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Author(s):Johns Hopkins University
Title:The Everyone Graduates Center
Source:http://www.every1graduates.org/index.html
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Organization:The Everyone Graduates Center
Short Description:The mission of the Everyone Graduates Center is to develop and disseminate the know-how required to enable all students to graduate from high school prepared for college, career, and civic life.
Annotation:The mission of the Everyone Graduates Center is to develop and disseminate the know-how required to enable all students to graduate from high school prepared for college, career, and civic life. Through a systematic and comprehensive approach, EGC combines analysis of the causes, location, and consequences of the nation’s dropout crisis with the development of tools and models designed to keep all students on the path to high school graduation, and capacity building efforts to enable states, communities, school districts, and schools to provide all their students with the supports they need to succeed.
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Closing the achivement gap series part II: Response to intervention (RTI), basic elements, practical applications, and policy recommendations
Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)
The Kalamazoo Promise
Quality counts 2008
Top 26 colleges for Latinos
Five academic reasons why state virtual schools are important to your state
Raising achievement and graduation rates by supporting teachers in developing quality classroom instruction
Supporting ninth-grade students to achieve in high school and preparing seniors for postsecondary education and a career
Dead ends: The need for more pathways to graduation for overage, under-credited students in New York City
Evaluation of new century high schools: Profile of an initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools
'Restoring value' to the high school diploma: The rhetoric and practice of higher standards
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Creating a college-going culture guide
Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states
2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007
College admission for homeschoolers
Education Finance Council
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
Empowering students: How Georgia College early college changes student aspirations
Middle-class schools for all
National Center for Learning Disabilities
The digest of education statistics, 2007
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
Leveraging postsecondary partners to build a college-going culture: Tools for high school-postsecondary partnerships
Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math
The Workforce Alliance
National Center on Education and the Economy
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Center for Law and Social Policy
HippoCampus
All Kinds of Minds
Kids2College
RMHC Scholarship Program
Ron Brown Scholar Program
Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006
Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
US Department of Labor Youth Services: Summaries of education models
A stronger nation through higher education: How and why Americans must meet a "big goal" for college attainment
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
ASCA National standards for students
National Office for School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA)
Value of a college education (calculator)
The study of implementation in school-based preventative interventions: Theory, research, and practice
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements
Background on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
2009 NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) Reports by School
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
National Center for Summer Learning
Center on Reinventing Public Education
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
International Benchmarking Toolkit
The rapid growth and changing complexion of suburban public schools
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
What are my learning strengths?
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
Student Loan Borrower Assistance
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
Career OneStop Skills Center
Given half a chance: The Schott 50 state report on public education and black males
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Education at a glance 2008: OECD indicators
College access and success state data
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
College.gov
The economic benefits of academic and career preparation
Community colleges under stress
UpwardBound math-science: STEM education that works
Benchmarking for success: Ensuring US students receive a world-class education
Think college? Me? Now?
Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
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
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Crisis prevention and response on-line clearinghouse
Supporting a college-going culture
BoostUp.org
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Admissions in the 21st Century
Child trends: Education
Developing a college-going culture: What the research says and how to apply it
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
Moving beyond AYP: High school performance indicators