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

College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

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

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary

Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas

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

Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth

Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus practices that work for Latino students

Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school

National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation

Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates

Promoting a culture of student success: How colleges and universities are improving degree completion

Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

Early intervention program and college partnerships

Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it

School Redesign Network

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

Urban school reform: Achievement and school climate outcomes for the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)

Making high school students into "college material"

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

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

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

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement

Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement

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

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

Giving students extra support to meet standards in challenging academic and career courses

Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first-generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas

Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

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

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

Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Engaging students, challenging the odds

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

College For Every Student

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Big ideas: Dropout prevention strategies: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

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

Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

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

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation

Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice

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

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

Growing What Works Database

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

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

BC AVID: Early implementation report

Educational Policy Improvement Center

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

PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

What educators should learn from ER

College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08

Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up

The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence

The Condition of Education 2010

New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates

Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

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

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

Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

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

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

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From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus

Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities

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

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

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

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

The value of value-added data

Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration

Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

Increasing the achievement of Native American youth at early college high schools

Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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

Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools

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

What works for Latino students

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

First generation college students: A literature review

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

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

Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

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

National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

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

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

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

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Gateway to College

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

A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)

Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement

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

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

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

McNair scholar handbook

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

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

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools

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

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Who graduates in California?

Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools

First generation students in postsecondary education: A look at their college transcripts

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

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

Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences

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

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

School context, student attitudes and behavior, and student achievement: An exploratory analysis

Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity

Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support

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

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

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

Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Miles to go: Louisiana

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

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

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

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

Success at every step: How 23 programs support youth on the path to college and beyond

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success

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

Summer Search

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

Culturally responsive Response to Intervention

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

Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs

Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College

Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions

Pre-algebra and algebra enrollment and achievement (Leading Indicators Series)

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

SREB/Go Alliance

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school

College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

The breaking through practice guide

Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know

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

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

Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success

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

Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support

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

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

Promoting a comprehensive approach to educational opportunity: A pilot inventory of education-related federal programs for children and youth

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

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

National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

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

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

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

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

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

Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Field guide for improving student success

Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college

College readiness issue brief: Social support: An essential ingredient to success

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

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

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

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

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

Bridge Partnership

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

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

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program

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

The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve

Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students

College success programs

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

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

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

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

Opportunity in America: The role of education

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

SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs

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

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

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

New England Journal of Higher Education

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

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

A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment

Education watch 2009

Creating a high school culture of college-going: The case of Washington State Achievers

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

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

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

College access and success state data

Community colleges under stress

Striking the balance: Career academies combine academic rigor and workplace relevance

Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges

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

Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

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

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

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

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

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

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

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

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

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

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

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

Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students

U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

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

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

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

Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

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

Starfish Initiative

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students

Enrollment status and outcomes

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

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

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

Achievement in America

African American achievement in America

Latino achievement in America

Characteristics of minority students who excel on the SAT and in the classroom

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

Improving college access for minority, low-income, and first-generation students

Latino youth and the pathway to college

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

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

National college access network

Pathways to college access and success

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

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid

Academic pathways to access and student success

Foundation for excellent schools

Orange juice or orange drink? Ensuring that "advanced courses" live up to their labels

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

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

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

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

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

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

Common Core State Standards Initiative

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

Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)

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

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

Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges

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

Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

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

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

College InSight

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams

New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview

Service-learning and Hispanic students: What works in the field

Complete College America

College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools

American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California

High school career academies: A 40-year proven model for improving college and career readiness

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

Gaining ground in the middle grades: Why some schools do better

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

Project U-turn

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

Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed

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

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners (ELLs)

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

Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

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

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

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

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

The Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

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

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

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

National Center for Academic Transformation

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

Using college admission test scores to clarify high school placement (Leading Indicators Series)

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

The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12

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

Global Skills for Global Completion

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

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

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

Family factors and student outcomes

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

Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters

Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

Campaign for High School Equity

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

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

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

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

Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy

Deciding on postsecondary education

Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving teacher-related goals

Education Equality Project

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

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

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

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

Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans

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

Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success

Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)

College readiness and high school-to-college success

Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

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

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

Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Mobilizing a cross-sector collaborative for systemic change: Lessons from project U-turn, Philadelphia's campaign to reduce the dropout rate

Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing

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

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

Schools to watch

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

Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)

State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians

Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

Center for Student Opportunity

Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college

Education watch online

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

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

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 whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

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

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

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

Accelerated learning for all

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

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

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

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

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Paving the way to postsecondary education: K-12 intervention programs for underrepresented youth

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

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First

Primary progress, secondary challenge

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

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

Latino youth finishing college: The role of selective pathways

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

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

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

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

Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college

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

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

Preparing diverse adolescents for the transition to adulthood

Ticket to nowhere: The gap between leaving high school and entering college and high performance jobs

Academic competitiveness grants

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

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

High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

The Breakthrough High School project

Access to success initiative

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

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence

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

A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students

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

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

YMCA

Student African American Brotherhood

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

Latest ACT National Curriculum Survey® shows lack of content alignment between high school and college

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8

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

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

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

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

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

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

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

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

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

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

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

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'

Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice

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

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

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

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

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

Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.

Flexible learning options for adult students

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

Sizing up state standards: 2008

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

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

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

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

Core problems: Out-of-field teaching persists in key academic courses and high-poverty schools

Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools

Measuring up 2008

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

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

Why Boys Fail (whyboysfail.com)

Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Economic mobility of black and white families

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

A profile of the Ronald McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program: 1999-2000

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

Upward Bound Math-Science: Program description and interim impact estimates

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

I-STEM Resource Network

Condition of education 2008

Science and mathematics education indicators

The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

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

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

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

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

Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school

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

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education

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

States' progress toward high school restructuring

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

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

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

The national articulation and transfer network

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

Learning in a new key

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

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

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

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

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

A college access contract

Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

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

Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet

Double the numbers: Postsecondary attainment and underrepresented youth

Preparing students for success in college

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

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

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

All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps

Beyond the tunnel problem: Addressing cross-cutting issues that impact vulnerable youth

Our impoverished view of education reform

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

Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program

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

Bridges to Success

Cal-SOAP

College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds

Gender gap grows

High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education

Puente Project

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

Measuring up 2006

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Minority student achievement network

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

College learning for the new global century

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Ensuring academic success for English learners

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap

Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample

Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education

Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth

Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools

Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments

The college ladder: Linking secondary and postsecondary education for success for all students

Raising minority academic achievement: A compendium of education programs and practices

College access: From the inside out

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

Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report, 2003-04

Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going

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

Talent Development Middle Schools

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

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

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

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

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

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

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

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

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

Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement

The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

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

Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

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

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

High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions

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

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Standards and assessments guide

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness

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

Effective instructional strategies

Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education

High school mentors in brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring impact study

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

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

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

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

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

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

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

Center on Education and the Workforce

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements comparison table

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

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

America after 3pm: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees

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

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

The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped

The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

The College Completion Agenda

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

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students

Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

Making the transition: Interim results of the National Guard Youth Challenge Evaluation

Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level

Education Trust-West

Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

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

Comparing achievement between K-8 and middle schools: A large empirical study

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships

Focusing on the essentials for college and career readiness: Policy implications of the ACT national curriculum survey results 2009

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: Supplement to the analysts' guide

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

Achieve Standards Alignment Tool

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

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood