - Research based education practices online
Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Quality counts 2008
Who graduates in California?
Effective instruction: An inconspicuous strategy for dropout prevention
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Gateway to College
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
Common Core implementation workbook
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
What is "career ready"?
Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts
An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers
What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
2012 National survey of school counselors
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
The first year of high school
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Early college high school initiative: Brochure (2007)
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions
The Kalamazoo Promise
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
The challenge of college readiness
Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Summer Search
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
Small schools project
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Latinos in secondary education
Learning in a new key
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum
QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college
Recommended classes: A great schedule leads to college success
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Middle College National Consortium
Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership
Finance and resource issues in high school reform
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Foundation for excellent schools
Project GRAD
Frequently asked questions regarding Indiana's new high school course and credit requirements
Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates
High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice
Learning to earn
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet
Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom
Vocational mentoring: An experience-based career mentoring program for high school juniors and seniors at risk of not graduating
National Dropout Prevention Centers
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison
Impact of homework on student achievement
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
Postsecondary success
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
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)
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
Evidence-based dropout prevention programs
Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Making graduation a priority
Solutions for America: Dropout prevention
Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis
Project U-turn
Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Early reading proficiency (Leading Indicators Series)
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Closing the expectations gap 2011
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
On her majesty's school inspection service
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Think College Indiana!
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Up to the challenge: The role of career and technical education in college and career readiness
The Future Ready Project
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment
Common core state standards alignment
2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 4: Is achievement improving and are gaps narrowing for Title 1 students?
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Student voices: What makes a great teacher?
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
The condition of college and career readiness 2011
The economic value of opportunity youth
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0
Central Indiana Talent Alliance
Developmental education in community colleges
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
Focus on the alternative school calendar: Year-round school programs and update on the four-day school week
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
The nation's report card: Science 2009
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Gender inequalities in education
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army
Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
The Condition of Education 2010
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Why Algebra II?
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Evidence from California Partnership Academies: One Model of Pathways
Council for Exceptional Children
State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
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
Overcoming doubts about online learning
Growing What Works Database
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database
Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Pathways to College Network
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
High school students at risk: The challenge of dropouts and pushouts
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools
Encouraging news for college bound foster youth
The education liason model
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation
Indiana's high school diploma requirements
Making good on a promise: What policymakers can do to support the educational persistence of dropouts
Success for All Foundation
Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused
High schools for the new millennium
The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Smart districts, from Voices in Urban Education
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04
Indian students and college preparation
Homework helper: Help your child take control
Institute for Educational Leadership
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models
A balanced course load: Classes, electives, college prep—and enjoying it
Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace
College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
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
Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Database of 21st century skills assessments
Student poll: High school students want parents to be more involved in college planning
Retooling career and technical education
What works for Latino students
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
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
Standards for quality online teaching
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Turning Points
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study
Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
Center on Reinventing Public Education
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California
Education Equality Project
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Education watch 2009
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
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
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Breakthrough Collaborative
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Interventions for struggling readers
2009 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Encouraging girls in math and science
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
What works clearinghouse: Middle school math
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Science and mathematics education indicators
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Good Shepherd Services
Raising boys' achievement
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
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
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
2012 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
The nation's report card: Science 2011
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
The common core state standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Charter schools in SREB states: Critical questions and next steps for states
Putting a price tag on the Common Core: How much will smart implementation cost?
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
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
Framework for 21st century learning
Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Scholarship Program
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
All Kinds of Minds
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
HomeworkSpot
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
EdVisions Cooperative
State future workforce gap summaries
California State University: Early assessment program
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Smaller Learning Communities Annotated Bibliography
Indiana Graduation Plan Statute
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
Intervention Central
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
Creating a college-going culture guide
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
High school - Advanced placement
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda
The effects of cognitive-behavioral interventions on dropout for youth with disabilities
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability
State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out
Student Success Skills
College readiness for all toolbox
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Field guide for improving student success
Redefining college readiness
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture
Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
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
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements
Background on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models
Think again: The connection between education and true independence
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Gallup student poll national report
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
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
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006
Rigor and relevance: A new vision for career and technical education
Career academy national standards of practice
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
Accelerated learning for all
Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum
Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
ACT high school profile report: The graduation class of 2007 (Indiana)
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
Rethinking high school: Five profiles of innovative models for student success
NCLB and high schools
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
Toward ensuring a smooth transition into high school
Handling test stress: Practical tips to help your child
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
101 Great books: Recommended for college-bound readers
Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience
ACT high school profile report: National
ACT high school profile report: Indiana
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
EPAS®: A system that works
Preparing for college
Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
College: Making It Happen
My College Options
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Choosing smart electives: Cultivating interests, strengths, and special talents
Getting college credit before college: The Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) and College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP®)
Quick-start college selection: Pick a baby-step, any baby-step
Results that matter: New technology high school at a glance
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
AIM
Making middle grades work
The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature
America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future
Strategic instruction model
Dual credit and exam-based courses in US public high schools:2002-03
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Pathways to College Network framework: Mutually supportive visions and complementary goals
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
American student achievement institute
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
The postsecondary education experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators
ScholarShop
High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities
Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform
Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors
High school coursework: Policy trends and implications for higher education
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
Where have all the students gone
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
Preparing students for success in college
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Do graduation tests measure up: A closer look at state high school exit exams
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States
Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students
How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Achievement in America
Mentoring at-risk high school students: Evaluation of a school-based program
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
Achieve, Inc.
Indiana University Independent Study Program
Reading between the lines: What ACT reveals about college readiness in reading
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006
The Gates effect
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
North Carolina Early Mathematics Placement Testing
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
2009 ACT National and State Scores
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
A survival analysis of student mobility and retention in Indiana charter schools:
The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Gold Star School Counseling
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Believing the College Dream (Curriculum guide for college planning)
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
The connection between health and high school dropout
The nation's report card: Reading 2009
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Retaining teacher talent: Convergence and contradictions in teachers' perceptions of policy reform ideas
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Early warning systems that support students at risk of dropping out of high school
The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk
Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles
GetMeToCollege.org (How to prepare, pay for, and succeed in college for first-generation college students)
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Education Trust-West
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
SparkAction.org
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
The breaking through practice guide
National Center for Academic Transformation
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas
RTI Progress monitoring tools chart
Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:
Afterschool: A high school dropout prevention tool
Response to Intervention policy
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
College going culture baseline expectations
The achievement gap where you live
Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents
Response to Intervention resources for high schools
RTI Action Network: High school resources
Tiered intervention on the high school level
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do parents need to know?
The condition of education 2011
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
P-20 governance
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
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?
What do you want in an afterschool program?
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
Ready by 21: Making quality count
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
ETS: The Achievement Gap (website)
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Preparing for college: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements
Evaluate mentoring programs
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Operation Military Kids
Five ways education pays initiative
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline

 

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