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Author(s):Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Title:Fewer, clearer, higher: Moving forward with consistent, rigorous standards for all students
Source:http://www.gatesfoundation.org/highschools/Docu...
Date:2010
Organization:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Short Description:The new Common Core State Standards establish what students at every grade level need to know on their way to graduating high school prepared for college or the workplace.
Annotation:The new Common Core State Standards establish what students at every grade level need to know on their way to graduating high school prepared for college or the workplace. This paper describes why these standards are necessary for ensuring that students graduate from high school ready to succeed in college or career, and provides context for state leaders wrestling with decisions as they implement new standards, assessments, and teaching tools.
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Accountability and Productivity (K-12)
Curriculum/Course-taking/Rigor
Elementary School
High School
High School Graduation/Dropout Prevention
Middle School
P-16 (Pre K - Grade 16) Alignment and Initiatives
Preparation/College Readiness
School Reform
Standards

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The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study
Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
Why Algebra II?
New America Foundation Early Education Initiative
Teacher evaluation: New approaches for a new decade
Parent engagement toolkit
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
College- and career-ready (video presentation): Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses.
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
Stuck schools: A framework for identifying schools where students need change--now!
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Changes in Graduation Rates by State (Progress and Challenge Indexes)
Background on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Indiana Academic Honors Diploma
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
YouthBuild USA
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
IPEDS Data Center
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Meeting the invention challenge
The next generation of school accountability: A blueprint for raising high school achievement and graduation rates in SREB states
The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009
Educational equity profiles: Practical leadership tools for equitable and excellent schools
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
Differential grading standards among high schools
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
The first year of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
NCLB and high schools
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
QualityCore™: Every student deserves to be ready for college
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Postsecondary Access and Success
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Indiana's P-16 initiative
Detail to the key components of Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student preparation for college success
School and college partnerships: The missing link
Encouraging news for college bound foster youth
Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
Where have all the students gone
National inventory of academic pathways
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Early college high school initiative
Model college-preparatory curriculum
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
P-16: Building a cohesive education system from preschool through postsecondary
Closing the expectations gap: 2006
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts
Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
High Tech High Foundation
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study
Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future
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
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Charting a new course for career and technical education
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
P-16 Data systems: An alignment status report
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
What savings are produced by moving to a four-day school week?
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
Caught in the crisis: Students with disabilities in U.S. high schools
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
On her majesty's school inspection service
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Bullying and open enrollment
Improving the odds for failing schools
It can be done, it's being done, and here's how
State policy profiles for completion by design
Standing on the shoulders of giants: An American agenda for education reform
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Stuck schools revisited: Beneath the averages
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
Incentivizing school turnaround: A proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
Closing the gap between high school and college
Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Charter schools that work: Economically integrated schools with teacher voice
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Young Hispanic children: Boosting opportunities for learning
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
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
The College Board 2012 national survey of school counselors and administrators: Report on survey findings: Barriers and supports to school counselor success
2012 National survey of school counselors
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
The reality of college readiness 2012: National report
Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession
The first year of high school
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
The condition of education 2012 (Website)
Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
The nation's report card: Science 2011
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
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
21st Century skills map
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
ERIN Project: Education Resource Information Navigator
Getting ready for success: Bridging the gap between high school and college in Tacoma, Washington
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color
Transforming the educational experience of young men of color: Companion workbook
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
What is "career ready"?
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
State high school exit exams: A policy in transition
Student mobility in rural and nonrural districts in five Central region states
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
Digital learning now! Ten elements of high quality digital learning
A call to action to raise achievement for African American students
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
STEM coursetaking among high school graduates, 1990-2005
Is school funding fair? A national report card
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
Time to act: Closing the racial achievement gap
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
Financing community schools: Leveraging resources to support student success
Experiencing integration in Louisville: How parents and students see the gains and challenges
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Funding education equitably: The "comparability provision" the move to fair and transparent school budgeting systems
Improving achievement for the growing Latino population is critical to the nation's future
Policy implications of trends for Asian American students
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
Focus on the alternative school calendar: Year-round school programs and update on the four-day school week
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
Gender inequalities in education
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Shifting trends in special education
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Power play: Teacher characteristics and class assignments
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
AYP results for 2010-11
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
College completion: Who graduates from college, who doesn't and why it matters
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Chartering equity: Using charter school legislation and policy to advance equal educational opportunity
Year two of implementing the common core state standards: States' progress and challenges
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
Off the clock: What more time can (and can't) do for school turnarounds
End-of-course exams
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
California District Report Cards
The cruel divide: How California's education finance system shortchanges its poorest school districts
The nation's report card: Findings in brief: Reading and mathematics 2011: National assessment of educational progress at grades 4 and 8
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Congressional budget action for fiscal year 2012 and its impact on education funding
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
The Future Ready Project
Reaching the goal: The applicability and importance of the Common Core State Standards to college and career readiness
The high school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at Fall 2009 ninth graders
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Early college high school initiative: Core principles
Indiana's high school diploma requirements
Frequently asked questions regarding Indiana's new high school course and credit requirements
Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates
Learning by degree: Real-life stories from three early collge high schools
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
Reclaiming the American dream
Strategic instruction model
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Results that matter: New technology high school at a glance
Indian students and college preparation
Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
Building the foundation for bright futures: Final report of the NGA task force on school readiness
Small schools project
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Making middle grades work
Middle Start
Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student achievement (Powerpoint)
Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Foundation for excellent schools
Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform
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
Primary progress, secondary challenge
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States
Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college
Getting it done: Ten steps to a state action agenda
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Do graduation tests measure up: A closer look at state high school exit exams
Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools
The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns
The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum
The Kalamazoo Promise
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
What every college access practitioner should know about: The early college high school initiative – Indiana plans for the early college high school for science and technologies
IU School of Education Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration: Presentation
Early intervention program and college partnerships
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Investing in children: An early learning strategy for Washington state
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Early college high school initiative: Brochure (2007)
ACT high school profile report: The graduation class of 2007 (Indiana)
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
A resource guide for adolescent literacy
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace
College-bound or headed for workforce training: High school graduates need similar math, reading skills
Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness
Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Accelerated learning for all
Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum
Expanding learning time in high schools
Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children
Aligning secondary and postsecondary education: Lessons from the past
Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready information
NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports
The challenge of college readiness
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
The Everyone Graduates Center
Campaign for High School Equity
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
Condition of education 2008
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
No Child Left Behind - standards, assessment, and accountability
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance
Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Gateway to College
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools
Schools, skills, and synapses
Smaller Learning Communities Annotated Bibliography
Indianapolis Star Data Central: School profile reports
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Education watch 2009
Lessons from the Lone Star state: Designing a sustainable model to expand early college high school in Texas
Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009
How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools
Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Council for Exceptional Children
Retaining teacher talent: The view from Generation Y
How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?
New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
High school remediation
Empowering effective teachers: Strategies for implementing reforms
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
A framework for a multi-state human capital development data system
Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Early college placement testing opportunities in Maine
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
Response to Instruction (RtI) guidance document
Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)
Afterschool Alliance
Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
2009 Report on Indiana's dropout student population
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
Center on Innovation and Improvement
Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students
Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools
Alternative pathways to high school graduation: An international comparison
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Impact of homework on student achievement
Education Bill Tracking Database
Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

 

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