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12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Education Commission of the States
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12 for 2012 is an ECS "read of the field," built on scrutiny of new reports and research, and analysis of emerging drivers of change
12 for 2012 is an ECS "read of the field," built on scrutiny of new reports and research, and analysis of emerging drivers of change. The 12 policy areas do not represent an exhaustive list of the critical issues for the coming year, nor is this report intended to dictate your education policy priorities for 2012. Rather, 12 for 2012 is intended to stimulate thinking around how best to craft the "2.0" of powerful policy across the states.
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Accountability and Productivity (K-12)
Achievement Gap
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First Generation College Students
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P-16 (Pre K - Grade 16) Alignment and Initiatives
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An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
How many schools and districts have not made adequate yearly progress? Four-year trends
Everybody ready for college
High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
ESEA Briefing Book
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Bullying and open enrollment
Linking data across state agencies: States that are making it work
Expanded learning opportunities: A more comprehensive approach to preparing high school students for college and a career
Investing in education powers US competitiveness: Education funding must be preserved
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
A portrait of school improvement grantees
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
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)
Overlooked and underpaid: How Title 1 shortchanges high schools, and what ESEA can do about it
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress lags in high school, especially for advanced achievers
Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
The road to high-quality early education
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Achieving results through community school partnerships: How districts and community leaders are building effective, sustainable relationships
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
The economic value of opportunity youth
How bold is "bold?" Responding to Race to the Top with a bold, actionable plan on teacher effectiveness
NAEP Mathematics 2009 state snapshot reports
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Achievement gaps: How black and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels
Evolving No Child Left Behind
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Black Alliance for Educational Options
Why high stakes accountability sounds good but doesn't work - And why we keep on doing it anyway
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Deciding on postsecondary education
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
Opportunity in America: The role of education
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states
The national articulation and transfer network
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Aligning early learning, K-12, and postsecondary systems
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
Latino students and disproportionality in special education
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
Closing the gap in science achievement: Using NAEP science assessment scores to analyze state trends
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library
Vital voices: Building constituencies for public school reform
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school
The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
Office of Indian education programs
Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students
Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color
Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Mentoring programs: An annotated bibliography of online resources
Education Trust, Inc
Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth
It's kind of different: Student experiences in two early college high schools
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
Aligned expectations: A closer look at college admissions and placement tests
Developing the STEM education pipeline
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Colorado Reports
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
The common core state standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education
The college completion agenda may sacrifice college access for low-income, minority and other at-risk students
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Third grade reading policies
Not the ceiling, but the floor: Innovative Harlem early childhood education effort complicated by varying government regulations
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Instructional supports: The missing piece in state educational standards
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
Reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act offers a new chance to improve education
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
State implementation and perceptions of Title 1 school improvement grants under the Recovery Act: One year later
Equality and education, A Century Foundation project
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Voices in urban education
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Ensuring academic success for English learners
Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching
A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-Kindergarten efforts
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Funding Gaps 2006
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options
What works for Latino students
Our impoverished view of education reform
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students
Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys
Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school
Network news: Focus on P-16 partnerships
African American achievement in America
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth's eyes
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
American Indian student achievement in Montana public schools: Features of the achievement gap and policy prescriptions
Education watch 2006 state summary reports
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
Tennessee higher education commission: The case for P-16 education in Tennessee
Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform
Success for All Foundation
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
Educational needs index state report: Indiana
National inventory of academic pathways
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state pre-kindergarten systems
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
Windows on achievement and inequality
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
College For Every Student
Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
Indiana's K-12 STEM Ed Report Card
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies
Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
State-level high school improvement systems checklist
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Minority youth: Overrepresented & underserved in Indiana's systems
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Ensuring equal opportunity in public education: How local school district funding policies hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
A synthesis of grade retention research: Looking backward and moving forward
The accountability illusion
Indianapolis Star Data Central: School profile reports
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Schools, skills, and synapses
Facts for education advocates
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Reviving the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)
Common Core State Standards Initiative
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009
The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood
From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs
Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Aligning secondary and postsecondary education: Lessons from the past
No Excuses University Network
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
2009 What works for Latinos in higher education
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Western Policy Exchanges
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment reading 2011
Advocacy in action toolkit
Transforming education in America
Making the move: Transition strategies at California schools with high graduation rates
AYP results for 2010-11
Parents want to know
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
Making the case: Engaging education partners in addressing the education needs of children in foster care
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Shifting trends in special education
Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2008-09
The federal comprehensive school reform program and school turnaround: Key evaluation findings
Don't count us out: How an overreliance on accountability could undermine the public's confidence in schools, business, government and more
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
Latino college completion: California
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promsie of for-profit colleges and universities
Research support for school counseling
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Race to the top and teacher preparation: Analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
Monitoring progress: Response to intervention (RTI)'s promise and pitfalls
The impact of teacher experience
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Not prepared for class: High poverty schools continue to have fewer in-field teachers
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Turning around the nation's lowest performing schools: Five steps districts can take to improve their chances of success
The nation's report card: Science 2009
Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community
The 2010 Brown Center report on American education
Postsecondary success
Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals
Summer reading, summer not: How project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer) can advance equity
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Southern Regional Education Board annual report: The essentials: What really counts in improving education
6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities
America's best (and worst) cities for school reform: Attracting entrepreneurs and change agents
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Gold Star School Counseling
Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
A framework for a multi-state human capital development data system
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?
State test score trends through 2007-08: Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (National Report)
Indiana's Growth Model (for measuring student achievement)
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories
What role do school leaders play in turning around low-performing schools?
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Minority student success: The role of teachers in Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
California Dropout Research Project (CDRP)
The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study
Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?
Who borrows most? Bachelor's degree recipients with high levels of student debt
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
On her majesty's school inspection service
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
Do race/ethnicity-based student achievement gaps grow over time?
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
End-of-course exams
Smart class-size policies for lean times
Increasing online learning options for K-12 students: The role of school districts
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Teacher voices: Teachers talk about some of the big problems they face in the classroom and how these impede student learning
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
From capacity to success: HSIs and Latino student success through Title V
Highlights from PIRLS 2011: Reading achievement of U.S. fourth grade students in an international context
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Education Bill Tracking Database
Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint
How do middle-school grade configurations impact student achievement and behavior?
Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?
State test score trends through 2007-08, Part 5: Are there differences in achievement between boys and girls?
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Center on Innovation and Improvement
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: A Primer on Reauthorization in 2010
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
RTI classification tool and resource locator
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Turning community college drop-outs into graduates
Culturally responsive Response to Intervention
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
Complete College America
State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates
Maximum P-12 class size policies
The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
A social capital framework for the study of institutional agents & their role in the empowerment of low-status students & youth
Retaining Teacher Talent Study
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Pathways to College Network
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Equitable resources in low income schools: Teacher equity and the Federal Title 1 comparability requirement
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
The Center for Public Education
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Underperforming schools and the education of vulnerable children
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
ACT college readiness case study: "You can go to college": Foster High School
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 1: Rising scores on state tests and NAEP
School connectedness: Strategies for increasing proactive factors among youth
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
Measuring adequate yearly progress: What "other" factors besides reading and math
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for mathematics (2004)
A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for English (2004)
ED Data Express
Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
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
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate program
Maximizing the promise of community schools: Streamlining wraparound services for ESEA
Teacher and leader effectiveness in high-performing education systems
Transitioning to the new high school graduation rate
Expanded measures of school performance
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Measuring inequity in school funding
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Parent involvement and extended learning activities in school improvement plans in the Midwest region
State policies and procedures on Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Midwest region
Why we're behind: What top nations teach their children but we don't
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Mapping state proficiency standards onto the NAEP scales: Variation and change in state standards for reading and mathematics, 2005-09
Improving community college success
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
The condition of education 2011
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
Latino college completion: Texas
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Healthy steps toward student achievement: Research based recommendations for policy and practice
The undereducated American
A parent's guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
The nation's report card: Findings in brief: Reading and mathematics 2011: National assessment of educational progress at grades 4 and 8
The hidden costs of community colleges
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Promoting prevention and positive interventions in school settings
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
State policy profiles for completion by design
Preparing for college: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Movin' it and improvin' it! Using both education strategies to increase teaching effectiveness
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
Perspectives on the key K-12 legislation of 2009
SREB Factbook on higher education
Can the American high school become an avenue of advancement for all?
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Measuring up 2008
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
College tools for schools
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Improving accountability in public education
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Parsing the achievement gap II
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?
From qualifications to results: Promoting teacher effectiveness through federal policy
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act
The nation's report card: Reading 2007
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools
Postsecondary Access and Success
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Center for native education
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
No Child Left Behind - standards, assessment, and accountability
Early intervention program and college partnerships
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Middle-class schools for all
Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority
Building community learning systems: The Columbus learning center
Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
I-STEM Resource Network
A mission of the heart: What does it take to transform a school?
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works
American student achievement institute
Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline
P-16 Data systems: An alignment status report
College knowledge: Addressing information barriers to college
Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report
Helping children move from bad schools to good ones
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
School-business partnerships: Seven strategies for success
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
National College Access Program Directory
College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity
Latino youth and the pathway to college
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
Latino achievement in America
Detail to the key components of Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student preparation for college success
Achievement in America
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students
Educational needs index
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key Characteristics
How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
African American students and U.S. high schools
Latino students and U.S. high schools
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
Change, and response to change, in Florida's public schools
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Improving math performance
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Learning in a new key
The Breakthrough High School project
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California
Opportunities for expanding college bridge programs for out of school youth
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006
What is P-16? A primer for legislators - a practical introduction to the concept, language and policy issues of an integrated system of public education
New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
Public education and Black male students: The 2006 state report card
Dispelling the myth - online
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
P-16 Collaboration in the States
Racial transformation and the changing nature of segregation
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Recent STEM initiatives
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
Moving Indiana forward: High standards and high graduation rates
Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Atlanta civic site: Climbing the ladder of civic proficiency
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
Autonomy and innovation: Systemic change in a decentralized state
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2012
College rewired: Innovative approaches help higher education connect to productivity
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
Pathways through graduate school and into careers
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
8th Annual AP report to the nation
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Opportunities and obstacles: Implementing stimulus-funded school improvement grants in Maryland, Michigan, and Idaho
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
A new way on school integration
The changing landscape of American public education: New students, new schools
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Schools to watch
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Alabama education quick facts 2007
Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama
Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future
Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies
Echoes of Bakke: A fractured Supreme Court invalidates two race-conscious K-12 student assignment plans but affirms the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?
Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college
Helping Teens Succeed
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Timing and duration of student participation in special education in the primary grades
Derechos Humanos: Los Derechos Humanos y Derechos Laborales de los Inmigrantes Latinos en los Estados Unidos (The human rights and labor rights of the Latin immigrants in the United States)
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Expanding learning time in high schools
Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform
2004 Public opinion survey on education in Indiana
The student debt dilemma: Debt aversion as a barrier to college access
Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
State higher education finance: FY 2004
Preparing students for success in college
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
First generation college students: A literature review
From risk to opportunity: Fulfilling the educational needs of Hispanic Americans in the twenty-first century
How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04
First in the family: Advice about college from first generation students
Lumina Foundation for Education
Access denied: Restoring the nation's commitment to equal educational opportunity
The challenge of access and persistence
The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns
Losing our future: How minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis
School and college partnerships: The missing link
Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors
State data systems and privacy concerns: Strategies for balancing public interests
Getting it done: Ten steps to a state action agenda
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
The lost opportunity of senior year: Finding a better way
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
How do educators' cultural belief systems affect underserved students' pursuit of postsecondary education
Education and the economy: An indicators report
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates
Bridging the gap between high school and college
The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance
College access: From the inside out
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
Peak experiences
Diversity, school, family, and community connections
Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities
Finance and resource issues in high school reform
The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare
All over the map: State policies to improve the high school
The impact of advice on price: Evidence from research
Involving families in high school and college expectations
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing
Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
Academic pathways to access and student success
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Education commission of the states: Online high school policy database
Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
McNair scholar handbook
Raising boys' achievement
A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards
Starfish Initiative
Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)
State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability under NCLB: Interim report
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation
Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy
Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007
Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities
The family: America's smallest school
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
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners
Changes in Graduation Rates by State (Progress and Challenge Indexes)
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Summer Search
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Gateway to College
Dual enrollment policies and practices: Earning college credit in California high schools
Indiana Graduation Plan Statute
National School Lunch Program: State-level data FFY1989 to FFY2008
Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics
U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Reinventing the federal role in education: Supporting the goal of college and career readiness for all students
College readiness and high school-to-college success
Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
Breakthrough Collaborative
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Leading in a changing America: Presidential perspectives from Hispanic-serving institutions
Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college
Using student achievement data to support instructional decision making
Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
State education agency funding and staffing in the education reform era
The digital learning imperative: How technology and teaching meet today's education challenges
State responses to the increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders
Five things education supporters should know about pension reform
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Hearing on non-traditional students
The CollegeKeys Compact: Getting into college: A cross-cohort examination of college preparations by lower-SES students
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Gateways to the principalship: State power to improve the quality of school leaders
Principal-counselor toolkit
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
Ramp-up to Readiness
Number of instructional days/hours in the school year
When school stability requires transportation: State considerations
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Opportunity-rich schools and sustainable communities: Seven steps to align high-quality education with innovations in city and metropolitan planning and development
Latino college completion: Pennsylvania
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
Congressional budget action for fiscal year 2012 and its impact on education funding
Test, punish, and push out: How zero tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline
Telling it like it is: Youth speak out on the school to prison pipeline
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
The College Match Program
National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Data-driven School Counseling Annotated Bibliography
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Americans want more coverage of teacher performance and student achievement
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
The Future of Children Journal: Immigrant children
Are bad schools immortal?
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Elementary/Secondary Information System (ESLi)
Digital learning now! Ten elements of high quality digital learning
Update on Indiana school referrenda
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower-poverty schools
Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males
Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college
Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county
Reality check: Hispanic-serving institutions on the Texas border strategzing financial aid
America's private public schools
"Ahead of the curve" charter school policies
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Working with teachers to develop fair and reliable measures of effective teaching
Recruiting and retaining older African American and Hispanic boys in after-school programs: What we know and what we still need to learn
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
Web tables - profiles of students in graduate and first-professional education: 2007-08
The condition of education in brief: 2005
Rewarding progress, reducing debt: Early results from Ohio's performance-based scholarship demonstration for low-income parents
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Ensuring America's future: Benchmarking Latino college completion to meet national goals: 2010 to 2020
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009
Supplemental educational services non-regulatory guidance
The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education
New data reveal percent of college credits taken by high school students
Retaining teacher talent: Convergence and contradictions in teachers' perceptions of policy reform ideas
Moving targets: What it now means to make adequate yearly progress under NCLB
Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field
State policies on homeschooling
Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
No time to delay: Delivering the statewide data systems California's students deserve
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
The Condition of Education 2010
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Indiana's Cash for College
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
Toward reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
Route 21: 21st century skills information, resources, and community tools
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
The state of preschool 2011: State preschool yearbook
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
State aid to nonpublic schools
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
Accountability issues to watch under NCLB waivers
A dozen facts about k-12 education
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Raising the bar: Aligning and elevating teacher preparation and the teaching profession
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
Children of Immigrants Data Tool
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
What does research say about 21st century skills?
Can middle school reform increase high school graduation rates?
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
Impact of homework on student achievement
Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
School turnaround teachers: Competencies for success
Response to Intervention: The future for secondary schools
Estimating the impact of the EduJobs proposal on states
Helping students get a "head start" on the real world: State strategies for early high school graduation
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
Children's Defense Fund State Factsheets
Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy
Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed
The effects of public support on college attainment
Ringing the bell for K-12 teacher tenure reform
Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses
Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College
Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs
A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005
Succeeding with English language learners: Lessons learned from the Great City Schools
Gauging the gaps: A deeper look at student achievement
Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success
School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of comprehensive school reform programs
Financial education in TRIO programs
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings
Creating jobs and supporting homeless students
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for data analysts
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Education pays 2010
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Cracks in the ivory tower? The views of education professors circa 2010
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
School connectedness and meaningful student participation
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's education at home and at school in 1999-2000
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Sample state legislation to extend foster care, adoption, and guardianship protections, services, and payments to young adults age 18 and over
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Primary sources: America's teachers on America's schools
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
Chidren's Budget 2010
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report
Retaining students in grade: A literature review of the effects of retention on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Teacher leaders: Boosting teacher effectiveness and student achievement
Kentucky school-based family support: Twenty years later
States' progress and challenges in implementing common core state standards
Fully online programs in K-12: A snapshot of effective practices at virtual high schools
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
Measuring success by degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
Factors contributing to the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges
Now what? Imperatives and options for common core implementation and governance
Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
A phenomenological study of high school counselor advocacy as it relates to the college access of underrepresented students
Funding education equitably: The "comparability provision" the move to fair and transparent school budgeting systems
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Innovations in developmental math: Community colleges enhance support for nontraditional students
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do parents need to know?
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Parents' guide to student success
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
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Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Incentives for early graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years
Clearing the path: Creating innovation space for serving over-age, under-credited students in competency-based pathways
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Racial gaps in early childhood: Socio-emotional health, development, and educational outcomes among African-American males
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Supporting data use while protecting the privacy, security and confidentiality of student information: A primer for state policymakers
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Teachers are the center of education: Mentoring, teaching and improving student learning
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
GEAR UP Data: An information center of data, research, and analysis on GEAR UP
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Data: The missing piece to improving student achievement
Different approaches to dual enrollment: Understanding program features and their implications
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030
Federal efforts to improve the lowest-performing schools: District views on school improvement grants
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Data for action 2011
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
Early warning system middle grades tool
Cohort default rates in context
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Kindergarten entrance ages: Highlights
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Year two of implementing the common core state standards: States' progress and challenges
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Standards in practice: An instructional gap analysis
BC AVID: Early implementation report
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
Achieving graduation for all: A governor's guide to dropout prevention and recovery
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Changing schools: A look at student mobility trends in Chicago public schools since 1995
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
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
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
Whole-school reform: Transforming the nation's low-performing high schools
Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
The impact of the mortgage crisis on children
The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school
2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
An overview of tax benefits for higher education expenses
Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)
Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
Study of the effectiveness and efficiency of charter schools in Indiana
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
"Careers for the future" education program
Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
National Council of La Raza
The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families
Impact of for-profit and non-profit management on student achievement: The Philadelphia experiment
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
Why rural matters 2007: The realities of rural education growth
School Redesign Network
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Education Commission of the States: Database of virtual high schools
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Child care and early education state-by-state data
Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005
Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care
Access to success initiative
Creating a college-going culture guide
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying career exploration and planning skills in the achievement of life career goals
Knowing how and where to obtain information about the world of work and post-secondary training/education
Ohio's career development program
A Better Chance.org
Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community
Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality
Value-added analysis and education policy
Projections of education statistics to 2016
Condition of education 2008
Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges, and long-range plans
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GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage
New England Journal of Higher Education
A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000
Programs at higher education institutions for disadvantaged precollege students
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The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance
More student success: A systemic solution
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
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
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Closing the achievement gap: School, community, family connections
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
Strengthening state policies to increase the education and skills of low-wage workers
Connecting schools, families, and communities: Stories and results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education investments
Center for Law and Social Policy
ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
Indiana Partnerships Center
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
State future workforce gap summaries
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students
SMASH Academy
Minority student achievement network
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children
Foundation for excellent schools
National Association of Street Schools
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America
Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
Gender gap grows
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
The Progress of education reform: Hispanic achievement
Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap
Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students
Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?
Latino achievement in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Achieving the dream: Community colleges count
CPS: A leader in AP growth
California trends in student aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04
State and district approaches to school improvement: Helping all students meet high academic standards
Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Understanding college access for under-represented students: Trends, issues, and strategies
Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities
Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students
Center for Student Opportunity
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Access and participation profiles
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success
High school graduation rates by race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, free and reduced price lunch
A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities
Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom
Achieving diversity: Race neutral alternatives in American education
Beyond percentage plans: The challenge of equal opportunity in higher education
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
College affordability: Overlooked long-term trends and recent 50 state patterns
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report
National college access network
Rural education at a glance
Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education
School relationships foster success for African American students
State higher education finance: FY 2003
Gender equity in higher education: Are males at a disadvantage
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
In state tuition for undocumented immigrants
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions
A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices
P-16: Building a cohesive education system from preschool through postsecondary
Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
College is possible
Multiple pathways and state policy: Toward education and training beyond high school
Improving the middle grades: Actions that can be taken now
Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation
Women on the rise
Articulation, alignment, and the challenge of college-readiness
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
College access: A framework for systemic program development
Black, White and Brown: Latino school desegragation efforts in the pre- and post- Brown vs. the Board of Education era
An historical overview of revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary education, by state: Fiscal years 1990-2002
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Translations for success
Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in Their Children's Education: A Guide for Teachers
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
Rescuing Brown v. Board of Education: Profiles of twelve school districts pursuing socioeconomic school integration
The effects of using ACT® Composite score and high school average on college admission decisions for racial/ethnic groups
More states using the ACT as part of alignment efforts
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
Washington Data and Reports
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
Rethinking high school: An introduction to New York City's experience
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Retooling career and technical education
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity
Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
Full-day Kindergarten: A study of state policies in the United States
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
The career pathways how-to guide
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Closing the racial achievement gap: The role of reforming instructional practices
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)
Latinos in secondary education
Indiana's 2006 graduation rate
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy
Catching the Dream
After Michigan, what? Next steps for affirmative action
Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors
Jonathan Kozol interview transcript: Source material for "Segregation and its Calamitous Effects, America's "Apartheid" Schools"
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Coercive mobility and crime: A preliminary examination of concentrated incarceration and social disorganization
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness
Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
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
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
One in seven: Ranking youth disconnection in the 25 largest metro areas
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
Growing awareness, growing support: Teacher and voter understanding of the common core state standards and assessments
Public education finances: 2010
2012 SREB Annual Report
Common core state standards & career and technical education: Bridging the divide between college and career readiness
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
The condition of education 2012 (Website)
MTE Partnership seeks to transform mathematics teacher preparation in support of common core standards
Repository of resources for undocumented students
Understanding state school funding: The first step toward quality reforms
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Preparing all teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learners: Applying research to policy and practice for teacher effectiveness
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
Latino college completion in 50 states
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Is high school tough enough?
On the road to success
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
Education and incarceration
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
Just for the kids
The segregation of American teachers
Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society
School and parent interaction by household language and poverty status: 2002–03
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Mathematics and science education in the states
A road map for learning: Improving educational outcomes in foster care: A strategic guide for success in school
Talent Development High Schools
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
Rethinking high school: Inaugural graduations at New York City's new high schools
All over the map: State policies to improve the American high school
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Latinos in elementary education
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
State fiscal crises and cuts in higher education: The implications for access, institutional performance, and strategic reengineering
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Standards for quality online teaching
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Brown at 50: King's dream or Plessy's nightmare
Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist
Below the accountability radar screen: What does state policy say about school counseling
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions
American Indian and Alaska Native children: Findings from the base year of the early childhood longitudinal study, birth cohort
Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country
National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students
Closing the achievement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
New bet for better schools? Diversifying philanthropic strategies to improve student learnings
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Standardization vs. flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
The ASCA national model
Sustaining focus on secondary school reading: Lessons and recommendations from the Alabama reading initiative
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Women, minorities, and persons with disabilties in science and engineering
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
Findings from the early college high school initiative: A look at best practices and lessons learned regarding a dual enrollment program
NCLB and high schools
Community college enrollment
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Mathematics and science achievement and course-taking for college-bound high school students
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
Best practices and programs in career and technical education
Education issues 2007
Accelerated learning for all
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`
Literacy behind bars: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy prison survey
They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education
Does diversity make a difference? Three research studies on diversity in college classrooms
Public attitudes on higher education
College completion: Additional efforts could help education with its completion goals
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation
Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century
The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality
Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend
State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students' success
Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement
Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth
Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012
Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy
Reflecting on reconnecting males to higher education
School counselors by state, 2002
Moving forward with Core 40
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
Lesser and greater expectations: The wasted senior year and college-level study in high school
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions
The graduation gap: Using promoting power to examine the number and characteristics of high schools with high and low graduation rates in the nation and in each state
Measuring up 2004
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
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Indian students and college preparation
Career academies: Impacts on students' engagement and performance in high school
High Tech High Foundation
American Indian science and engineering society
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
State systems of performance accountability for community colleges: Impact and lessons for policymakers
Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
Overview and inventory of state education reforms
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
Strategic instruction model
Raising minority academic achievement: A compendium of education programs and practices
What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction
Creating schools that work
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Smart boys, bad grades
State of college admission 2007
The art of student retention
Residence and migration for college freshmen for Indiana
Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth
National High School Center
Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses
A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources
Pathways to college access and success
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives
Alpha Phi Alpha: Go to high school, go to college initiative
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
Ohio early college high school initiative
Noncredit enrollment in workforce education: State policies and community college practices
Community colleges under stress
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Literacy instruction in the content areas: Getting to the core of middle and high school improvement
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
The evaluation of enhanced academic instruction in after-school programs: Findings after the first year of implementation
Examining American Indian perspectives in the Central Region on parent's involvement in education
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
The minds of boys
Strategic directions in Indiana education
Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect
The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and public policy
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance
Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
Career development and occupational studies resource guide with core curriculum
Racial disparities and the new federalism
Race, schools, and neighborhoods: Reducing barriers to achievement
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
Orphan Foundation of America
The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences
Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact
Career pathways: A strategy for transforming America's workforce education systems to support economic growth
Improving quality and equity in education: Inspriring a new century of excellence in teaching and assessment
Economic mobility project
Economic mobility of black and white families
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America
Enrollment status and outcomes
The Kalamazoo Promise
Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying employment readiness skills and the skills for on-the-job success
North Central Regional Educational Research Laboratory: Data Primer
Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education
Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
Student-to-counselor ratios 2006
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
High school - Advanced placement
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
The role of interim assessments in a comprehensive assessment system: A policy brief
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
The proficiency illusion
Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement
State of college readiness for Latino students
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices
What works clearinghouse: English language learners
Knowing and being known: Personalization as a foundation for student learning
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success
Think again: The connection between education and true independence
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements
Youth and schools today: Why SEL is needed
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education (Database)
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893) Summary
Mythbusting: Breaking down confidentiality and decision-making barriers to meet the education needs of children in foster care
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
National Center for Summer Learning
Gallup student poll national report
Center for data-driven reform in education (CDDRE)
Learning Point Associates: Data for school improvement
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
National League of Cities
2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)
Urban school counseling: Context, characteristics, and competencies
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
The forgotten choice? Rethinking magnet schools in a changing landscape
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Students earning zero credits
Diversity and affirmative action in higher education
Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals
Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992-2022 (State Profiles)
Social programs that work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Changes in Indiana school funding
Moving English language learners to college- and career-readiness
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Seize the moment: The need for a comprehensive federal investment in adolescent literacy
Projections of education statistics to 2018
Family firsts: Reach for your dreams
Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts
The state of learning disabilities 2009
The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools
Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done
Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise
Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention
BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary
Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university
Background and context for equity audits
Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary
Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
Still a freshman: Examining the prevalence and characteristics of ninth-grade retention across six states
Invisible: 1.4 percent coverage for education is not enough
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Diversifying the STEM pipeline: The model replication institutions program
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Beyond the bake sale: A community-based relational approach to parent engagement in schools
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
After the stimulus money ends: The status of state k-12 education funding and reforms
Duration and intensity: No time for cutting corners
A crucible moment: College learning & democracy's future
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
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
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009
Special education in high school redesign
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes
Trends in student aid 2011
Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08
Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009
The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Helping students get back on track: What federal policymakers can learn from New York City's multiple pathways to graduation initiative
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Digest of education statistics 2010, and mini-digest of education statistics 2010
The state fiscal stabilization fund and higher education spending
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Kids Count Data Center
State of metropolitan America: The new metro minority map: Regional shifts, in Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks from Census 2010
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
The Future Ready Project
The case for change in college admissions
A big apple for educators: New York City's experiment with schoolwide performance bonuses
2011 Kids count data book: State profiles of child well-being:
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
IES What Works Clearinghouse: Find what works
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
College completion toolkit
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Shut out of the military: Today's high school education doesn't mean you're ready for today's army
Catalyst for completion: Performance-based funding in higher education: A case study of three states
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do teachers need to know?
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (March 2011 Update)
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
Developmental education in community colleges
Transforming teacher education through clinical practice: A national strategy to prepare effective teachers
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
State characteristics: Kindergarten
PreK-Grade 3: Which reading and literacy practices matter most?
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
7th Annual AP report to the nation
Mentoring in schools: An impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring
After the bell: What do we want our afterschool programs to do?
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices
A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force
The College Completion Agenda
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
The worst of times: Children in extreme poverty in the South and nation
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
College Board AP Summary Reports: 2009
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
HBCU distance learning 2010
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Database of Indiana school referenda
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
School-based mentoring: Weighing future investments
Improving teacher quality: Here's how (guidebook)
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Effective instructional strategies
American Diploma Project (ADP) end-of-course exams: 2009 Annual report
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
Addressing study error in the random assignment national evaluation of Upward Bound: Do the conclusions change?
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Committee for Economic Development (CED)
Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions
Retaining teacher talent: Teaching for a living
Transforming schools to meet the needs of students: Improving school quality and increasing learning time in ESEA
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health
Does closing schools cause educational harm? A review of the research
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
Funding career pathways and career pathway bridges: A federal policy toolkit for states
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
SREB/Go Alliance
Focus on the school calendar
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
The current status of school counseling outcome research
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Strengthening partnerships and building public will for out-of-school time programs
High school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2007
Center on Education and the Workforce
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Who are America's poor children: The official story
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
Time for learning: Education policy whitepaper
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up