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Author(s):Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Title:Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
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Organization:Southern Education Foundation (SEF)
Short Description:The Southern Education Foundation, Inc. (SEF) is in the business of advancing creative solutions to ensure fairness and excellence in education for all. SEF is a public charity with offices in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Annotation:The Southern Education Foundation, Inc. (SEF) is in the business of advancing creative solutions to ensure fairness and excellence in education for all. SEF is a public charity with offices in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Through a variety of programs and strategies involving research, analysis, advocacy, technical assistance, and outreach, SEF works to: Improve education policy and practice Inform the public about education issues and policy options Strengthen parent, school, and private sector efforts to better meet the needs of underachieving students and prepare America's future workforce Promote a high quality of universal education
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Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Short sighted: How America's lack of attention to international education studies impedes improvement
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
NCES Search for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
SREB Factbook on higher education
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
The schools teachers leave: Workforce mobility in Chicago public schools
Changing schools: A look at student mobility trends in Chicago public schools since 1995
U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Complete College America
State high school exit exams: Trends in test programs, alternate pathways, and pass rates
Improving low-performing schools: Lessons from five years of studying school restructuring under No Child Left Behind
2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (State Reports)
High school remediation
Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers
Building and using longitudianal data systems for effective reporting and to improve student achievement
Empowering effective teachers: Readiness for reform
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
How bold is "bold?" Responding to Race to the Top with a bold, actionable plan on teacher effectiveness
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Teacher effectiveness
The status of state-level Response to Intervention (RTI) policies and procedures in the West region states and five other states
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Features of state response to intervention initatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Creating jobs and supporting homeless students
Supplemental educational services non-regulatory guidance
Top gap closers: Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation rate gaps
State policies on homeschooling
Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how
Whole-school reform: Transforming the nation's low-performing high schools
Projections of education statistics to 2018
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
Guiding the way to higher education: Step by step to college workshops for students curriculum (middle school, early high school, late high school)
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992-2022 (State Profiles)
Social Programs that Work: What works and what doesn't work in social policy: Findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials
Gaining ground on high school graduation rates in SREB states: Milestones and guideposts
Foundation for Education Excellence
Embracing differences: Post-secondary education among Aboriginal students, students with children and students with disabilities (2005)
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009
Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions
The core components of RTI: A closer look at evidence-based core curriculum, assessment and progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
Summer Search
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Perspectives on the key K-12 legislation of 2009
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
The accountability illusion
National Center for Summer Learning
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education (Database)
Teacher turnover, tenure policies, and the distribution of teacher quality: Can high-poverty schools catch a break?
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Science bound program (for Indianapolis public school students)
Graduation Challenge Database
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students
See Forever Foundation
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet
Diplomas count 2008 (Indiana state report): School to college: Can P-16 councils ease the transition
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
The Equity Project
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
Making sense of data-driven decision making in education
Kids2College
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
More student success: A systemic solution
Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being
Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate
What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Center for Law and Social Policy
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
The challenge of scaling up educational reform: Findings and lesson from First Things First
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers
Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity
State higher education finance: FY 2004
Cultural issues related to high school reform: Deciphering the case of black males
Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid
Academic pathways to access and student success
National Association of Street Schools
Success for All Foundation
College enrollment gender gap widens for White and Hispanic students, but race and income disparities still most significant new ACE report finds
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap
Common core of data: Information on public schools and school districts in Indiana
Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education
Lumina Foundation for Education
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Multiple pathways and state policy: Toward education and training beyond high school
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
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
Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act
Public education and black male students: The 2004 state report card
All students reaching the top: Strategies for closing academic achievement gaps
The early college high school: The initiative at a glance
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
Challenging the myths: Rethinking the role of school counselors
Latino youth and the pathway to college
The graduation gap: Using promoting power to examine the number and characteristics of high schools with high and low graduation rates in the nation and in each state
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
State merit scholarship programs and racial inequality
Diversity, school, family, and community connections
The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare
Designing and financing an integrated program of college study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
The challenge and call for cultural adjustments in educating African American males: Implications for school counselors and leaders
The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap (Spanish Version)
Schools to watch
Talent Development Middle Schools
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Data proposals threaten education and civil rights accountability
Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports
Just for the kids
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; Colorado state report
Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education
Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in Their Children's Education: A Guide for Teachers
American Indian and Alaska Native students in U.S. high schools
What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
How desegregation changed us: The effects of racially mixed schools on students and society
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Middle school practices improve student achievement in high poverty schools
Latinos in secondary education
What works for Latino students
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Educational attainment in the United States: 2005
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Head Start participants, programs, families, and staff in 2005
Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
Why rural matters 2007: The realities of rural education growth
Indiana Core Transfer Library
2007 Kids Count Data Book
Putting English language learners on the educational map: The No Child Left Behind Act implemented
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
The proficiency illusion
Education in the United States: Parent primer (English Language Version)
Projections of education statistics to 2016
Starfish Initiative
Starfish Initiative: Mentoring application
Orphan Foundation of America
Are public schools really losing their "best"? Assessing the career transitions of teachers and their implications for the quality of the teacher workforce
Private K-12 schools lag far behind public schools in using federal education programs
Career plan initiative "how-to" guide
Ohio's career development program
From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Raising graduation rates in an era of high standards: Five commitments for state action
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
Comparing NCLB and the Obama administration's blueprint
The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities
Extended-day Learning Opportunities Online Resource Center
What role do school leaders play in turning around low-performing schools?
Should sixth grade be in elementary school or middle school?
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
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
YourWordsToday.org
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
Pew Hispanic Center Country of Origin Profiles
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Effects of state-mandated standardized tests on student achievement
Impact of homework on student achievement
School District Demographics System (SDDS)
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
Interim report on the evaluation of the growth model pilot project
Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports, and use
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools
The online learning imperative: A solution to three looming crises in education
Retaining teacher talent: Convergence and contradictions in teachers' perceptions of policy reform ideas
The Condition of Education 2010
Welfare reform and intergenerational mobility
Center on Instruction: Response to Intervention (RTI) resources
Response to Intervention: Possibilities for service delivery at the secondary school level
SREB/Go Alliance
Devil in the details: An analysis of state teacher dismissal laws
Understanding the common core state standards
Response to Intervention policy
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) prepare students for Algebra in grade 8?
The 6th annual AP report to the nation
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas (aggregate analysis)
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
Postsecondary success
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence