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Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
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2010
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Institute for Higher Education Policy
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This synthesis report, Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program, extensively summarizes multiple studies conducted on a Washington State-based program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with the College Success Foundation and 16 local high schools.
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This synthesis report, Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program, extensively summarizes multiple studies conducted on a Washington State-based program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with the College Success Foundation and 16 local high schools. Research showed that pre-college interventions are needed to touch on all barriers facing low-income students in Washington State when they attempt to obtain a baccalaureate degree. In addition to providing scholarships, programmatic components include early college awareness activities, high school redesign and reforms, and mentoring.
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Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Education watch 2009
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
More student success: A systemic solution
Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
College tools for schools
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
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
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
No Excuses University Network
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Quality counts 2008
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Just for the kids
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Accelerated learning for all
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
SREB/Go Alliance
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Transforming education in America
State policy profiles for completion by design
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
Employer-paid tuition advancement for low-income workers
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Think College Indiana!
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Saving now and saving later: How high school reform can reduce the nation's wasted remediation dollars
Gender inequalities in education
A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002
Completion matters: The high cost of low community college graduation rates
Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Adolescent literacy
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Improving the odds for failing schools
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Increasing return on investment from federal student aid
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Helping Teens Succeed
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
College learning for the new global century
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
The Breakthrough High School project
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
A college access contract
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Pathways to college access and success
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Measuring up 2006
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Cal-SOAP
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
High school remediation
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders
Global Skills for Global Completion
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
"Careers for the future" education program
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
McNair scholar handbook
Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges
GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage
I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
Adult college completion toolkit
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
What is "career ready"?
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance
The undereducated American
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Latino college completion: California
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
The hidden costs of community colleges
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Center on Education and the Workforce
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
The college completion agenda: State policy guide
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
Evaluating programs for community college students: How do we know what works?
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
ESEA Briefing Book
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary 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
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Windows on achievement and inequality
Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Strategic directions in Indiana education
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults
Center for Law and Social Policy
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
New England Journal of Higher Education
Flexible learning options for adult students
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
State future workforce gap summaries
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
What educators should learn from ER
Project U-turn
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
The nature of innovation in the community college
Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
Pathways to College Network
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
College InSight
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
What works clearinghouse
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success
Involving families in high school and college expectations
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success
Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Bridging the gap between high school and college
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Postsecondary education opportunity
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
Educational needs index
Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
College success programs
The American diploma project: Overview of research
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
High school - Advanced placement
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
States' progress toward high school restructuring
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
National Council of La Raza
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Recent STEM initiatives
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Expanding learning time in high schools
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
Project Mentor
College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
College Access: Indiana
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
Student success in higher education
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Buying college: What consumers need to know
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates
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
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide
Ready by 21 case study: Massachusetts
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
The College Completion Agenda
Grantmakers for Education
Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
Designing high quality evaluation systems for high school teachers: Challenges sand potential solutions
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
Evaluate mentoring programs
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions
Project WIn-Win
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
Latino college completion: Texas
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
What we know about dual enrollment
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Why access matters: The community college student body
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Sustaining service learning in your school: Staying the course
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
Addressing the needs of adult learners
Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
EPAS®: A system that works
College guide for students with disabilities
Distance education
Twenty things you need to know about financing college
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Engaging students, challenging the odds
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Educational vouchers for universal preschools
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Postsecondary Access and Success
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
Learning in a new key
Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama
Colorado Reports
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The Kalamazoo Promise
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
The real technology challenge
The future of public education in New Orleans
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
Orphan Foundation of America
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Starfish Initiative
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Preparing students for success in college
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Primary progress, secondary challenge
National High School Center
National inventory of academic pathways
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education
National college access network
Indiana higher education opportunity data book
Center for Student Opportunity
New Technology High School postsecondary student success study
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Catching the Dream
Middle Start
California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Foundation for excellent schools
Success for All Foundation
Does public funding for higher education matter?
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
Complete College America
Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention
Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Expanding Pathways: Transforming High School Education in California
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success
Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education
Time to Completion Web Site
Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
College Savings Foundation
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
What does research say about 21st century skills?
How does extended learning time impact student achivement?
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Dropout prevention practice guide
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
The future workforce of Indiana
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Doing What Works - Research based education practices online
Indiana college success coalition
Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Condition of education 2008
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana
Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College
National Center for Learning Disabilities
The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
Campaign for High School Equity
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Family firsts: Reach for your dreams
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
SREB Factbook on higher education
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
College readiness for all toolbox
Breakthrough Collaborative
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs
Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Common Core implementation workbook
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes
Common measures for college access and success
The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
Cracking the credit hour
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Positive student outcomes in community schools: Providing services that meet the many needs of students and parents
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Bullying and open enrollment
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
Latino college completion in 50 states
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
On her majesty's school inspection service
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
Pell Institute: TRIO clearinghouse
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
Scaling community college interventions
Implementing common core state standards and assessments: A workbook for state and district leaders
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region
Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
Early warning indicator systems
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Assessing deeper learning
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Mobility makers
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
National Center on Intervention: RTI state database
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
The Condition of Education 2010
Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)
Response to Intervention policy
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Attendance counts: Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
Building an early childhood professional development system
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
What do you want in an afterschool program?
Community college student survey
The degree qualifications profile
Closing the expectations gap 2011
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
A detection model of college withdrawal
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need
Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students
Transfer and articulation policies
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Facilitating student learning through contextualization
Research support for school counseling
College completion toolkit
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
The condition of education 2011
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
Latino college completion: Florida
Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
The impact of peers on college preparation: A review of the literature
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Creating a college-going culture: A resource guide
College-going cultures in urban high schools
The state of learning disabilities 2009
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
The Everyone Graduates Center
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Common Core State Standards Initiative
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture
Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
National School Lunch Program: State-level data FFY1989 to FFY2008
From high school to the future: The pathway to 20
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Opportunity.gov
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Meeting the invention challenge
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes
Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)
Breaking through: Factsheet
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Diverse issues in higher education
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Programs at higher education institutions for disadvantaged precollege students
For every 100 girls...
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Federal Education Budget Project
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
The Equity Project
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
California State University: Early assessment program
2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)
Indiana by the numbers
YouthBuild USA
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment
Community colleges under stress
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
Fixing No Child Left Behind
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
The connection between health and high school dropout
Indiana Dual Credit Provider Directory
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Improving access to higher education by promoting saving
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization
Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information
The role of guidance in post-secondary planning
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
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
Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College
Closing the access gap: Does information matter?
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
Indiana Growth Model Factsheet
Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Effective instructional strategies
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform
2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions
Financial education in TRIO programs
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
Strategic instruction model
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors
Montana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Bridge Partnership
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Ohio early college high school initiative
What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
KnowHow2GO
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
Questbridge
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars
Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement
The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana
High Tech High Foundation
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
American Indian higher education consortium
College is possible
GEAR UP
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America
Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different
Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students
TRIO Programs
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
Just and efficient college finance
Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states
Measuring up 2004
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