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Cost of quality: Out-of-school time cost calculator
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This online calculator helps determine the costs of a variety of options for high-quality out-of-school time (OST) programs.
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This online calculator helps determine the costs of a variety of options for high-quality out-of-school time (OST) programs. With other resources on this site, it can help users make informed decisions, to enable them to plan for programming in which children flourish.
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The 2008 foundation for child development child and youth well-being index (CWI) report
EPAS® state of the nation report 2007: Mathematics
Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Making college and career readiness the mission for high schools: A guide for state policymakers
Supporting high quality career and technical education through federal and state policy
Eight elements of high school improvement: A mapping framework
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education.
The forgotten choice? Rethinking magnet schools in a changing landscape
Reviving 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
OEDb Online Education Database
OEDb's Online College Rankings 2009
US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models
2009-2010 EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide
Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness
Some perspectives from rural school districts on the No Child Left Behind Act
Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education
Chasing the high school graduation rate: Getting the data we need and using it right
Closing the graduation gap: A superintendent's guide for planning multiple pathways to graduation
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
One in 31: The long reach of American corrections
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
Out of many, one: Common state college and career-ready standards
Using early-warning data to improve graduation rates: Closing cracks in the education system
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Fixing No Child Left Behind
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
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: School, community, family connections
Center for Law and Social Policy
What do we know about the economic benefits of the GED? A synthesis of evidence from recent research
Learn and Serve America
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
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
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004
Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool
Peace Corps: Programs for graduate students
Congressional foster youth internship program
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
Voice of adult learners united to educate (VALUE)
Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers
Dual enrollment policies and practices: earning college credit in California high schools
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Loan forgivness for public service employees
Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers
The cost of small high schools: A literature review
The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratefication and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States
Crisis prevention and response on-line clearinghouse
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, priniciples. and a case study
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
Supporting a college-going culture
National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI)
College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students
Bibliography: High school improvement, preparation for postsecondary education, and smaller learning communities
The costs of failure factories in American higher education
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Education attainment levels for the states: Degree completion overview charts (by state)
The Equity Project
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning
State high school exit exams: Students with disabilities
Consortium on Chicago school research at the University of Chicago
Examining gaps in mathematics achievement among racial-ethnic groups, 1972-1992
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Preschool: America's best investment
The student to counselor ratio: Does it matter?
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
RMHC Scholarship Program
Boys and schools: Improving the health, education, and well-being of boys
Federal education budget project
Impacts of school-based career interventions on NCDG outcomes
Postsecondary options and accomodations available for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities
2008-09 EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide
Dual enrollment students in Florida and New York City: Postsecondary outcomes
Center for Native Education: Frequently asked questions and fact sheet
IBRinfo.org
Knocking on the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state and race/ethnicity 1992-2022
Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes
Middle-class schools for all
Youth with disabilities in the foster care system: Barriers to success and proposed policy solutions
National Center for Learning Disabilities
State Cards (statistical snapshots of high school data by state)
2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program
Creating a college-going culture guide
A college access contract
Tips for parents with high school teens: Countdown to college
Tips for parents with middle school teens: Countdown to college
Your college loan options: Education loans come in many shapes and sizes
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
MyChildsFuture.org
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Education Commission of the States: Database of virtual high schools
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
College Board scholarship search
Are public schools really losing their "best"? Assessing the career transitions of teachers and their implications for the quality of the teacher workforce
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
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Creating and sustaining early college high schools
No Child Left Behind: What's in it for parents (Spanish Language Version)
Using longitudianal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point achievement
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
Baltimore city's high school reform initiative: Schools, students, and outcomes
A little now for a lot later: A look at a Texas advanced placement incentive program
Mathematics coursetaking and achievement at the end of high school: Evidence from the education longitudinal study of 2002
Into the eye of the storm: Assessing the evidence on science and engineering education, quality, and workforce demand
National dropout prevention center for students with disabilities
Race, schools, and neighborhoods: Reducing barriers to achievement
Projected high school graduates
College admission for homeschoolers
Enhancing student services at Lorain County Community College: Early results from the Opening the Doors demonstration in Ohio
The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families
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
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
Knowing and being known: Personalization as a foundation for student learning
A review of the literature: Resiliency skills and dropout prevention
Evaluation of the early college high school initiative
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Teacher credentials and student achivement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Rethinking High School: An Introduction to New York City's Experience
Lessons on assessing the costs of small high schools: Evidence from Seattle and Denver
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
Working it out: Community colleges and the Workforce Investment Act
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
The right data to the right people at the right time: How interoperability helps America's students succeed
Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?
What works clearinghouse: Dropout prevention
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
Dropping out of high school and the place of career and technical education: A survival analysis of surviving high school
Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years
Educating at-risk urban African American children: The effects of school climate on motivation and academic achievement
Summer Opportunity Scholarships (SOS): A Proposal to Narrow the Skills Gap
Diplomas Count: Ready for What?
SREB Fact Book on Higher Education
New York City's middle-grade schools: Platforms for success or pathways to failure?
State and district-level support for successful transitions into high school
Managing the transition to ninth grade in a comprehensive urban high school
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
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Raising the compulsory school attendance age: The case for reform
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
The learning season: The untapped power of summer to advance student achievement
Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success
New kids on the block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
Advanced mathematics and science coursetaking in the Spring high school senior classes of 1982, 1992, and 2004
NCLB and high schools
Paying for school finance adequacy with the national average expenditure per pupil
State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
