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Author(s):Indiana Department of Education
Title:Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement
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From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Closing the expectations gap 2007: An annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and work
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
State education reforms – Standards, assessment, and accountability
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)
Best practices and programs in career and technical education
A road map for learning: Improving educational outcomes in foster care: A strategic guide for success in school
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Middle College National Consortium
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
The PISA 2003 assessment framework: Mathematics, reading, science and problem solving knowledge and skills
Common core of data: Information on public schools and school districts in Indiana
All over the map: State policies to improve the high school
Education reform resources
NCHEMS information center
College Mentors for Kids
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
School counselors by state, 2002
Discovery Education Homework Help
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Windows on achievement and inequality
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates
The 4th annual AP report to the nation
For every 100 girls...
Learn and Serve America: National Service Learning Clearinghouse
Network for Good
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
Central Indiana Educational Service Center
The future of public education in New Orleans
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying career exploration and planning skills in the achievement of life career goals
Knowing how and where to obtain information about the world of work and post-secondary training/education
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
The funding gap 2007
The funding gap (Spanish version)
Orphan Foundation of America
Projections of education statistics to 2016
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
School funding's tragic flaw
Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education
Sizing up state standards: 2008
The transformative individual school counseling model: An accountability model for urban school counselors
Black Alliance for Educational Options
California State University: Early assessment program
The Equity Project
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
National School Lunch Program: State-level data FFY1989 to FFY2008
Update on Indiana school referrenda
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
Database of Indiana school referenda
Which achievement gap?
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Counseling Outfitters
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
The nation's report card: Science 2009
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Parents' guide to student success
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
The economic value of higher teacher quality
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Early warning indicator systems
Expanded measures of school performance
Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
Federal policy guidance issued on the rights of undocumented school children
Don't count us out: How an overreliance on accountability could undermine the public's confidence in schools, business, government and more
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts
State Policies Affecting the “Adult Re-Entry Pipeline” in Postsecondary Education: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
On her majesty's school inspection service
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
Bullying and open enrollment
Five things education supporters should know about pension reform
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Data for action 2011
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment reading 2011
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
A critical moment: Child and youth homelessness in our nation's schools
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Common Core implementation workbook
Putting a price tag on the Common Core: How much will smart implementation cost?
MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Smart class-size policies for lean times
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
RTTD guidance: Implementing continuous improvement metrics and strategies for the foundational conditions for personalized learning
The common core state standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
State high school exit exams: A policy in transition
The common core standards: What do they mean for out-of-school time?
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
Spaces of inclusion? Teachers' perceptions of school communities with differing student racial & socioeconomic contexts
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Unequal education: Federal loophole enables lower spending on students of color
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
2012 National survey of school counselors
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
A dozen facts about k-12 education
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
State aid to nonpublic schools
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
NAEP Science 2011 State Snapshot Reports
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Increasing teacher diversity: Strategies to improve the teacher workforce
Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Kindergarten entrance ages: Highlights
The road to high-quality early education
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
ETS: The Achievement Gap (website)
Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Principal-counselor toolkit
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Congressional budget action for fiscal year 2012 and its impact on education funding
The Future Ready Project
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Think College Indiana!
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids
Operation Military Kids
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
7th Annual AP report to the nation
P-20 governance
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Funding education equitably: The "comparability provision" the move to fair and transparent school budgeting systems
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Are bad schools immortal?
Grantmakers for Education
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD): Responsiveness to Intervention (links to many resources)
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Improving teacher quality: Here's how (guidebook)
Clearinghouse on foster youth and transition
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Measuring adequate yearly progress: What "other" factors besides reading and math
Now what? Imperatives and options for common core implementation and governance
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
Education and achievement: A focus on Latino "immigrant" children
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
Indiana's Response to Intervention (RTI)
The role of the school counselor in the new era of RTI
Think college? Me? Now?
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Intervention Central
National League of Cities
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Study of the effectiveness and efficiency of charter schools in Indiana
Homeschooling research and scholarship
1.5 Million homeschooled students in the United States in 2007
Condition of education 2008
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
School improvement through data-driven decision making
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools
State future workforce gap summaries
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Dropout prevention practice guide
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
Education in the age of accountability: A research focus of the Urban Institute
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying employment readiness skills and the skills for on-the-job success
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Who graduates in California?
North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer
My Child's Future (MyChildsFuture.org)
Mental health in school and school improvement: Current status, concerns, and new directions
K-12 Career development curriculum framework
Strategic directions in Indiana education
Comparison of Indiana eleventh-grade students who have career plans with those who don't
Indiana Department of Workforce Development
College For Every Student
Ivy Tech programs: Fast track to college and double up for college
Driving forces on the road to re-entry
How-To-Study.com
The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting career and technical education with the college and career readiness agenda
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations
Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the common core of data: School years 2001-02 and 2002-03
American student achievement institute
ScholarShop
Success for All Foundation
Indiana annual state report card
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform
The boys project
Finance and resource issues in high school reform
Strategic instruction model
Hoosiers on Jupiter
Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness
Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability
National clearinghouse for educational facilities
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Bridging the gap between high school and college
High Tech High Foundation
Academic pathway inventories
College results graduation report generator
Miles to go: Louisiana
Voices in urban education
Middle Start
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Reading--Young children's achievement and classroom experiences
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
An historical overview of revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary education, by state: Fiscal years 1990-2002
Institute for Educational Leadership
Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
LearnMore Indiana Resource Center
Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Student-to-counselor ratios 2006
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004
The proficiency illusion
The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Higher education accountability for student learning
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning
College Savings Foundation
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.
The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education
U.Select - Your Guide to College Transfer
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
BrainTrack College and University Directory
State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates
The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk
Bitter pill, better formula: Toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for ESEA Title 1, Part A
Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
State policies on homeschooling
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Family factors and student outcomes
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
College InSight
Committee for Economic Development (CED)
Indiana Dual Credit Provider Directory
A five year comparison between an extended school year and a conventional year school: Effects on academic achievement
School turnaround teachers: Competencies for success
Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
Parent engagement toolkit
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement
A framework for a multi-state human capital development data system
Alternative schools: What's in a name?
The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Gauging the gaps: A deeper look at student achievement
Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
No Excuses University Network
Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education
Recommendations for state postsecondary data systems: A report from state data experts
Background and context for equity audits
Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Campaign for High School Equity
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
National Postsecondary Education Cooperative
Parsing the achievement gap II
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
How do American students measure up? Making sense of international comparisons
Perspectives on the key K-12 legislation of 2009
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
The state of learning disabilities 2009
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Assessing patterns of resource distribution: An online tool to analyze school district budgeting
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
Student Success Skills
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs