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Author(s):	Lovitt, T., and Emerson, J.
Title:	Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Source:	http://www.ncset.org/publications/info/NCSETInf...
Date:	2008
Organization:	National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
Short Description:	Casey Family Programs interviewed eight former foster youth who recently graduated from college. Their perspectives on going to college and obtaining a degree despite numerous barriers presents an opportunity learn how other young adults like them might be better supported.
Annotation:	All young people, including foster youth and youth with disabilities, can succeed academically given adequate support and advocacy from educators, professionals, and their caregivers. Casey Family Programs interviewed eight former foster youth who recently graduated from college. Their perspectives on going to college and obtaining a degree despite numerous barriers presents an opportunity learn how other young adults like them might be better supported.
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Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California

Adolescent literacy

Complexity in college admission: The barriers between aspiration and enrollment for lower-income students

Mobility makers

Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers

Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools

Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11

Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes

Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty

Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities

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

Accomodating student veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder: Tips for campus faculty and staff

Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative

Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs

The Future Ready Project

The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?

Early warning indicator systems

Flexible learning options for adult students

The Equity Project

Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders

Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary

Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help

Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis

Youth transition funders group

College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences

Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)

Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence

An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test

The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships

The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction

The education success program

Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education

Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school

National Center for Learning Disabilities

More student success: A systemic solution

Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning

National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years

Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect

What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Meeting the invention challenge

Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students

Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs

Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities

Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources

Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships

A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity

Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College

Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success

College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts

Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)

Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school

Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)

Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

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

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future

Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?

Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes

College success programs

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college

Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative

Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine

Colorado Reports

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam

Alabama education quick facts 2007

Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

Engaging students, challenging the odds

College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over

Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs

Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies

College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families

Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals

Common measures for college access and success

Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students

Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs

Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities

Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs

Distance learning and adults with disabilities

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students

Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs

Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance

Accelerated learning for all

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002

The national articulation and transfer network

Access to success initiative

Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action

Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school

Orphan Foundation of America

The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting ready, getting in, and getting through college: Expanding options for low-income students

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

A college access contract

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Improving education outcomes for foster youth: The Guardian Scholars Project Year 1

Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work

How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders

Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college

What keeps children in foster care from succeeding in school? Views of early adolescents and the adults in their lives

College learning for the new global century

Just for the kids

Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities

Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

Making good on a promise: What policymakers can do to support the educational persistence of dropouts

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach

Finance and resource issues in high school reform

FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions

Pathways to College Network

Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools

Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states

Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers

Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

Education & the military spouse: The long road to success

The state of learning disabilities 2009

The President's Forum

From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs

Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do

BC AVID: Early implementation report

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

All Kinds of Minds

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy

Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students

I-STEM Resource Network

For every 100 girls...

College access and success state data

Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy

Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system

Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice

Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric

Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college

Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes

A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree

Tackling tough topics: An educator's guide to working with military kids

Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education

The high cost of low graduation rates: Taxpayers lose millions

Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education

National Office for School Counselor Advocacy: Transition from high school graduation to college enrollment

P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills

High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges

When school stability requires transportation: State considerations

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability

STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)

What four states are doing to support data-driven decision-making: Policies, practices, and programs

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour

Hidalgo early college district toolkit

Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students

Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)

Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states

The progress of education reform: Pre-K-12 literacy: State of the nation

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success

Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed

What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education

State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement

From birth to college: Findings from Year 1 of a process evaluation of the University of chicago charter school model

Transforming education in America

Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes

Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort

The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion

It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years

Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative

Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates

Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states

Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent

Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model

Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series

The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents

Student success in higher education

Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring

What do you want in an afterschool program?

Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators

Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships

Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)

Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states

Improving community college success

Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis

Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma

Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion

Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training

How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture

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

Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

Scaling community college interventions

Boosting college completion for a new economy

Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers

A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions

Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education

Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success

The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance

Recognition and response: An early intervening system for young children at-risk for learning disabilities: Research synthesis and recommendations

Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future

School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth

The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students

Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges

On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006

Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned

The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses

How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges

Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time

Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

IDEA Partnership: Collaborative work on Response to Intervention

The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement

Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing

Cracking the credit hour

Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation

The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer

Increasing return on investment from federal student aid

Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative

A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth

Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years

Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens

The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools

Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook

Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook

Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education

Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns

College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity

Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well

The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts

Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success

The Condition of Education 2010

Parent engagement toolkit

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

SREB/Go Alliance

Response to Intervention (RTI): A primer for parents

RTI classification tool and resource locator

Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

Turning it around: A collective effort to understand and resolve Philadelphia's dropout crisis

Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools

Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005

Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges

The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma

Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials

No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion

National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students

Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students

National Center for Academic Transformation

Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn

Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout

The undereducated American

The educational experience of young men of color (website)

Gender inequalities in education

Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam

A comparison study of 12th grade students' college anticipations, aspirations, and college preparatory measures

America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits

Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

GEAR UP: Current project overviews 2002

Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels

Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards

Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains

National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources

Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education

The condition of education 2011

Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign

Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Research support for school counseling

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

Minority male student success programs at community colleges

A detection model of college withdrawal

Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching

Adult College Completion Network

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future

Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule

College completion toolkit

Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Effective Schoolwide Interventions

Breaking barriers: Plotting the path to academic success for school-age african-american males

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century

Grading higher education: Giving consumers the information they need

What does it cost to operate a high school organized into small learning communities? When are additional resources needed? How can efficiencies be achieved?

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

Developmental education in community colleges

Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges

Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Boosting postsecondary education performance

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)

Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy

2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Why access matters: The community college student body

Information constraints and financial aid policy

Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice

On the road to success

Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence

Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?

Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions

Early warning system middle grades tool

Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness

Western Policy Exchanges

Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly

The 8th annual AP report to the nation

Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future

The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda

A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)

Ramp-up to Readiness

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals

Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures

Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications

Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06

New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states

A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world

Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students

Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment

Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline

Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning

Suggested practices to improve educational outcomes of children living in foster care: Recommendations for school districts

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

Student voices: What makes a great teacher?

Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation

Successful school-community partnerships: Using lessons learned from practice and research to expand learning

Latino college completion: California

Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students

The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy

Project WIn-Win

Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Indiana by the numbers

Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid

The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English

Good Shepherd Services

Opportunity.gov

Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education

Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment

Dropout prevention practice guide

Ensuring college success: Scaffolding experiences for students and faculty in an early college high school

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design

The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Diverse issues in higher education

Project Complete

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update

IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

The value of value-added data

Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states

Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century

How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)

Enhancing college student success through developmental education

The productivity argument for investing in young children

A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment

Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit

National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success

With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college

It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs

Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed

Successful school turnarounds: Seven steps for school leaders

Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis

The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography

Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different

Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission

Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS

Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention

Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers

How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools

High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later

Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement

CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success

A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

Does public funding for higher education matter?

What works clearinghouse

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics

Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency

Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study

Promoting educational success for young people in foster care

New Technology High School postsecondary student success study

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

Data sources for improving college access and success

Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges

An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace

Higher education reform: Incorporating the needs of foster youth

The first year experience: Are we making it any better

From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth

What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program

Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement

Pathways to college access and success

Indiana higher education opportunity data book

Accelerated developmental education project

Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state

Dead ends: The need for more pathways to graduation for overage, under-credited students in New York City

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand

Who graduates in California?

An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement

Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature

Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007

Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice

The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities

Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges

Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

What works for Latino students

Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students

Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Addressing the needs of adult learners

College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college

The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education

Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey

NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide

Dropping out of high school: Prevalence, risk factors, and remediation strategies

Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond

Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce

The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

Adult college completion toolkit

Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education

The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners

A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy

Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors

Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

Indiana college completion rates 2007

The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention

Students with disabilities and access to community college: Continuing issues and new directions

A postsecondary resource guide for students with psychiatric disabilities

Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Adult learners and new traditions in higher education

Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college

A voice from the middle

Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report

Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

High school dropouts in America

Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities

Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform

The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states

The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

Retooling career and technical education

Student loans and public accountability

National Council of La Raza

What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice

Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults

The Kalamazoo Promise

Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders

Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success

Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?

The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth

The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys

Projections of education statistics to 2014

National Dropout Prevention Centers

A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars

One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach

A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)

It's my life: Postsecondary education and training

Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured

Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states

Measuring up 2004

Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000

On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college

How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success

Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds

Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion

Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college

Student athletes with learning disabilities: A model for effective supports

Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South

America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future

ThinkCollege.net

From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates

Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid

Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth

Endless dreams: A video and curriculum to educate teachers about foster care

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools

Education and incarceration

Correctional education facts

Homeschooled adults: Are they ready for college

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

P-16 Data systems: An alignment status report

Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students

Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership

Miles to go: Louisiana

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

Special populations: Tips for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males

College InSight

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

Complete College America

Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion

Time to Completion Web Site

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools

College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates

Coalition for Evidence-based Policy

Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions

Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners

Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done

Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades

Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation

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)

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement

Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Youth with disabilities in the foster care system: Barriers to success and proposed policy solutions

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

On ramp to college: A state policymaker's guide to dual enrollment

Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention

New England Journal of Higher Education

Anderson University: ADVANCE

Indiana University: Adult Student Resources

Huntington College: EXCEL Adult Degree Programs

I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training

A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents

Condition of education 2008

Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems

Background on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

New measures of student success in public higher education

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals

A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 - Education provisions

Mythbusting: Breaking down confidentiality and decision-making barriers to meet the education needs of children in foster care

Solving the data puzzle: A "how-to" guide on collecting and sharing information to improve educational outcomes for children in out-of-home care

Connext Postsecondary Assessment System

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory

Commonwealth Corporation

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals

College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students

Think again: The connection between education and true independence

Roadmap to RTI: Applying response to intervention in preschool settings

Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America

Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment

CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

RTI Action Network

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system

Breaking schools' rules: A statewide study of how school discipline relates to students' success and juvenile justice involvement

We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens

10 Pieces of advice from students for teachers

Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs

Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools

Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs

Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes

Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education

Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

The truth behind higher education disclosure laws

A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research

Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0

Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders

Bullying and open enrollment

Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education

State policy profiles for completion by design

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?

Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion

Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs

The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs

The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies

The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce

The CollegeKeys Compact 2012 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds

States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications

Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges

AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

What we know about dual enrollment

The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class

Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda

Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance

Statewide aid policies to improve college access and success

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

Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions

Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education

Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?

Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos

Top ten ways college counselors can help undocumented students

Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)

Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits

Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates

Transfer and articulation policies

Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement

Filling in the blanks: How information can affect choice in higher education

National High School Center early warning system tool 2.0

Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery

Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education

Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)

State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities

Projections of education statistics to 2019

Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions

What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability

Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

False impression: How a widely stated study vastly overstates the benefits of charter schools

Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice

The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions

Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)

Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons

Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010

Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants

Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys

Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture

Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers

Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Latino college completion: Florida

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)

En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families

New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED

Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

The false promise of class-size reduction

Grantmakers for Education

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals

Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles

An employment training and job placement program for foster youth making the transition to adulthood in Cook County, Illinois

Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students

Recognition and response: Pathways to school success for young children

On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards

The Network on Transitions to Adulthood

The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion

Education pays 2010

Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments

Youth in foster care: Easing the transition to adulthood

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma

Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic

SparkAction.org

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools

What educators should learn from ER

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college

Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress

The nature of innovation in the community college

The connection between health and high school dropout

Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies

Challenges, assets, and innovations: Considerations for secondary education in rural communities

Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community

The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States

Afterschool: A high school dropout prevention tool

Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools

Keeping the promise of change in California's lowest performing schools

Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report

The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

The impact of time between cognitive tests on performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement exams

"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student

State high school exit exams: A policy in transition

From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V

The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training

2012 National survey of school counselors

Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences

Using incentives to change how teenagers spend their time: The effects of New York City's conditional cash transfer program

The student debt crisis

Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis

Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

What are the implications of possible selves research for school counseling practice?

What is "career ready"?

The economic case for higher education

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members

Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006

Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school

What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"

The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education

High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks

High standards help struggling students: New evidence

College for all?

What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources

RTI Progress monitoring tools chart

Schools, families, and Response to Intervention:

Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports

Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt

Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants

Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems

Putting data into practice: Lessons from New York City

Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education

Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs

Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities

CollegeMeasures.org

California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference

Unexpected pathways: Transfer patterns of California community college students

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion

Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers

Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)

A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

The College Completion Agenda

One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success

Pell Institute: TRIO clearinghouse

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates

Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region

Using linked data to drive education and training improvement

State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals

Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards

Latino college completion: Texas

Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

A portrait of school improvement grantees

Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA

Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages

Planning a school-based mentoring program

ESEA Briefing Book

A measured approach to improving teacher preparation

PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science

Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges

Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project

Ready by 21 case study: Georgetown Divide

Don't stop collaborating - Just stop creating new collaboratives

Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges

Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know

Buying college: What consumers need to know

Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools

A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee

Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project

What works in student retention 2010

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

Promoting quality: State strategies for overseeing dual enrollment programs

Community college and high school partnerships

Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness

Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas

Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates

College completion: Who graduates from college, who doesn't and why it matters

Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges

Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds

A strong start: Positioning young black boys for educational success: A statistical profile

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma

Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college

Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College

Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce

Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge

Summertime program tune-up: Taking advantage of "down" time for needed program enhancements

Why policymakers should care about children's savings

The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals

No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries

Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?

The American freshman: National norms fall 2011

Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships

Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option

Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series

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

Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up standards

Pat Tillman Foundation

Three policies to reduce time to degree

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads

NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide

Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education

Leveraging data for college completion

College application week: A toolkit for increasing access to higher education

Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08

Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline

Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality

Using data to drive change: A guide for college access and success stakeholders

Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

Operation Military Kids

Dual enrollment for high school students

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents

Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda

A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness

USA Funds Unlock the Future

Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step

The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students

Indiana Graduation Plan Statute

State future workforce gap summaries

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Financial aid in theory and practice

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education Publications: Special education decisionmaking

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions

Council of the Great City Schools

Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students

Campaign for High School Equity

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Gallup student poll national report

Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed

It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success

Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

The Fortune Society: Prisoner Re-entry

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)

Goshen College: Degree-completion programs

University of Indianapolis: School for Adult Learning

Oakland City University: School of Adult and Extended Learning

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation

The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings

Windows on achievement and inequality

The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance

Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition

Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study

Research on retention and attrition

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

The savvy teacher's guide: Reading interventions that work

The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making

Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

SREB Factbook on higher education

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief

Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans

More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges

Student Success Skills

Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials

Projections of education statistics to 2018

How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states

Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers

Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)

Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers

Rising by Degrees

The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Insuring college failure risk

A shared agenda: Action alert for school superintendents & middle & high school principals

2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions

American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems

The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms

The effects of public support on college attainment

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations

Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal

Council for Exceptional Children

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges

A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices

The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path

How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students

Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school

Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment

Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education

The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states

The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention

Annotated bibliography: Perspectives in postsecondary education programs and student support interventions

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems

Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers

Forum guide to education indicators

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment

Implementing graduation counts: State progress to date

Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice

Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings

Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners

Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners

Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Adult education participation in 2004-05

Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future

Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy

Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework

Learning to earn

The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education

Foster youth educational attainment: An annotated bibliography of online resources

Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success

Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources

The education liason model

Leave no youth behind: The higher education act and disconnected youth

One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity

Educational attainment of the population 25 years and over, by state

A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities

Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

Effective college transition planning for students with learning disabilities: What does the research tell us?

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2006 status report

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Institutional graduation rate for 1985 entering cohorts

Education success program: A collaborative approach to an old challenge

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Indiana project on academic success

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

National inventory of academic pathways

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

When it comes to school, girls rule

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

College admission for homeschoolers

Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio

From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Projections of education statistics to 2016

The real technology challenge

Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future

Breaking through: Factsheet

Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes

Enrollment status and outcomes

Framing new terrain: Older adults & higher education

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions

Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world

State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices

Learning in a new key

Postsecondary Access and Success

Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG.org)

Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students

Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

Nontraditional undergraduates

College guide for students with disabilities

Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements

Expanding learning time in high schools

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations

Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans

Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

Collegiate learning assessement project

Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college

Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

How to Choose a College: A Guide for the Student with a Disability

No county left behind: The persistence of educational deprivation in Indiana

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

Indiana youth group

A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect

State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school

Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP

Action plan: Educators/Policymakers

Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students

Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree

Educational Attainment in the United States 2006

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

College of Adult and Professional Studies

Tour of the male student mind in American higher education

Beyond the numbers: Data use for continuous improvement of programs serving disconnected youth

The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications

Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis

New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility

5 Education factors in focus

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education

Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling

Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers

Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

Are the sleeping giants awake? Non-profit universities enter online education at scale

Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?

Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation

Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions

Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core

Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education

Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators

Learning what it takes: An initial look at how schools are using early warning data and collaborative response teams to keep all students on track to success

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

Dropping out of high school and the place of career and technical education: A survival analysis of surviving high school

Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?

Setting the stage: Adults in Higher Education

Digest of Education Statistics

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Choosing smart electives: Cultivating interests, strengths, and special talents

Relationships between EPAS scores and college preparatory course work in high school

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

EPAS®: A system that works

Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

Cómo obtener su GED (How to obtain your GED)

Student African American Brotherhood

Washington Data and Reports

Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program

Postsecondary education options for students with intellectual disabilities

Career planning and employment strategies for postsecondary students with disabilities

Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

Connected by 25: Information resource center for youth transitions initiatives

Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy

Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

Closing the achievement gap: An overview

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools

The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)

States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni

Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments

Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge

Knocking at the college door: California state report

What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas

A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills

Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges

Fighting poverty through incentives and work mandates for young men

New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)

First ask, then listen: How to get your students to help you teach them better

The Breakthrough High School project

Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Reforming American high schools: Case studies and resources on best practices

Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools

Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth

Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability

Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

The Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color

Encouraging girls in math and science

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement

Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)

Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction

Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges

Quality counts 2008

Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students

Graduate enrollment and degrees: 1996-2006

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools

Educating English language learners: Implementing instructional practices

The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success

It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools

Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education

Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males

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

Early college high school initiative

Postsecondary education opportunity

College Mentors for Kids

Mentoring at-risk high school students: Evaluation of a school-based program

Vocational mentoring: An experience-based career mentoring program for high school juniors and seniors at risk of not graduating

Foster youth: Tips for completing the FAFSA (2008-09)

Students with disabilities: Preparing for postsecondary education: Know your rights and responsibilities

Access to the future: Preparing college students with disabilities for careers

The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Independent undergraduates: 1999-2000

National High School Center

The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad

Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males

Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges

Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates

What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative

What effect does a career intervention have on at-risk middle school students' career maturity levels, self-esteem, and academic achievement

Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation

Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Just and efficient college finance

Where have all the students gone

Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity

The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model

The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements

The American diploma project: Overview of research

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

Fast track to college: Increasing postsecondary success for all students

Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education

Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students

The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act

Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools

College completion: Additional efforts could help education with its completion goals

School relationships foster success for African American students

Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success

Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

Preparing students for success in college

The adult learning gap: Why states need to change their policies toward adult learners

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Adult persistence and success in higher education: A brief annotated bibliography of online resources

Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms

The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us

Rethinking high school: Inaugural graduations at New York City's new high schools

A road map for learning: Improving educational outcomes in foster care: A strategic guide for success in school

National forum to accelerate middle grades reform

Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Career academies: Impacts on students' engagement and performance in high school

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card

The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college

Recent STEM initiatives

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school

Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates

Indiana's 2006 graduation rate

En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity

Measuring up 2006

Projections of education statistics to 2015

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

DO-IT college planning resources

The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the Common Core of Data: School years 2002-03 and 2003-04

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

Bridge Partnership

Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice

NDSFA: State financial aid and college access

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

Peak experiences

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature

Dropout rates in the United States: 2004

Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going

Center for Student Opportunity

Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities

State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians

Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities

Indiana's dropout prevention tool-kit: A legislative primer

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide

Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

Early warning systems that support students at risk of dropping out of high school

Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts

Effective instructional strategies

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

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.

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams

Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams

A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization

Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth

The Springboard Project: Getting ahead - staying ahead: Helping America's workforce succeed in the 21st century

Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better

Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation

Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement

The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business

Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success

A shared agenda: Action alert for higher education leaders

The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Help wanted: Postsecondary education and training required

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention

Connected by 25: Financing housing supports for youth transitioning out of high school

Finishing high school: Alternative pathways and dropout recovery

College-going cultures in urban high schools

Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

Interventions for struggling readers

The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference

Healthy Teen Network

Access to Learning

The work-based learning self assessment tool

Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture

An examination of barriers to pursuing PSE and potential solutions

And after high school? A pan-Canadian study of grade 12 students in French-language schools in minority settings: Educational aspirations and plans to pursue a career in their home regions -- Executive Summary

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation

The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges

Educational Policy Improvement Center

Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education

Why stop after high school?: A descriptive analysis of the most important reasons that high school graduates do not continue to PSE

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned

Transitions -- First-generation students: A promising concept?

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery

Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College

ACE Online Information Center

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices

Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022

Discovery Education Homework Help

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials: Understanding the new students

Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers

The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report

Strategic directions in Indiana education

Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Scholarship Program

Learn and Serve America

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

Calumet College of St. Joseph: Adult Undergraduate Accelerated Programs

Indiana University Kokomo: Project Complete

Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule

ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely

The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners

National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8

Congressional foster youth internship program

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

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education

Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

Economic state of young America

Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information

What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance

10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress

Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)

IU School of Continuing Studies partners with Adaptive Technology Center to offer educational accessibility for students learning at a distance

The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment

Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools

National Center for Summer Learning

Developmental Education Toolkit

Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009

The future workforce of Indiana

Student success courses in the community college: An exploratory study of student perspectives

Community colleges under stress

Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States

See Forever Foundation

Communities in Schools

Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support

Intervention Central

Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study

Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates

Youth transitioning from foster care: Background, federal programs and issues for Congress

Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

Indiana's Response to Intervention (RTI)

Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Students earning zero credits

Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)

Measuring up 2008

National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report

Five ways education pays initiative

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy

Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels

Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018

Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report

Strong support, low awareness: Public perception of the common core state standards

Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers

Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34

Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009

SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report

Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning

Improving the odds for failing schools

US Students in overseas degree programs: Key destinations and fields of study

Toolfind: Youth outcomes measurement tools directory

Evaluate mentoring programs

Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM

Redefining your success: The role of adolescent connectedness in demonstrating mentoring impact

Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill

2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions

A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area

Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts

Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years

Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics

National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)

Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later

From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs

P-20 governance

The effects of grade retention on high school completion

Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes

Return on educational investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity

Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams

Steps taken on the path forward

A sound investment: The community college dividend

National Youth Employment Coalition

Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?

7th Annual AP report to the nation

Talking it through: Communication skills for mentors: Real-life examples to guide you through your mentoring relationship

The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings

Presidential leadership for public policy: A special report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report

Latino college completion: State series

Accelerating the academic achievement of students referred to developmental education

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform

If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement

2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)

Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data

State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region

IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works

The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings

Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing

Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

Building an early childhood professional development system

Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference

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 (aggregate analysis)

The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else

The condition of college and career readiness 2010

Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda

Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020

College admissions tests as measures of accountability

INSPIRED 2 IMPACT!

A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education

America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents

Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap

Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap

Academic preparation for college in the high school senior class of 2003-04

Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08

Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners

Building a higher skilled workforce: Results and implications from the Bridgeconnect national survey

Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success

Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010

Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students

The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities

What are examples of state legislation focused on high school dropout prevention?

Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison

Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling

How youth plan to fund college

Sample state legislation to extend foster care, adoption, and guardianship protections, services, and payments to young adults age 18 and over

Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching

Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete

Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States

FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success

A paradox of education progress

RTI Wire: Your site for RTI resources

Tiered intervention on the high school level

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue

Supporting first-generation college students through classroom-based practices

Preparing students to transition from high school to college: A review of the perceptions surrounding college and the challenges students face as they prepare for their collegiate experience

An examination of the information technology job market

The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending

How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession

Regardless of the cost, college still matters

2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers

Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century

The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt

Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda

Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers

Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom

From soft skills to hard data: Measuring youth program outcomes

Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals

The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm

A systemic approach to implementing response to intervention in three Colorado high schools

Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency