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Earning College Credit in High School: Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate Programs

High School

High School Graduation/Dropout Prevention

Indiana

Non-traditional Students

P-16 (Pre K - Grade 16) Alignment and Initiatives

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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

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A little now for a lot later: A look at a Texas advanced placement incentive program

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The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

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Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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Mandating supplemental intervention services: Is New York state doing enough to help all students succeed?

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

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Aligning secondary and postsecondary education: Lessons from the past

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

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

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Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure

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

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National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)

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The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Late high school dropouts: Characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts

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Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

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

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Rankings of working-age adult participation rates for 50 states

Student success: Statewide P-16 programs

The education pipeline in the U.S., 1970-2000

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report

One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity

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Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

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Education commission of the states: Online high school policy database

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Indiana P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report

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Adult education participation in 2004-05

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Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future

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State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school

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Connected by 25: Financing entrepreneurship programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

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

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

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

Finishing high school: Alternative pathways and dropout recovery

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Coalition for Student Achievement

Solving the data puzzle: A "how-to" guide on collecting and sharing information to improve educational outcomes for children in out-of-home care

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

Campaign for High School Equity

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

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states

American Diploma Project Network: State Profiles

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

Preparing for the AP test

On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem

U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009

Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

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

Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools

Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Seize the moment: The need for a comprehensive federal investment in adolescent literacy

Recent participation in formal learning among working-age adults with different levels of education

The effects of cognitive-behavioral interventions on dropout for youth with disabilities

State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)

Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana

Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles

Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education

The education success program

Strategic directions in Indiana education

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

Reaching higher with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana: Focusing on the roll of community colleges

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

Advancing adults into community college programs: Data tools from Breaking Through

Science and mathematics education indicators

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

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

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

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

The nation's report card: Reading 2007

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

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

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

Minorities in higher education twenty-second annual status report: 2007 supplement

Postsecondary Access and Success

Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Aligning early learning, K-12, and postsecondary systems

Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction

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

The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business

The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states

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

Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states

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

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid

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

The dropout/graduation crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students: Failure to respond places the future of native peoples at risk

College InSight

How many schools have not made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act?

Achieve Standards Alignment Tool

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders

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

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

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

Learning connection: Providing data, resources, and tools to support student achievement

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET): Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures

Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates

The role of parents in dropout prevention: Strategies that promote graduation and school achievement

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

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

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

Raising the roof: Explore California public school data

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system

FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success

Public school graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: School year 2007-08

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

Expanded learning time by the numbers: The traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students' needs

What educators should learn from ER

America's future: Latino child well-being in numbers and trends

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

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

Alternative schools and programs for public school students at risk of educational failure: 2007-08

A Profile of California Partnership Academies 2004–2005

Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform

Digest of Education Statistics, 2009

The connection between health and high school dropout

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

Can middle school reform increase high school graduation rates?

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

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

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

A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy

Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda

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

Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students

The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles

Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it

The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers

Postsecondary success

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

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

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

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

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

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

Building an early childhood professional development system

A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for mathematics (2004)

A comparison of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects (June 2, 2010) to the American Diploma Project (ADP) benchmarks for English (2004)

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Why students drop out of school: A review of 25 years of research

Are we there yet? What policymakers can learn from Tennessee's growth model

Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic

Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project

Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use

Project U-turn

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

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

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

The achievement gap where you live

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs

Do high school grade configurations affect student achievement and outcomes?

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

Route 21: 21st century skills information, resources, and community tools

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

Gold Star School Counseling

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

High school remediation

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

The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes

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

State test score trends through 2007-08: Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention

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

How state education agencies support data-driven decision-making in districts and schools

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

Revving the education engine: Effectively aligning education, workforce, and economic development policy

Public school graduates and dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School year 2006-07

No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio

Ready or not? Literacy skills and post-secondary education

No Excuses University Network

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

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

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

Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS

Insuring college failure risk

A framework for a multi-state human capital development data system

The future of public education in New Orleans

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

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

The real technology challenge

Orphan Foundation of America

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

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

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

Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families

Child care and early education state-by-state data

Better outcomes for all: Promoting partnerships between Head Start and state Pre-K

Student-to-counselor ratios 2006

Redesigning schools: 10 features of effective schools

The nation's report card: Mathematics 2007

Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007

More information on the methodology, data, and terms used in the AP dropout factory story

Learning in a new key

Rethinking high school: Five profiles of innovative models for student success

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

50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

I-BEST a program integrating adult basic education and workforce training

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

I-STEM Resource Network

Federal Education Budget Project

Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention

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

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

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

College For Every Student

The growing imbalance: Recent trends in U.S. postsecondary education finance

Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation

Youth with disabilities in the foster care system: Barriers to success and proposed policy solutions

Windows on achievement and inequality

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

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

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

National dropout prevention center for students with disabilities

Career plan initiative "how-to" guide

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

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

Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

Taking the easy way out: How the GED testing program induces students to drop out

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

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

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

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis

Gallup student poll national report

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

Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment

Connected by 25: Financing housing supports for youth transitioning out of high school

Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009

Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans

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

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

Youth transitioning from foster care: Background, federal programs and issues for Congress

Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition

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

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

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education

2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being

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

Measuring up 2008

Flexible learning options for adult students

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

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2006

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

Dropout prevention practice guide

Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

State future workforce gap summaries

The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Opening doors: Expanding educational opportunities for low-income workers

Losing our future: How minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis

An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace

Building a career pathways system: Promising practices in community college-centered workforce development

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

Where have all the students gone

The relationship of high school graduation exams to graduation rates and SAT scores

Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work

Beyond empty promises: Policies to improve transitions into colleges and jobs

Latino youth and the pathway to college

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

The 2003 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?

School counselors by state, 2002

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students

The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act

Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy

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

2004 Public opinion survey on education in Indiana

Indiana higher education opportunity data book

Projections of education statistics to 2014

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Breaking through: Helping low-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers

Public high school graduation and college-readiness rates: 1991-2002

Enriching the high school curriculum through postsecondary credit-based transition programs

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Frequently asked questions regarding Indiana's new high school course and credit requirements

Reforming education in Indiana: High achievers speak out

Success for All Foundation

Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching

A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002

Peak experiences

The nation's dropout crisis: Indiana's tool-box to help students succeed

Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the Common Core of Data: School years 2002-03 and 2003-04

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

State of college admission 2007

What works clearinghouse

High school coursework: Policy trends and implications for higher education

User's guide to computing high school graduation rates, Volume 1: Review of current and proposed graduation indicators

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school

State higher education finance: FY 2006

Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability

National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments

Measuring up internationally: Developing skills and knowledge for the global economy

What is P-16? A primer for legislators - a practical introduction to the concept, language and policy issues of an integrated system of public education

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

ACT national curriculum survey, 2005–2006

Aligning postsecondary expectations and high school practice: The gap defined

The language of opportunity: Expanding employment prospects for adults with limited English skills

The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study

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

Schools to watch

How well are states educating our neediest children?: The Fordham report 2006

Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states

Issue brief - What students need, part 1: Dropout prevention and recovery

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Education and the economy: An indicators report

Projections of 2003-04 high school graduates: Supplemental analyses based on findings from who graduates? Who doesn't?

Indian students and college preparation

Translations for success

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

The first year of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Colorado Reports

Raising the compulsory school attendance age: The case for reform

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

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

Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study

More states using the ACT as part of alignment efforts

Indiana college completion rates 2007

Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs

Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools

Expanding learning time in high schools

Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (English version)

Literacy behind bars: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy prison survey

Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments

Nontraditional undergraduates

MHEC in Indiana 2005-06: Responding to constituent's needs in a changing climate

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

An historical overview of revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary education, by state: Fiscal years 1990-2002

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

Latinos in secondary education

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

Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

Keeping America competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education

All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006

Best practices and programs in career and technical education

EPAS®: A system that works

Academic and noncognitive variables related to PLAN scores

Educational Attainment in the United States 2006

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP

Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment

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

Three-year graduation rates for associate students

State of adult literacy

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models

Sustaining focus on secondary school reading: Lessons and recommendations from the Alabama reading initiative

YMCA

From cradle to career: Connecting American education f