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Author(s):Wise, L.L., Becker, D.E., Harris, C.D., Taylor, L.R., Johnstone, C.J., Miller, N.A., Thompson, S.J., Sun, S., Shen, X., Wang, X., Koger, L.E., and Moody, R.
Title:Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
Source:http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/thirdr...
Date:2006
Organization:California Department of Education
Short Description:This article summarizes key findings of the study on the CAHSEE and suggests policy recommendations to improve the CAHSEE and its use.
Annotation:This article summarizes key findings of the study on the CAHSEE and suggests policy recommendations to improve the CAHSEE and its use. It also provides indications of students' college readiness and college participation.
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What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
2009 ACT National and State Scores
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How schools can address barriers to high school graduation
Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
2009 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
College- and career-ready: Using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success
High school remediation
How much growth toward college readiness is reasonable to expect in high school?
High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness
Mind the (other) gap: State profiles
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
10 Ideas to ensure college readiness in the No Child Left Behind and Higher Education Acts
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
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National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Campaign for High School Equity
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
The 5th annual AP report to the nation
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates
Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006
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
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
Fixing No Child Left Behind
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college
Indiana Graduation Plan Statute
California State University: Early assessment program
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership
Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation
Measuring up 2006
Projections of education statistics to 2015
User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 2: Technical evaluation of proxy graduation indicators
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools
Data quality campaign: Using data to improve student achievement
Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students
Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
PK-3: An aligned and coordinated approach to education for children 3 to 8 years old
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels
Closing the achievement gap series part 1: Is Indiana ready for state-sponsored prekindergarten programs?
Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings
Urgent but overlooked: The literacy crisis among adolescent English language learners
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology
Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development
Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion
Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004
Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work
National High School Center
The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad
Examining college remediation trends in Indiana
Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth
Education commission of the states: Online high school policy database
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Closing the expectations gap: 2006