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

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

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Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

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

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Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

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

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

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

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Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

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

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

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

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

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

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

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

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

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

The Breakthrough High School project

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

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The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

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

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

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

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

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

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

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

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

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

Emerging evidence on improving high school graduation and improvement rates: The effects of four popular improvement programs

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

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

High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action

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

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Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

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

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

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

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

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

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

Promoting school readiness through universal preschool

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

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

Expanded learning: Making it work for high school students

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

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

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The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

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

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

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

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Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

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

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

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Education Equality Project

Campaign for High School Equity

Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs

National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis

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

College readiness and high school-to-college success

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

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

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

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Fighting for quality and equality, too: How states and policymakers can ensure the drive to improve teacher quality doesn't just trickle down to poor and minority children

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

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

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

Annotated bibliography of resources for transforming school counseling

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

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

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

Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues

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

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

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

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

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

The opportunity illusion: Subsidized housing and failing schools in California

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

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

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

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

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

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

The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra

Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy

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

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation

Summer Search

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

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

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

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

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

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

Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth

Education watch 2009

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

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

A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

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

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

Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction

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

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

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

Breaking the habit of low performance: Successful school restructuring stories

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

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

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

Project U-turn

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

It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs

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

Pathways to College Network

A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity

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

Summer bridge programs: Helping eighth-grade students successfully transition to high school

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

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

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

This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: An implementation guide for school district administrators

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

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

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

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Middle Start

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

Ensuring academic success for English learners

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap

Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children

Priming the pump: Strategies for increasing the achievement of underrepresented minority undergraduates

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Miles to go: Louisiana

Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership

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

Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move

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

Best evidence encyclopedia: Center for data-driven reform in education

Achievement in America

African American achievement in America

Latino achievement in America

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

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

Latino youth and the pathway to college

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

American student achievement institute

Primary progress, secondary challenge

Pathways to college access and success

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

National college access network

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

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

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

Gateway to College

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

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

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

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

States' progress toward high school restructuring

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

Learning in a new key

Opportunity in America: The role of education

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

'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards

Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice

The national articulation and transfer network

Access to success initiative

The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools

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

Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application

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

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state

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

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives

A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools

ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)

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

Improving math performance

Expanding learning time in high schools

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

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

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

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

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

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

The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

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

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

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

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

Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers

Measuring up 2008

Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

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

Who graduates in California?

Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools

McNair scholar handbook

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

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

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

Education Trust, Inc

Our impoverished view of education reform

Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities

The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success

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

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

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

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

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

Minority student achievement network

Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

High school curriculum, diplomas, and SAT Scores: How high school curriculum and diploma choices relate to SAT scores and college choice

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

The American diploma project: Overview of research

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

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

Add and subtract: Dual enrollment as a state strategy to increase postsecondary success for underrepresented students

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

School relationships foster success for African American students

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

Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative fact sheet

Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform

Postsecondary access for Latino middle-grades students (PALMS)

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

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

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Engaging students, challenging the odds

Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education

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

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

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

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

Breaking through the barriers to college: Empowering low-income communities, schools, and families for college opportunity and student financial aid

Catching the Dream

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

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

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

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

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

Effective instructional strategies

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

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

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

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

Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions

Complete College America

Family factors and student outcomes

On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State

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

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

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

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

Equity overlooked: Charter schools and civil rights policy

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

The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities

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

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

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

The Condition of Education 2010

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

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

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

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

Common Standards: The Time Is Now

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

The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success

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

Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college

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

Deciding on postsecondary education

Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

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

Meaningful measurement: The role of assessments in improving high school education in the twenty-first century

Improving low performing high schools: Searching for evidence of promise

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

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

The challenge of college readiness

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Field guide for improving student success

Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement

Student Success Skills: Tools and strategies for improved academic and social outcomes

Social Programs that Work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Effectiveness, not seniority: Keeping the best teachers in high-need schools

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

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

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

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

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

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition

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

No Excuses University Network

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

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

Innovations in education: Creating strong supplemental educational services programs

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

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

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

The impact of peers on college preparation: A review of the literature

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

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

Listening to Latinas: Barriers to high school graduation

Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students

Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions

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

Coalition for Student Achievement

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

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

Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework

Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment

Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers

The 5th annual AP report to the nation

Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success

Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence

From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions

National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice

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

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

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

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Close the hidden funding gaps in our schools

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

Center on Education and the Workforce

The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges

Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility

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

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

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Education Trust-West

Early colllege high school: Increased rigor, enhanced support (videos of Indiana early college high schools)

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

The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs

A next social contract for the primary years of education

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

What does research say about 21st century skills?

Curriculum and instruction: A 21st century skills implementation guide

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Turnaround schools that work: Moving beyond separate but equal

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad

Que pasa? Are English language learning students remaining in English learning classes too long?

College readiness issue brief: Using data to improve educational outcomes

Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools

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

The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education

Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems

Research to practice: The future of the regional educational labs

Indiana Growth Model Factsheet

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

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

Chronic early absence: Providing solutions for increasing achievement in the early grades and preventing school drop-out

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

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

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

Double the work: Challenges and solutions to acquiring academic literacy for adolescent English language learners

The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities

American diploma project network Indiana action plan

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

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

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

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

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

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

Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework

Bridge Partnership

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

The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare

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

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

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

CPS: A leader in AP growth

Creating helping environments for college-going: The CHEPA CHEC-list for counselors

Reclaiming the American dream

Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors

Beyond percentage plans: The challenge of equal opportunity in higher education

A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access

Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success

Preparing students for success in college

The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and minority students

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

College success programs

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

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

Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships

How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education

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

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

A shared agenda: A leadership challenge to improve college access and success

Education dedicated to black males still relevant

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

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Addressing achievement gaps: Leading the challenge of developing high-potential youth

Cal-SOAP

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

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

Academic pathways to access and student success

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

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

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

Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

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

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students

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

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

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

Setting the record straight: How trendy approaches to college access might or might not be helping low-income students

I-STEM Resource Network

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

Science and mathematics education indicators

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

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

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

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

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

What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

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

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