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Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
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This working paper is a supplement to the Commission's Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana adopted in June 2007. The working paper was prepared to elicit further discussion and define action items for moving forward with strategic directions on accountability.
This working paper is a supplement to the Commission's Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana adopted in June 2007. The working paper was prepared to elicit further discussion and define action items for moving forward with strategic directions on accountability.
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Accountability and Productivity (Postsecondary)
College Access
Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion
Employment and Workforce Development
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Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Federal access policies and higher education for working adults
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The future of middle-skill jobs
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Economic state of young America
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
National Council of La Raza
Higher education accountability for student learning
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity
The path to prosperity: A policy of investment
A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study
Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers
Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
Indiana's postsecondary indicators: 2004 performance and descriptive indicators
Access denied: Restoring the nation's commitment to equal educational opportunity
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Educational needs index
Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools
Eliminating complexity and inconsistency in federal financial aid programs for higher education students: Towards a more strategic approach
On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
Education and the economy: An indicators report
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality
Catching the Dream
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier
Costs, prices, and affordability
Collegiate learning assessement project
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
The completion arch: Measuring community college student success
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Reducing undergraduate debt to increase Latina and Latino participation in STEM professions
Valuable learning or "spinning their wheels"?: Understanding excess credits earned by community college associate degree completers
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities
Connecting the dots between learning and resources
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs
One dream, two realities: Perspectives of parents on America's high schools
2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
No DREAMers left behind: The economic potential of DREAM Act beneficiaries
Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Can simple be equitable? Lessons from state grant programs
High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
Trends in student aid 2011
Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
The College Match Program
Latino college completion: Florida
Latino college completion: State series
Improving community college success
Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy
Trends in student aid 2012
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure
College learning for the new global century
Just for the kids
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Cashing in on the GI bill
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment
Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act
College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
California trends in student aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources
Mississippi's mandate: How investment in education pays off in Mississippi
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
Education Commission of the States: Postsecondary Issues
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
Workforce contingent financial aid: How states link financial aid to employment
Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer
Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success
Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective
In state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds
Accounting for state student aid: How state policy and student aid connect
State higher education finance: FY 2003
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Student success: Statewide P-16 programs
LearnMore Indiana Resource Center
College of Adult and Professional Studies
Opening Doors project publications
Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position
AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni
State fiscal crises and cuts in higher education: The implications for access, institutional performance, and strategic reengineering
Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education
Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam
Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07
Opportunity in America: The role of education
Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005
Camino de la universidad: The road to college
Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
The state of American manhood
Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century
Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool
Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
The fiscal impacts of college attainment
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Investing in lasting change: Productivity and U.S. higher education
From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
The future workforce of Indiana
21st Century skills, education, and competitiveness: A resource and policy guide
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools
MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07
Promising practices for community college developmental education
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Postsecondary connection: Making the link between high school preparation and college success
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
Are student employment and academic success linked?
"Why access matters" revisited: A review of the latest research
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design
IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle
How much are college students borrowing?
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Higher education commission helps high schools track graduates' progress
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
The impact of "going green" on the Latino community
The Condition of Education 2010
Center on Education and the Workforce
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue
The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Complete College America
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Higher education budgets and the global recession
Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
Metrics for improving cost accountability
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
ACE Online Information Center
The Canadian student financial aid system: The case for modernization
Is university education in Canada more affordable than in the United States?: A Review of the Argument Presented in The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Tuition fees and student financial assistance: 2010 Global year in review
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Redesigning community colleges for completion: Lessons from research on high performance organizations
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
How college pricing undermines financial aid
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010
Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma
Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness
Can transfer and articulation policies propel communtiy college students to a bachelor's degree-and is that the only goal?
Do institutions respond asymmetrically to changes in state need- and merit-based aid?
Why is college so expensive?
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Mind the gaps: How college readiness narrows achievement gaps in college success
Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative
Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth
What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?
Research support for school counseling
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Student success in higher education
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
The limited career prospects for high school graduates without additional education and training
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Common measures for college access and success
Adult college completion toolkit
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
What's it worth: The economic value of college majors
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes
Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Using linked data to drive education and training improvement
Latino college completion: California
Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
The Future Ready Project
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth: A key to higher education access and success: Version 2.0
The truth behind higher education disclosure laws
Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
Leveraging data for college completion
Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education
General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
The American freshman: National norms fall 2011
Creating the workforce of the future: The STEM interest and proficiency challenge
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions
Tuition and Fees in the West 2011-12
Defining college readiness: Where are we now, are where do we need to be?
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
The American middle class, income inequality, and the strength of our economy: New evidence in economics
A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
Return on investment to increasing postsecondary credential attainment in the United States
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
What is "career ready"?
What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability
A sound investment: The community college dividend
Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
National Center for Academic Transformation
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together
Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Understanding the working college student
College graduation rates: Behind the numbers
Partnerships that promote success: Lessons from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Proposed legislative changes to the post-9/11 GI Bill: Potential implications for veterans and colleges
Next generation learning: The intelligent use of technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways
Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs
A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Taking the next step: The promise of intermediate measures for meeting postsecondary completion goals
One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
How military veterans are using the post-9/11 GI Bill and adapting to life in college
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training
Transfer and articulation policies
Closing the gap between high school and college
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Cross-system collaboration for reconnecting youth
Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
College completion toolkit
Community college student survey
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
Everybody ready for college
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
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
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education
Insuring college failure risk
Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010
Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers
Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students
Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Student loan forgiveness programs: An evolving workforce development tool
College Savings Foundation
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation
The effects of public support on college attainment
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes
Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
The breaking through practice guide
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
What does a college degree cost? Comparing approaches to measuring "cost per degree"
Impact of college rankings on institutional decision making: Four country case studies
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
Center for College Affordability and Productivity
Financial aid in theory and practice
The dreaded "P" word: An examination of productivity in public postsecondary education
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
Making high school students into "college material"
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Schools, skills, and synapses
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Flexible learning options for adult students
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Dedicated funding for higher education: Alternatives for tough economic times
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
The economics of higher education access in Indiana
Economic mobility project
Economic mobility of black and white families
Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
The real technology challenge
Quality counts 2008: Indiana report
Quality counts 2008
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development
Career pathways: A strategy for transforming America's workforce education systems to support economic growth
A college access contract
Workers need training, not tough talk
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Condition of education 2008
The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction
Indiana R&D 2008: Meeting the global challenge for innovation
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Diverse issues in higher education
The male achievement gap in Indiana
What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities
Adult learners: A data and policy perspective
Indiana college success coalition
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
School Redesign Network
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Alabama state report
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow's workforce
Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Indiana State Profile
Digest of Education Statistics
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
College affordability for students from low and lower-middle income families
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005
Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West
What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education
The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt
Responding to the crisis in college opportunity
Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.
Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships
Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century
College affordability in jeopardy: The rising price of higher education
Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
College affordability: Overlooked long-term trends and recent 50 state patterns
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Student aid and tax benefits: Better research and guidance will facilitate comparison of effectiveness and student use
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach
Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students
Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers
Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges
Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Data sources for improving college access and success
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04
Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid
Closing the expectations gap: 2006
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience
Lumina Foundation focus
Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
The high cost of failing to reform public education in Indiana
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
American Indian higher education consortium
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Doors of opportunity opening or closing: We are using tax credits and tuition discounts to appease middle-class voters instead of expanding educational opportunity
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
Does public funding for higher education matter?
Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary
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Taxing matters
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid
Frequently asked questions about college costs
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
Calculating the economic value of increasing college credentials by 2025: United States
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success
Student voices on the higher education pathway: Preliminary insights & stakeholder engagement concerns
2012 SREB Annual Report
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
Employment by summary education and training assignment, 2010 and projected 2020
Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11
What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"
The state of Latinos in the United States: Although the growing population has experienced marked success, barriers remain
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Cracking the credit hour
Education, job openings, and unemployment in metropolitan America
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
It's a matter of time: Low-income students and community colleges
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
American Association of Community Colleges 2011 Advocacy Toolkit Factsheet
Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Operation College Promise
American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
Three policies to reduce time to degree
Achieving the Dream data notes: What's in a name? Are they really credential-seeking students?
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
Women Employed
Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree
Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots
Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Closing achievement gaps: Improving educational outcomes for Hispanic children: English language acquisition and middle school preparation: Keys to Latino educational success
Higher education: Students at the heart of the system
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
Measuring the education pipeline: Critical data elements indicating readiness, transition and success
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
The common core state standards: Implications for higher education in the west
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
SREB State Data Exchange: 2009-10 Indicators report
Trends in student aid 2010
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
The condition of education 2011
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Time to completion
Field of degree and earnings by selected employment characteristics: 2011
An examination of the information technology job market
A better affirmative action: State universities that created alternatives to racial preferences
The SAT report on college & career readiness: 2012
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009
Tuition and fees in public higher education in the west: 2012-2013 Detailed tuition and fees table
Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process
A framework for advancing career and technical education: Recommendations for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act
National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Recent STEM initiatives
The career pathways how-to guide
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01
One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs
Benefits of a high school core curriculum
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
The promise and practice of employer educational assistance programs: 2004 State of the field strategies and trends
Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model
The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities
Closing the achievement gap: An overview
America's perfect storm: Three forces changing our nation's future
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
Collaborative efforts in student retention: A snapshot of best practices across the nation
How do financial aid policies affect colleges? The institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship
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
Campus-based student financial aid programs under the higher education act
Student loan forgiveness programs
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Financial aid and postsecondary opportunity for nontraditional age pre-college students: The roles of information and education delivery systems
High school counselors handbook 2004-05
2002 State new economy index
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Access to higher education in Indiana
Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid volume II
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges
NDSFA: The financial aid partnership
High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities
Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)
Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era
Undocumented immigrant students: A very brief overview of access to higher education in California
Indiana dollars for scholars
Advisory committee on student financial assistance
Financial aid: A shared agenda to achieve access and success for under-served students
Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults
Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students
The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education
Policies in sync: Appropriations, tuition, and financial aid in higher education
Educational attainment in the United States: 2003
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
Value added: The costs and benefits of college preparatory programs in the united states
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability
Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship
The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
Findings from the Condition of Education 2001: Students whose parents did not go to college
Do grants matter?
Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
Just and efficient college finance
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity
Financial aid awareness and college attainment
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Educational opportunity for all?
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Latinos in graduate education
Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation
Federal Student Aid (FSA)
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Washington state report
Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Database of 21st century skills assessments
Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices
Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world
Wrestling rising costs with innovation
SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success
College for working adults
Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education
Advising adult learners: The adult learning focused institution
Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information
Toward a national workforce education and training policy
America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond
Strengthening state policies to increase the education and skills of low-wage workers
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
State higher education finance: 2007
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Businesses to advocate for two-year colleges
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
Education and economic competitiveness
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
Manchester College: Fast forward program
Orphan Foundation of America
Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures
Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers
Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
USA Funds: Indiana state resources
Indiana higher education facts
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
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
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
State higher education finance: Early release FY 2008
Educational policies for integrating college competencies and workforce needs: Cases from Brazil, Mongolia, Ukraine, and the United States
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
The Working Poor Families Project
Trends in student aid 2008
Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers
Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)
Field guide for improving student success
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Progress and gaps in college preparation policy
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2008 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2007-08, and 12-month enrollment 2007-08
Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth
Education at a glance 2009: OECD indicators
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
College readiness and high school-to-college success
A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management
Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals
Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges
Public institution and university system financial conditions survey
Quick facts about financial aid and community colleges, 2007-08
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Trends in the higher education labor force: Identifying changes in worker composition and productivity
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
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
What does research say about 21st century skills?
Maximizing the potential of older adults: Benefits to state economies and individual well-being
Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors
Maintenance of effort: An evolving federal-state policy approach to ensuring college affordability
Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey
The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes
What are we doing to middle school English learners? Findings and recommendations for change from a study of California EL programs
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
The workplace realities
False fronts? Behind higher education's voluntary accountability systems
Leadership to enhance college access and success
A snapshot of African Americans in higher education
"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Rising by Degrees
Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
Financial education in TRIO programs
Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West: 2009-10
High school remediation
Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009
La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009 (Spanish language version)
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP)
Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada
A detection model of college withdrawal
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Breaking new ground: Building a national workforce skills credentialing system
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
Projections of education statistics to 2019
Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions
Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know
DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed
Developmental education in community colleges
Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
How America saves for college: 2010
Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?
Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California community colleges
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF)
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Restoring the balance: Dollars, values, and the future of college sports
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
Building an early childhood professional development system
Grantmakers for Education
The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
Adult College Completion Network
Engaging adjunct and full-time faculty in student success innovation
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
Students and teachers talk about school reform and student engagement
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.
Advancing civic learning and engagement in democracy: A road map and call to action
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education
The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt
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
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships
Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Podcast: Getting high school dropouts in and out of college
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Gender inequalities in education
Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Latino college completion: Texas
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Scaling community college interventions
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
The case for change in college admissions
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
The EFC formula, 2012-2013
Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
A new mission for the middle-grades: Preparing students for a changing world
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?
Lifting the fog on inequitable financial aid policies: A companion brief to priced out: How the wrong financial aid policies hurt low-income students
Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Adolescent literacy
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Committing to quality: Guidelines for assessment and accountability in higher education
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Increasing opportunities for immigrant students: Community college strategies for success
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Survey of state tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities: 2010-11
Money, politics, and the rise of for-profit higher education in the US: A story of supply, demand and the brazilian effect
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"
Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success
Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
State aid to nonpublic schools
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Preparing high school students for college: An exploratory study of college readiness programs in Texas
The college advantage: Weathering the economic storm
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
How America pays for college 2012
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
National student aid profile: Overview of 2012 federal programs
42nd Annual survey report on state sponsored student financial aid
Repository of resources for undocumented students
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
A grounded theory of adult student persistence
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Getting past go project: State reports on the cost of remedial education
NASSGAP 40th annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2008-2009 academic year
Educational attainment in the United States: 2009
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California
Getting past go: Rebuilding the remedial education bridge to college success
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation
Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
A draft degree qualifications profile: A transformational challenge for US higher education
Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Trends in college spending: 1998-2008: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Achieving the dream data notes: Outcomes of first-year persisting students
Unions as partners: Expanding the role of organized labor in workforce development
A call for change: The social and eductational factors contributing to the outcomes of black males in urban schools
Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years
Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos
HBCU distance learning 2010
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges
Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
Why 529 college savings plans favor the fortunate
2010 census of male-focused programs: A snapshot of programs and organzations supporting American males
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Changing the odds for students: Spotlight on Kingsborough College
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Indiana's guide to paying for college: Step-by-step tips to help high school seniors apply for financial aid
Postsecondary preparation and remediation: Examining the effect of the early assessment program at California State University
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
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
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Funding university education in Ontario: Ontario University applicant survey report
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
Does money matter? II
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
Assessing Canada's student aid need assessment policies
Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education
Indiana's Cash for College
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act
Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials
Student debt 101
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Tuition-setting authority and deregulation at state colleges and universities
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
A next social contract for the primary years of education
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04
The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families
Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)
Federal student aid's oversight and monitoring of guaranty agencies, lenders, and servicers needs improvement
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
Characteristics of private student loan borrowers who do not use federal education loans
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
39th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
IPEDS Data Center
The state of learning disabilities 2009
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
IDA Pays: Examining the potential of education IDAs
IDAs and financial aid: Understanding the puzzle and sharing best practices
College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Stronger department of education oversight needed to help ensure only eligible students receive federal student aid
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)
Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education
Easing the middle-class burden: An Examination of the implications of reducing parental contributions to post-secondary study
Measuring the effectiveness of student assistance - Annual report 2006
Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Trends in student aid 2009
Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college
The 2008 amendments to the Higher Education Act: Are we on the right track?
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support
College tools for schools
Trends in college pricing 2008
"Careers for the future" education program
Trends in college spending: Where does the money come from? Where does it go?
Think college? Me? Now?
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet (Spanish Version)
Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
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
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
A brief history of veterans' education benefits and their value
Indiana Workforce Development: Education and training options (search training programs)
Institutions with approved programs for veterans to receive educational benefits
Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes
Windows on achievement and inequality
Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report
More student success: A systemic solution
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11
Low-income students and college success: More than money
Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Indiana's guide to paying for college
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
Breaking through: Factsheet
Education Finance Council
Who graduates in California?
The Sallie Mae Fund
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Academic competitiveness grants
Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents
Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care
What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Survey finds that Hoosier students are setting their sights on higher education
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
National Center on Education and the Economy
McNair scholar handbook
Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana
College For Every Student
Fast foward: Find your place - faster
Accelerated developmental education project
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?
Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services
Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events
Student debt and the class of 2006
Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007
Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families
Families forgotten: Administration's priorities put child care low on list
The Breakthrough High School project
Postsecondary education tuition and required fees in Indiana: 2007-09
Preparing Indiana for the 21st Century
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
Education and public safety
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
Financing workforce development programs for youth transitioning out of foster care
The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
2006-07 Washington state tuition and fee report
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)
Dream it! Do it!
FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid
Leading by example
Feasibility of a student unit record system within the integrated postsecondary education data system
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Transfer college quality and student performance
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
How do I pay for college?
Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Accelerated learning for all
What's wrong with guys?
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Great summer jobs: Explore careers and gain valuable experience
Cómo pagar por sus estudios universitarios (Financial aid guide)
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Guide for parents: Ten steps to prepare your child for college
Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs
State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality
Informing public policy: Financial aid and student persistence
Losing ground: A national status report on the affordability of American higher education
It's all relative: The role of parents in college financing and enrollment
21st century skills for 21st century jobs
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
The policy of choice: Expanding student options in higher education
Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states
Annotated list of Pathways research, papers, reports, and other publications by focus area
Effects of students' middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates
The educational, social, and economic benefits of making informed and considered career decisions
College success programs
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain
Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid
Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education
Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Designing a state student grant program: A framework for policy makers
The investment payoff: A 50 state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education.
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Adult learners and state policy
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
Reframing the student loan costing debate: The benefits of competition
Foster youth: Funding for college
Investment payoff: The benefits of a higher education in the Midwestern states
The broader societal benefits of higher education
Higher education's contribution to the knowledge economy
By the numbers: State goals for increasing postsecondary attainment
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Access and persistence: Fall 2005
Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work
To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults
Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01
Education Planner
Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges
Examining college remediation trends in Indiana
NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good
NDSFA: Recommendations for improving federal aid delivery
Literature review: Intervention methods and programs for pre-college entry for disadvantaged students
Trends in college pricing 2006
Early college high school model: Strategy for high school completion, college access and success
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
College access marketing campaigns: Influencing college-going behaviors of underrepresented students
The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system
Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states
Miles to go: Louisiana
NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive
The future of private loans: Who is borrowing and why?
America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students
The feasibility of delivering aid for college through the tax system
Report of Rhode Island case study site visit
Financial aid issues for students from low income families
Grappling with the access problem
Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness
Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses
Accelerated learning options: Moving the needle on access and success
Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality
Project on student debt.org
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
Claiming common ground: State policymaking for improving college readiness and success
College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid
Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization
College on credit: How borrowers perceive their education debt
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Steps to success (English and Spanish Versions)
Resources for businesses hiring formerly incarcerated persons
After prison: Roadblocks to reentry: A report on state legal barriers facing people with criminal records
High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
National HIRE network: Resources and assistance: Indiana
Stats Indiana
Adult learners and new traditions in higher education
The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling
American diploma project network Indiana action plan
Going to the source: A practical way to simplify the FAFSA
Straight from the source: What works for first-generation college students
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Common Core implementation workbook
Providing greater opportunities for deeper learning in NCLB waivers
Labor market returns to sub-baccalaureate credentials: How much does a community college degree or certificate pay?
Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Keeping students on course: An impact study of a student success course at Guilford Technical Community College
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization may move youth development field back a decade: Analysis of H.R. 4297 through a youth advocacy lens
Trends among young adults over three decades, 1974-2006
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
5 Education factors in focus
Pursuing the American Dream: Economic mobility across generations
Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
The current health and future well-being of the American research university
Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Left out. Forgotten? Recent high school graduates and the Great Recession
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
Promising and practical strategies to improve postsecondary education
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Using No Child Left Behind waivers to improve english language learner education
California District Report Cards
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state) Updated 2012
Is high school tough enough?
2011 Year in review: Global changes in tuition fee policies and student assistance
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
Waiving away high school graduation rate accountability?
Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends
Hard times: College majors, unemployment and earnings: Not all college degrees are created equal
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
State responses to the increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders
Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges
Making college more affordable: The president's plan to lower college tuition is a good first step but more can be done
STEM: State reports and state level analysis
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Higher education spending and the state fiscal stabilization fund, part 3: State case studies
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
Trends in college pricing 2011
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries:
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
An economy that works: Job creation and America's future
Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds
Project WIn-Win
P21 common core toolkit: A guide to aligning the common core state standards with the framework for 21st century skills
Workforce development economics 101: State by state snapshots
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?
Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs
College Savings Foundation: 2011 Survey of parents
Unequal aid: Discriminatory treatment of gay and transgender applicants and families headed by same-sex couples in the higher education financial aid process
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Student debt and the class of 2011
Taking college courses in high school: A strategy for college readiness
Transfer: An indispensable part of the community college mission
How do recent college grads really stack up? Employment and earnings for graduates of the Great Recession
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Innovation in higher education: Public opinion survey results
The student debt crisis
The future of the US workforce: A survey of hiring practices across industries
Promoting work-based learning: Efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky
Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices
High standards help struggling students: New evidence
Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
Fact book bulletin: College degrees benefit states and individuals significantly
Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap
Setting a public agenda for higher education in the states: Lessons learned from the national collaborative for higher education policy
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration
Participation in adult education for work-related reasons: 2002-03
Profile of undergraduates in U.S. postsecondary education institutions: 2003-04, With a special analysis of community college students
Engaging students, challenging the odds
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
A few strings attached: State retention programs
Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers
Financial aid, access, and America's social contract with higher education
National football league high school website: Academics
Middle Start
Schools to watch
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study
Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly
Helping adult learners make the transition to postsecondary education
Mathematics and science education in the states
Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice
The debt explosion among college graduates
No way out: Student loans, financial distress, and the need for policy reform
Student debt: Bigger and bigger
Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society
Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives
Consolidation loans: Redesign options and considerations
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Involving families in high school and college expectations
36th annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid, 2004 - 2005 academic year
Contending with financial inequality
Detailed information on the Montgomery GI bill - veterans education benefits assessment
Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries
Minority teacher/special education services scholarship
National association of state approving agencies
GI bill: A reality check
Federal student aid for counselors
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
Changes in patterns of prices and financial aid
Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education
Admission possible
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth
Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education
Charting a new course for career and technical education
Do merit scholarships promote college access? Evidence from two states
Bridging the gap between high school and college
Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools
The disposable worker: Living in a job-loss economy
The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students
National Center for College Costs
Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)
How do pre-collegiate outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students
NDSFA: Fundamental assumptions and aims underlying the principles of federal financial aid to students
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: How perceptions of costs and benefits affect access to education
Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
Beyond the 49th parallel II: The affordability of university education
Measuring up on college-level learning
The Navigator
Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college
Access and persistence: Summer 2005
National High School Center
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
College preparation information from Peterson's Education Center
Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools
American youth policy forum
Building toward a better future: A college planning guide for students and their families
Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates; 1998 and 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics; Fiscal Year 2004
College Compass
Section 529 state college savings programs
Workbook of state affordability rates 2004
Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment
Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education
Addressing student loan repayment burdens: Strengths and weaknesses of the current system
Missed opportunities revisited: New information on students who do not apply for financial aid
Federal student loan debt:1993-2004
Solutions for our future.org
The social prerequisites of success: Can college structure reduce the need for social know-how
Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
National college access network
Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
Early commitment financial aid programs
Trends in student aid 2005
Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students' success
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today's colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector
Private loans and choice in financing higher education
Financial aid and scholarships for undocumented students
The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns
Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Where the boys aren't: The drift away from academic achievement is a trend
Financing higher education
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Student financial aid: Need determination could be enhanced through improvements in education's estimate of applicants state tax payments
35th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2003-04 Academic year
How families of low- and middle-income undergraduates pay for college: Full-time dependent students in 1999-2000
Public attitudes on higher education
Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice
Empty promises: The myth of college access in America
Measuring up 2004
On course for success: A close look at high school courses that prepare students for college
What role can dual enrollment programs play in easing the transition between high school and postsecondary education
Higher education reauthorization: Issues and options
Expanding college access: The impact of state finance strategies
Meeting the access challenge: Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars program
Higher education act: Reauthorization status and issues