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

Private school participants in programs under the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Private school and public school district perspectives

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

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

The impact of the mortgage crisis on children

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

Reenrollment of high school dropouts in a large, urban school district

Facts for education advocates: Demographics and the racial divide in today's schools

Sizing up state standards: 2008

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

Perceptions and expectations of youth with disabilities. A special topic report of findings from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2)

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

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

Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science

America's high school graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP high school transcript study

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

Why the crisis in adolescent literacy demands a national response

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

Ready to succeed: All students prepared for college and work

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

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

Crisis or possibility? Conversations about the American high school

Federal, state, and local roles supporting alternative education

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

Dollars and sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools

Mixed messages: What state high school tests communicate about student readiness for college

State high school exit exams: A maturing reform

Some things do make a difference for youth and More things that do make a difference for youth

Bridging the widest gap: Raising the achievement of Black boys

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Rethinking high school: Inaugural graduations at New York City's new high schools

Minorities in Higher Education: 22nd Annual Status Report

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

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

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

America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future

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

Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions

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

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

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

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

Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students

RTI Action Network

Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education

One-in-five and growing fast: A profile of Hispanic public school students

What keeps good teachers in the classroom? Understanding and reducing teacher turnover

The forgotten middle: Ensuring that all students are on target for college and career readiness before high school

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

From high school to the future: The pathway to 20

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

Alternative high school initiative (AHSI)

Communities in Schools

The Equity Project

Building a college culture: Needs, goals, priniciples. and a case study

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

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood

What heppens to high school dropouts who reenroll?

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

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs

Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago

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

Private K-12 schools lag far behind public schools in using federal education programs

Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career

Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes

Quality counts 2008

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

Effective instruction: An inconspicuous strategy for dropout prevention

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

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

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

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

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

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

College admission for homeschoolers

Getting serious about high school graduation

Career and technical education reforms and comprehensive school reforms in high schools: Their impact on education outcomes for at-risk youth

Public education and black male students: The 2006 state report card

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

Financing early colleges for native youth

Expanding learning time in high schools

Minorities in higher education twenty-first annual status report (2003-2004)

Linking NAEP achievement levels to TIMSS

Part-Time Undergraduates in Postsecondary Education: 2003-04

Leaders and laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational effectiveness

Joint platform for education reform

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

The state of our nation's youth

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

Betraying the college dream: How disconnected K-12 and postsecondary education systems undermine student aspirations

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

School-to-college transitions: Challenges and prospects

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

Lesser and greater expectations: The wasted senior year and college-level study in high school

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

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

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

The silent epidemic: Perspectives of high school dropouts

A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth

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

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2006

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices

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

Finance and resource issues in high school reform

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

Supporting parent, family, and community involvement in your school

Involving families in high school and college expectations

Paying double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation

Implementing graduation counts: State progress to date

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

Students as allies in improving their schools: A report on work in progress

Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future

The on-track indicator as a predictor of high school graduation

Getting ready for college: What student engagement data can tell us

Strategies for success: Six stories of increasing college access

Pathways to college access and success

A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002

Primary progress, secondary challenge

Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence

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

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

P-16: Building a cohesive education system from preschool through postsecondary

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

Our impoverished view of education reform

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

Reforming public high schools: The greatest educational challenge

Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform

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

Head start on college: Dual enrollment strategies in New England

Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies

An action agenda for improving America's high schools

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

Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students

Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice

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

High school students at risk: The challenge of dropouts and pushouts

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

Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states

Educational attainment of people 18 years and over, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, for the 25 largest states: March 2000

Creating seamless educational transitions for urban African American and Hispanic students

Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

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

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

Learning to earn

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

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

Immigrant students, urban high schools: The challenge continues

Encouraging news for college bound foster youth

Telling the whole truth (or not) about high school graduation rates

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

Peer tutoring and mentoring services for disadvantaged secondary school students

The secondary and technical education excellence act of 2003: Overview for FY 2004 budget release

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

Hidden benefits: The impact of high school graduation on household wealth

Increasing academic rigor in high schools: Stakeholder perspectives

School and parent interaction by household language and poverty status: 2002–03

Discarding the deficit model

Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school

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

Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond

Task force on the education of Maryland’s African-American males

Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today

Buried treasure: Developing a management guide from mountains of school data

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Supporting high school students in the transition to college

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

Academic pathways, preparation, and performance: A descriptive overview of the transcripts from the high school graduating class of 2003-04

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

Dropout rates in the United States: 2004

The role of the guidance profession in a shifting education system

Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action

Big buildings, small schools: Using a small schools strategy for high school reform

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

Engaging parents in education: Lessons from five parental information and resource centers

Family involvement in middle and high school students' education

Using Rigorous Evidence to Improve Policy and Practice

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

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

Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families

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

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

Closing the expectations gap, 2008

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

Dead ends: The need for more pathways to graduation for overage, under-credited students in New York City

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

The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?

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

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022

Education at a glance 2007

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Program

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

Education beyond the rhetoric: Making "rigor" something real

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

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

Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white

When girls don't graduate, we all fail

Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college

National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI)

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

UpwardBound math-science: STEM education that works

Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools

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

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

Chasing the high school graduation rate: Getting the data we need and using it right

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

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

Federal school codes

High school literacy: A quick stats fact sheet

The forgotten choice? Rethinking magnet schools in a changing landscape

USA Funds Unlock the Future

EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics

Literacy instruction in the content areas: Getting to the core of middle and high school improvement

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

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

Examining American Indian perspectives in the Central Region on parent's involvement in education

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

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

Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers

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

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

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

Doing what works

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

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

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

The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform

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

How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents

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

Out of many, one: Common state college and career-ready standards

Transitions to adulthood for homeless adolescents: Education and Public Policy

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

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

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

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

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

Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders

The family: America's smallest school

A disturbing trend in law school diversity

Students with learning disabilities transitioning from high school to college

Are public schools really losing their "best"? Assessing the career transitions of teachers and their implications for the quality of the teacher workforce

2007 Survey of parents of college-bound freshman

Who graduates in California?

Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities

Education spending and changing revenue sources

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

State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities

Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Graduation rate watch: Making minority student success a priority

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

Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America

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

The 4th annual AP report to the nation

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

The last have become the first: Rural and small town America lead the way on desegregation

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study

Information sharing could help institutions identify and address challenges some Asian Americans and Pacific Islander students face

African American students and U.S. high schools

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

What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

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

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

Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities

A college access contract

High schools for equity: Policy supports for student learning in communities of color

Accelerated remedial math education: How institutional innovation and state policy interact

From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality

Reinventing the American high school for the twenty-first century

Career academies: Impacts on students' engagement and performance in high school

Indian students and college preparation

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

What keeps children in foster care from succeeding in school? Views of early adolescents and the adults in their lives

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

All over the map: State policies to improve the American high school

Reading to achieve: A governor's guide to adolescent literacy

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

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

Creating schools that work

P-16 Data systems: An alignment status report

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

The high school transcript study: A decade of change in curricula and achievement, 1990-2000

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

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

United States high school sophomores: A twenty-two year comparison, 1980 - 2002

Engaging students, challenging the odds

Teens and technology: Youth are leading the transition to a fully wired and mobile nation

Leaks in the postsecondary pipeline: A survey of Americans

Developing the STEM education pipeline

Connecting education standards and employment: Course-taking patterns of young workers

Academic interventions to help students meet rigorous standards: State policy options

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

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

Rules of the game: How state policy creates barriers to degree completion and impedes student success

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

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

Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense

A portrait of "Generation Next": How young people view their lives, futures and politics

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

An overview of school-based mentoring

Small schools, big results: Nebraska high school completion and postsecondary enrollment rates by size of school district

Career-related predictors of work-bound and college-bound status of adolescents in rural and nonrural areas

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

Getting honest about grad rates: How states play the numbers and students lose

Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector

High school guidance counseling

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

Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges

Ready or not: Creating a high school diploma that counts

The American diploma project: Overview of research

Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth

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

Dual enrollment: Accelerating the transition to college

Counseling and college counseling in America’s high schools

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

Closing the gap: High achievement for students of color

Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind

Locating the dropout crisis: Which high schools produce the nation’s dropouts? Where are they located? Who attends them

The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt

High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress

Debt burden: Repaying student debt

Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century

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

Estimates of the size and characteristics of the undocumented population

Beyond high school: Improving transition programs for postsecondary education

State strategies for redesigning high schools and promoting high school to college transitions

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

Educational needs index

Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty

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

Ready for college and ready for work: Same or different

Ensuring rigor in the high school curriculum: What states are doing

Community college survey of student engagement: 2005

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

ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy

Smart districts, from Voices in Urban Education

The talent development high school model: Context, components, and initial impacts on ninth-grade students' engagement and performance

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

Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education

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

Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform

Meeting five critical challenges of high school reform: Lessons from research on three reform models

Getting ready for college early: A handbook for parents of students in the middle and high school years

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America

Helping children move from bad schools to good ones

En route to the baccalaureate: Community college student outcomes

OECD Programme for international student assessment

Diversity, school, family, and community connections

Learning by degree: Real-life stories from three early collge high schools

Reframing education: The partnership strategy and public education

High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities

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

Dealing with debt: 1992-93 bachelor's degree recipients 10 years later

Toward resiliency: At-risk students who make it to college

Education counts

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Early commitment financial aid programs

NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good

Raising the bar: Policy recommendations for high school reform

The federal government and the student aid partnership

Forum guide to education indicators

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

Parental and family involvement literature review and bibliography: Exploratory report

Pathways to college network parent/family involvement and community engagement annotated bibliographies

Evaluating the effectiveness of technology in our schools

Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs use data to make decisions

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

Unfinished business: More measured approaches in standards-based reform

What counts: Defining and improving high school graduation rates

What do we know: Seeking effective math and science instruction

What we can learn from high school students

The averaged freshman graduation rate for public high schools from the common core of data: School years 2001-02 and 2002-03

Parents' reports of school practices to provide information to families: 1996-2003

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

Career planning: Students need help starting early and staying focused

Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college

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

Higher education opportunities for foster youth: A primer for policymakers

It takes more than pressure to improve failing high schools

Transforming urban schools through investments in the social capital of parents

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

Fragile futures: Risk and vulnerability among Latino high achievers

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

Help wanted: Advanced education and the changing workforce

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

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

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

High school graduation, completion, and dropout indicators: A primer and catalog

Dropping out of high school: The role of school organization and structure

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

Is access to college in jeopardy in the west? Projections of high school graduates to 2012

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education

Where have all the students gone

Public high school graduation and college readiness rates in the United States

The early college high school: The initiative at a glance

Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class

Latino youth and the pathway to college

Stalled in secondary: A look at student achievement since the No Child Left Behind act

Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree

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

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

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

Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education system

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

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

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

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

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

Pushed out or pulled up: Exit exams and dropout rates in public high schools

Education for foster children: Removing barriers to academic success

It’s all relative: The role of parents in college financing and enrollment

The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings

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

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

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

Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective

School counselors by state, 2002

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

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

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

African American achievement in America

First generation college students: A literature review

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

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

Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success

School relationships foster success for African American students

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

Vocational mentoring: An experience-based career mentoring program for high school juniors and seniors at risk of not graduating

Factors that influence high school student mentoring relationships

College on credit: How borrowers perceive their education debt

Benefits of a high school core curriculum

Improving urban student achievement through early childhood reform: What state policymakers can do

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

The path of many journeys: The benefits of higher education for native people and communities

Serving adults in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Getting there–and beyond: Building a culture of college-going in high schools

Not for the timid: Breaking down barriers, creating breakthrough high schools in Ohio

Lumina Foundation Lessons: Places - and faces - that foster student success

Latinos in secondary education

Returning to our roots: Student access

Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum (Executive Summary)

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

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

Enhancing high school reform: Lessons from site visits to four cities

High-stakes testing in PreK-12 education

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

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

The dropout crisis: Promising approaches in prevention and recovery

The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature

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

Pacific Islanders lagging behind in higher educational attainment

Making sense of data-driven decision making in education

Promoting educational success for young people in foster care

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

Data-driven high school reform: The Breaking Ranks model

Bridging the gap between high school and college

Postsecondary transitions among Navajo Indians

Charting a new course for career and technical education

American Indian student achievement in Montana public schools: Features of the achievement gap and policy prescriptions

Linking career/technical studies to broader high school reform

Advancing high school reform in the states: Policies and programs

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

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

Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations

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

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

What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice

Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools

Impact of for-profit and non-profit management on student achievement: The Philadelphia experiment

Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life

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

The changing racial and ethnic composition of U.S. public schools

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Status of education in rural America

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

Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies

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

Paying for school finance adequacy with the national average expenditure per pupil

The high schools Hispanics attend: Size and other key characteristics

The promise of dual enrollment: Assessing Ohio's Early College Access Policy

Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates

Postsecondary options and accomodations available for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities

Knocking on the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022

Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations

Every student counts: The case for graduation rate accountability

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

Teacher quality in a changing policy landscape: Improvements in the teacher pool

High school - Advanced placement

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

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

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

America's forgotten middle-skill jobs: Education and training requirements in the next decade and beyond

What do we know about the economic benefits of the GED? A synthesis of evidence from recent research

Every nine seconds in America a student becomes a dropout: The dropout problem in numbers

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

Dropout prevention

ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners

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

Closing the achievement gap: Exploring quality choices: Vouchers

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets

The cost of small high schools: A literature review

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

BoostUp.org

Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training

Counting on graduation: An agenda for state leadership

Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support

Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within

Mapping new directions: Higher education for older adults

Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students

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

The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratefication and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States

Community colleges under stress

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

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

The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality

Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda

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

Meeting the needs of significantly struggling learners in high school: A look at approaches to tiered intervention

Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education.

Reinventing the goal of an integrated society: A 21st century challenge

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

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

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

High expectations, high support

Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework

Achieving the Dream data notes: Students earning zero credits

Evolving No Child Left Behind

The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap

College.gov

Dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2006

Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

State future workforce gap summaries

Financial aid consultants and scholarship search services fact sheet

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

Examining the pre-college attributes and values of Latina/o graduates

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

Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

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

Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems

Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study

Single-sex education in the 21st Century

Measuring up 2008

Crisis prevention and response on-line clearinghouse

Bibliography: High school improvement, preparation for postsecondary education, and smaller learning communities

Flexible learning options for adult students

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

ETS Policy Notes: Adult education in America

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

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

Connecting schools, families, and communities: Stories and results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education investments

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

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

Fixing No Child Left Behind

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

Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

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

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

Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment

Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004

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

Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges, and long-range plans

The Workforce Alliance

Adult Basic Education to Community Colleges Transitions Symposium Proceedings Report

How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind

Turning around chronically low-performing schools

All Kinds of Minds

Learn and Serve America

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

The role of school counselors in serving students with disabilities

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

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

If higher education listened to me...

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

If small is not enough...The characteristics of successful small high schools in Chicago

Middle-class schools for all

Deciding on postsecondary education: Final report

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

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

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

New teacher support pays off: A return on investment for educators and kids

Black college dollars: 2007-2008 Directory of scholarships for African-American students

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools

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

Promising practices for community college developmental education

The funding gap, 2008

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

Mathematics coursetaking and achievement at the end of high school: Evidence from the education longitudinal study of 2002

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

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

Winning the Skills Race and Strengthening America’s Middle Class: An Action Agenda for Community Colleges

The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting Career and Technical Education with the College and Career Readiness Agenda

The digest of education statistics, 2007

School Strategies and the ‘College-Linking’ Process: Reconsidering the Effects of High Schools on College Enrollment

One in 100: Behind bars in America 2008

Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet

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

Using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy

Enrollment status and outcomes

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

Encouraging girls in math and science

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

The Kalamazoo Promise

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

New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention

Meeting the needs of significantly struggling learners in high school: A look at approaches to tiered intervention

Advanced mathematics and science coursetaking in the Spring high school senior classes of 1982, 1992, and 2004

The progress of education reform 2007: Dropout prevention

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

Rethinking High School: An Introduction to New York City's Experience

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

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

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

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

High school dropouts in America

Is mentoring worth the money? A benefit-cost analysis and five-year rate of return of a comprehensive mentoring program for beginning teachers

Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans

A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools

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

New directions for student support: Current state of the art

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

The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families

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

Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond

PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States

Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation and the need for new integration strategies

Remaking career and technical education for the 21st century: What role for high school programs?

Results that matter: New technology high school at a glance

High school to college and careers: Aligning state policies

The taxonomy of career development interventions that occur in America's secondary schools

Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students

Who's counted? Who's counting? Understanding high school graduation rates

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

Helping youth succeed through out of school time programs

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

Measuring what matters: Creating a longitudinal data system using data to improve student achievement

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

Selected literature on high school dropouts

Report on key practices and policies of consistently higher performing high schools

What state policymakers should know about federal higher education policy

How outreach programs are implemented affects student achivement

Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

What student engagement data tell us about college readiness

Progress of education reform 2005: Dual enrollment

A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college

Understanding high school graduation rates

Closing the expectations gap 2007: An annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and work

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

Toward ensuring a smooth transition into high school

Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation

Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events

An examination of Latina/o transfer students in California’s postsecondary institutions

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

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

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

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

A new way on school integration

Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment

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

No way out: Student loans, financial distress, and the need for policy reform

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

Mentoring high-school Latino students: Realism versus false hope

A nation online: Entering the broadband age

Access to the future: Preparing college students with disabilities for careers

Integrating grades 9 through 14: State policies to support and sustain early college high school

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

Network news: Focus on P-16 partnerships

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

From risk to opportunity: Fulfilling the educational needs of Hispanic Americans in the twenty-first century

Mentoring on the run: CSUN's response to the challenge of mentoring at a large, commuter campus

Preparing mentees for success: A program manager's guide

Making data work: A parent and community guide to collecting school data in order to improve student achievement

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

Undocumented immigrant students and access to higher education: An overview of federal and state policy

Staying on course: Standards based reform in America's schools

Low-income adults in profile: Improving lives through higher education

What works to promote postsecondary school attendance and attainment: Mentoring programs

Achieving equitable educational outcomes with all students: The institutions' roles and responsibilities

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

Understanding the impact and outcomes of secondary-postsecondary learning options

Dropout prevention programs: Right intent, wrong focus, and some suggestions on where to go from here

Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out

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

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

Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce

Latino students and the educational pipeline: Pathways to the bachelor’s degree for Latino students

Creating college opportunities for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges

How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth-grade students

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

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

College readiness begins in middle school

Public education and black male students: A state report card

Education dedicated to black males still relevant

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

Drop-outs in America

The persisting racial gap in college student graduation rates

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

The first year experience: Are we making it any better

Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

21st century skills for 21st century jobs

The real truth about low graduation rates: An evidence-based commentary

Multiple pathways and state policy: Toward education and training beyond high school

A look at immigrant youth: Prospects and promising practices

Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education

Access to the most selective private colleges by high-ability, low-income students: Are they out there?

They can't go home again: Undocumented aliens and access to U.S. higher education

Addressing student loan repayment burdens: Strengths and weaknesses of the current system

Reading between the lines: What ACT reveals about college readiness in reading

The student debt dilemma: Debt aversion as a barrier to college access

Reaching higher ground: Parental outreach programs at the postsecondary level

High schools for the new millennium

Examining college remediation trends in Indiana

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

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

A new look at the institutional component of higher education finance: A guide for evaluating performance relative to financial resources

Independent undergraduates: 1999-2000

Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges

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

The Gates effect

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

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

Eliminating complexity and inconsistency in federal financial aid programs for higher education students: Towards a more strategic approach

NDSFA: Fundamental assumptions and aims underlying the principles of federal financial aid to students

The literacy of America's college students

Dropout rates in the United States: 2001

School connectedness - strengthening health and education outcomes for teenagers

Using data to improve teacher induction programs

Interventions for helping students at risk of dropping out of school

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

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

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

Remedial education: One-third of incoming college students unprepared by K-12 schools

How to improve access to college

Pathways to school reform: Integrating constituency building and policy work

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

Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building and early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

High school coursework: Policy trends and implications for higher education

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter