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High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

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

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

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

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Postsecondary success

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

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

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

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

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

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

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

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

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

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

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

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

First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

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

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

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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

The evaluation of charter school impacts: Final report

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

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

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

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

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

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

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

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

PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL

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

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

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

Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems

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

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

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

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

The breaking through practice guide

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

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

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

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

Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education

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

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

Field guide for improving student success

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

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

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

Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students

Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?

Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

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

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

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

Are student employment and academic success linked?

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

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

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

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

Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion

Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

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

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

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

Growing What Works Database

Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

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

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

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

Part II: Institutional strategies, strategies to increase student success

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

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

Early intervention program and college partnerships

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

Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

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

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

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

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

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

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

Best practices: TRIO student support programs & Upward Bound

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

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

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Best practice: Indiana University Bloomington groups program

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

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

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

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

One day I will make it: A study of adult student persistence in library literacy programs

Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college

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

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

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

Complete College America

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

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

Global Skills for Global Completion

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

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

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

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

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

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

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

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

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

Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center

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

More guidance, better results? Three-year effects of an enhanced student services program at two community colleges

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

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

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

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

Summer Search

How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)

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

Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers

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

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

Creating college readiness: Profiles of 38 schools that know how

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

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

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

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

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

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

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

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

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

The college completion agenda: State policy guide

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

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

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

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

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

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

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

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

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

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

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

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

Annotated bibliography: Perspectives in postsecondary education programs and student support interventions

Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

College learning for the new global century

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

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

College success programs

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

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

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Measuring up 2006

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report

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

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction

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

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

McNair scholar handbook

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

Engaging students, challenging the odds

Nontraditional undergraduates

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

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Power tools: Designing state community college data and performance measurement systems to increase student success

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

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

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Florida: Key education facts and figures 2006

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

Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges

School Redesign Network

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

What works for Latino students

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

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

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccaluareate Achievement Program: 2002-05 facts and figures at a glance

College For Every Student

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

New England Journal of Higher Education

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

Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

The ESL logjam: Waiting times for adult ESL classes and the impact on English language learners

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

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

Reaching higher college completion (working paper)

Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement

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

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

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

The first year experience: Are we making it any better

Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation

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

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later

Identifying and implementing educational practices supported by rigorous evidence: A user friendly guide

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

Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

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

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions

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

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

Does public funding for higher education matter?

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

Schools to watch

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

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

The nature of innovation in the community college

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

2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions

Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success

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

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

Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers

With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college

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

Grantmakers for Education

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges

The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit

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

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

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

Employment experience of youths: Results from a longitudinal survey

BC AVID: Early Implementation Report -- Executive Summary

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

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

The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)

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

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

Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions

How much are college students borrowing?

Making high school students into "college material"

Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

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

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

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

Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid

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

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training

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

Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step

The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students

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

Measuring up 2008

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

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

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

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

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

It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success

A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment

Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century

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

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

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

Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

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

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

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

The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Getting started at community colleges: Reducing unplanned pregnancy and strengthening academic achievement

Rising by Degrees

Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009

BC AVID: Early implementation report

Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation

Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report

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

International trends in adult education and lifelong learning

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

Achieving dramatic school improvement: An exploratory study

Enhancing school reform through expanded learning

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

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

Project U-turn

A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants

15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention

Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates

Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning

National Center for Academic Transformation

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

Turning community college drop-outs into graduates

A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

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

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships

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

National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

The facts: Postsecondary access and success

Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative

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

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

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

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

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

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

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

Addressing the American male imperative in higher education: Implications for public and research universities

Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges

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

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions Fall 2008; graduation rates, 2002 and 2005 cohorts; and financial statistics, 2008

Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

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

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

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

FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success

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

Center for Student Opportunity

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

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

Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

The context of "choice" in college pathways

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

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

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

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

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

Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

Career development in context: Selected trends in education, economics, labor, and society

Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

TRIO Programs

Educational attainment in the United States: 2003

First generation college students: A literature review

A summary of career beginnings impact evaluation: Findings from a program for disadvantaged high school students

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

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education.

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

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

Educational needs index

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

The size and characteristics of the unauthorized migrant population in the U.S.

Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries

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

As America becomes more diverse: The impact of state higher education inequality

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

What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program

Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

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

Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

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

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

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

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

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

Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults

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

Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs

Satisfaction with TRIO programs

Project Complete

Best practices: Resource for TRIO directors

The male achievement gap in Indiana

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

Opening Doors project publications

Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions

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

Improving high-school-to-college transition through leadership and governance

Event Dropout Rates for Public School Students in grades 9-12: 2002-3 and 2003-4

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

Student African American Brotherhood

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2004

Improving educational attainment through extensive postsecondary encouragement services

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

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

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Access to success initiative

The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

The national articulation and transfer network

Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice

Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?

Beyond the open door: Increasing student success in the California community colleges

Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions

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

National Council of La Raza

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

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

Committing to student engagement: Reflections on CCSSE's first five years: 2007 findings

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

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

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

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

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

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

First in my family: A profile of first-generation college students at four-year institutions since 1971 - executive summary

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

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

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

Reading--Young children's achievement and classroom experiences

Yes, you can: A guide to establishing mentoring programs to prepare youth for college

Accelerated learning for all

Federal Student Aid (FSA)

YMCA

Asking the right questions: A judicial checklist to ensure that the educational needs of children and youth in foster care are being addressed

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

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

Lumina Foundation for Education: Accomplishments and challenges

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

Diverse issues in higher education

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

Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers

Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Breaking through: Factsheet

Good policy, good practice: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education, a guide for policymakers

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?

High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet

Encouraging girls in math and science

The Chafee Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) program: Six states' experiences

An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth

What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Community College Research Center

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness

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

Pathways to college access and success

Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04

Locked up and locked out: An educational perspective on the U.S. prison pipeline

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

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

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

National college access network

Advisory committee on student financial assistance

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

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

Increasing the preparedness of at-risk students

From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth

College completion: Additional efforts could help education with its completion goals

Data sources for improving college access and success

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers

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

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

Education and incarceration

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

Just for the kids

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

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

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

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Degree completions in areas of national need: 1996-97 to 2001-02

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college

Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs

En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

The art of student retention

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

An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college

Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

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

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

Implementing strategies to achieve successful student transitions

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

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

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

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

College InSight

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

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

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

Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling

A next social contract for the primary years of education

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

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

Toward reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from New York City's conditional cash transfer program

Addressing study error in the random assignment national evaluation of Upward Bound: Do the conclusions change?

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

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

Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run

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

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different

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

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

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

The College Completion Agenda

Vision 2020: Creating opportunity for America's next generation

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

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

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

Tiered intervention on the high school level

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

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

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue

Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge

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

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

Community College 2.0

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

The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook

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

Students who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in postsecondary education

Educational Policy Improvement Center

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

Structuring out-of-school time to improve academic achievement

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2008 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2007-08, and 12-month enrollment 2007-08

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

The value of value-added data

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

College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge

Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement

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

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

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

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

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow

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

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

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

The President's Forum

Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005

Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators

The evaluation of enhanced academic instruction in after-school programs: Findings after the first year of implementation

Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools

Gateway to College

The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution

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

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

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

Indiana by the numbers

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

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

Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009

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

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

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

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006

The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance

The future of middle-skill jobs

OEDb's Online College Rankings 2009

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

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

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

The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us

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

The 5th annual AP report to the nation

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

New measures of student success in public higher education

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

Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

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

Deciding on postsecondary education

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2007

State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory

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

Doing What Works - Research based education practices online

Flexible learning options for adult students

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

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

College access and success state data

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

Economic state of young America

For the benefit of all: Ensuring immigrant health and well-being

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

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

Indiana's vision of Response to Intervention

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

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

The productivity argument for investing in young children

Preparation for college admissions exams

Sexual orientation and outcomes in college

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

The nation's report card: 2007 At a glance

Connext System

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

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

State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?

Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students

Early-college high school: Modest experiment or national movement?

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

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

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

Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007

Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence

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

Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools

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

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

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

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

Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems

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

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

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

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

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

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

Center on Education and the Workforce

Educational attainment in the United States: 2009

The Condition of Education 2010

Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete

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

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students

Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative

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

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

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

Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time

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

Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college

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

Insuring college failure risk

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

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

Fall 2009 Census data: New student enrollment and retention at four-year and two-year institutions

The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform

A new national approach to career navigation for working learners

Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act

Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning

Effective teaching: A key to success for all high school students

Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

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

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

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

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

Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health

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

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

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

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

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

Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education

Education and the economy: An indicators report

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

Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South

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

The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college

Making good on a promise: What policymakers can do to support the educational persistence of dropouts

OECD Programme for international student assessment

What works clearinghouse

American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century

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

The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention

NDSFA: State financial aid and college access

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

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

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

Collegiate learning assessement project

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

Adult education participation in 2004-05

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

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

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Revelations and recommendations: The 2000 HSF Hispanic education study

Excelencia in education

Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities

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

Black male students at public flagship universities in the U.S.: Status, trends, and implications for policy and practice

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

Saving futures, saving dollars: The impact of education on crime reduction and earnings

Learning in the fast lane: Adult learners’ persistence and success in accelerated college programs

Access and persistence: Findings from 10 years of longitudinal research on students

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

Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success

Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals

One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

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

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

Upward Bound

Borrowers who drop out: A neglected aspect of the college student loan trend

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

The lost opportunity of senior year: Finding a better way

College persistence on the rise? Changes in 5-year degree completion and postsecondary persistence rates between 1994 and 2000

Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education

Postsecondary education opportunity

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

Education pays update 2005: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

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

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

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

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

To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

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

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Cal-SOAP

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

Gender gap grows

Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand

Who graduates in California?

The real technology challenge

Academic competitiveness grants

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

MHEC in Indiana: 2006-07

Economic mobility project

Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes

Enrollment status and outcomes

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

Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)

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

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

Economic mobility of black and white families

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report

The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings

Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data

Adult learning in focus: Individual state profiles and downloadable data

Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program

Annotated bibliography: Adult learning in focus: National and state data report

Big ideas dropout prevention strategies: Check and Connect

More student success: A systemic solution

Windows on achievement and inequality

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

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

Center for Law and Social Policy

Skills2Compete

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

Condition of education 2008

The minds of boys

What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities

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

Post-secondary education options for low-income students

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid

UA Adult Focus

Return on investment: Educational choices and demographic change in California's future

Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE): Third Biennial Report

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study

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

A synthesis of recommendations for improving U.S. science and mathematics education

What it's worth: Field of training and economic status: 2001

The benefits of racial/ethnic student groups: A psychologist explains

What works in student retention

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

Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA

Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

A state leader's action guide to 21st century skills

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas

New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

Education watch Alabama: Key education facts and figures 2006

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

Accelerated developmental education project

Community colleges and rural America: Progress and prospects

Programme for international assessment (PISA): 2006 Results

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

Retooling career and technical education

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

Frequently asked questions about college access and success

Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Workers need training, not tough talk

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

Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions

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

Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges

The family: America's smallest school

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

Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States

Are they really ready to work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce

Learning in a new key

The Breakthrough High School project

Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education

Enhancing student success in education: Summary report of the NPEC Initiative and National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success

Educational Attainment in the United States 2006

Teaching and learning across the class divide

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Boosters, brokers, and bridges: Real world ideas for college access programs

Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achievement

Literacy in everyday life: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy`

Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds

Colorado Reports

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

Distance learning and adults with disabilities

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

Indiana college completion rates 2007

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

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

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

African American students and U.S. high schools

Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education

Addressing the needs of adult learners

Strategic directions in Indiana education

Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education

GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage

Education at a glance 2007: OECD indicators

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

The state of American manhood

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

I-STEM Resource Network

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

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making rigor something "real"

National Institute for Literacy

Adult Basic Education to Community Colleges Transitions Symposium Proceedings Report

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

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Education and economic mobility

Ten years after college: Comparing the employment experiences of 1992-93 Bachelor's degree recipients with academic and career-oriented majors

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

Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes

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

The No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: A progress report

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

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

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

EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11

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

How much does the federal government spend to promote economic mobility and for whom?

Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success

State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges

Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning

Effective college transition planning for students with learning disabilities: What does the research tell us?

Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CSCORE)

The effects of students' middle-school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor's degree: How can school counselors make a difference

National Association of Street Schools

Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth

Access and persistence: Spring 2006

Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement

Merit aid and college access

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends

Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

Education and correctional populations

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Where the boys aren't: Recent trends in U.S. college enrollment patterns

Participation in adult education and lifelong learning: 2000-01

Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work

Appropriate use of high stakes testing in our schools: How should student learning and achievement be measured

Overview of education in Indiana: Preparing students for success

Student success or student non-dissatisfaction: Considering the purpose guided approach to the first year of college

Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience

Examining college remediation trends in Indiana

National inventory of academic pathways

Investing wisely in adult learning is key to state prosperity

Educational needs index state report: Indiana

GEAR UP

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs

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

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

Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes

Powerful partnerships: Independent colleges share high-impact strategies for low-income students’ success

Do grants matter?

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Just and efficient college finance

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

Lumina Foundation for Education

College Results Online

Scientifically based evaluation methods

Overcoming obstacles to preparing for college: Perspectives from a rural Upward Bound program

Baccalaureate and beyond: A descriptive summary of 1999-2000 bachelor's degree recipient

Principal indicators of student academic histories in postsecondary education: 1972-2000

At what cost? The price that working students pay for a college education

Adult persistence and success in higher education: A brief annotated bibliography of online resources

Improving lives through higher education: Campus programs and policies for low-income adults

Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success

College students working: The choice nexus

When it comes to school, girls rule

Gender gap among undergraduates could stem from wage premium for women, study finds

Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states

Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004

Understanding the impact and outcomes of secondary-postsecondary learning options

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

Educational vouchers for universal preschools

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid

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

Knowledge for practice: A training program for college access advisors

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

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

Labor force participation in formal work-related education in 2000-01

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

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

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

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

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

New faces, old patterns: Segregation in the multiracial south

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

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

Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school

The connection collection: School-family-community connections database

The literacy of America's college students

Pathways to improving practice: Data-driven pre-college outreach programs

Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices

Economic outcomes of high school completers and non-completers 8 years later

An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

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

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

Indiana educational attainment of the population 25 years and over: 1940 to 2000

Bachelor's degrees awarded to men and women in Indiana 1970 to 2004

Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers

Youth indicators 2005: Trends in the well-being of American youth

Questbridge

Reflections on college access and persistence

Tough choices or tough times: The report of the new commission on the skills of the American workforce

The condition of education 2006

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

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

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Next steps: Research and practice to advance Indian education

Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid

Learning to finish: A best practices "Wiki" sponsored by the Pew Partnership

Indiana project on academic success: Retention Bibliography

A culture of evidence: Postsecondary assessment and learning outcomes

Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation

Leadership to enhance college access and success

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

Don't leave accountability behind: A call for ESEA reauthorization

Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials

Principles for a comprehensive assessment system

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

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

The connection between health and high school dropout

State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IX - Accountability under NCLB: Final report

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

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

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

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

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

Creating jobs and supporting homeless students

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

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

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

Pathways to College Network

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

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

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

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

Time to Completion Web Site

Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2009 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2008-09, and 12-month enrollment 2008-09

Chidren's Budget 2010

The key to prosperity: The skills of the American worker

How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup