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Author(s):	Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
Title:	Adult learning in focus: National and state-by-state data
Source:	http://www.cael.org/pdf/publication_pdf/State_I...
Date:	2008
Organization:	Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
Short Description:	This report is designed to provide a comprehensive look at adult learning in America at the national and state levels.
Annotation:	While many colleges and universities have entered the market for adult students, and while some corporations have encouraged participation in education among their front-line employees as a strategic investment, both federal and state policy remain largely concerned with the traditional educational pipeline. This report is designed to provide a comprehensive look at adult learning in America at the national and state levels.
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Adult Students

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Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

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

Graduate migration from Indiana's postsecondary institutions

Graduate Retention Program

What's wrong with guys?

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

Engaging students, challenging the odds

The (un)changing face of the Ivy League

Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems

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

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

Tapping America's potential: The education for innovation initiative

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

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

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

Bridge program planning guide

Leading by example

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

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

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

Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

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

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

Advanced placement report to the nation: 2007

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education

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

The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance

A call to action: Why America must innovate

Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2006

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

The funding gap 2007

The funding gap (Spanish version)

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

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

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

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

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

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

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

Rankings of working-age adult participation rates for 50 states

Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults

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

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

Lifelong lessons: Non-traditional becomes the “norm” as adults blaze new trails to college

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

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

Work-based learning and higher education: A research perspective

Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library

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

Access and persistence: Winter 2006

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

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

Closing the expectations gap: 2006

Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education

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

Postsecondary education opportunity

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

Education watch online

Tennessee P-16 policy roundtable: Summary report

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

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

The disposable worker: Living in a job-loss economy

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

Access and participation profiles

National HIRE network: Resources and assistance: Indiana

Financing lifelong learning: Potential of and problems with individual learning accounts in three countries

National Indian education study part II: The educational experiences of fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

The community college as a nexus for workforce transitions: A critical essay

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

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

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Early childhood investment yields big payoff

Just for the kids

The promise and practice of employer educational assistance programs: 2004 State of the field strategies and trends

Equality and education, A Century Foundation project

Economic diversity on campus

Recent STEM initiatives

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

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

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

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future

The future at work: Trends and implications

Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models

Supporting adult English language learners' transitions to postsecondary education

The progress of education reform 2007: Same-sex schooling

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

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

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah

Indiana department of education: Division of adult education

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

Access and achievement: Building educational and career pathways for Latinos in advanced technology

Collaborative efforts in student retention: A snapshot of best practices across the nation

Over half of low-income children live with a parent who works regularly

Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond

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

Kids Count state-level data online

OECD Programme for international student assessment

College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care

Closing the college participation gap: A national summary

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

Who goes to preschool and why does it matter?

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

Financial aid issues for students from low income families

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

Report of Rhode Island case study site visit

SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)

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

A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices

Accelerated learning options: A promising strategy for states

Indiana higher education opportunity data book

Education Trust, Inc

The promise and practice of prison programming

Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth

Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions

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

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

Correcting course: How we can restore the ideals of public higher education in a market-driven era

Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities

Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment

American youth policy forum

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

Grants for students: What they do, why they work

Update to state dual enrollment policies: Addressing access and quality

Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000

Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana

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

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Comparison of selected education data and rankings for 50 states

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

Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants

College students working: The choice nexus

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

The investment payoff: A 50 state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education.

The adult learning gap: Why states need to change their policies toward adult learners

Data sources for improving college access and success

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

Disconnected youth: Educational pathways to reconnection

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

Trends in educational equity of girls and women: 2004

Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students

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

Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy

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

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

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

TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)

Lumina Foundation for Education

Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis

Getting ahead or losing ground: Economic mobility in America

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

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

Education and economic mobility

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

Higher Education in Michigan: Overcoming Challenges to Expand Access

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Youth site

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

The real technology challenge

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

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

Career pathways: A strategy for transforming America's workforce education systems to support economic growth

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

Postsecondary Access and Success

Are private high schools better academically than public high schools?

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants: States' rights and educational opportunity

State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices

Making pre-kindergarten work for low-income working families

Families forgotten: Administration’s priorities put child care low on list

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

LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11

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

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

2007 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report

Programme for international assessment (PISA): 2006 Results

Millennials talk politics: A study of college student political engagement

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

The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education

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

Accelerated developmental education project

What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research

Opportunities in place: National assessment of the rural community college initiative

Update: State policies regarding in-state tuition for undocumented students

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

Literacy behind bars: Results from the 2003 national assessment of adult literacy prison survey

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

Championing success: A report on the progress of tribal college and university alumni

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

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

In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools

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

Indiana's occupational employment outlook to 2012

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

Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers

Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana

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

Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs

Quality counts 2007: From cradle to career: Connecting education from birth through adulthood (Indiana state report)

Nontraditional undergraduates

Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year

Educational attainment in the United States: 2005

Digest of Education Statistics

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation

New Hampshire's multi-tiered approach to dropout prevention

States' progress toward high school restructuring

Colorado Reports

Alabama education quick facts 2007

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

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

A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights

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

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

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

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

Early college high schools in Ohio: Core principles

The minds of boys

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

McNair scholar handbook

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

Remedial and developmental education at Ivy Tech

Department of Upward Bound programs: Strategic plan

Partnerships for public purposes: Engaging higher education in societal challenges of the 21st Century

Adult learners: A data and policy perspective

Driving forces on the road to re-entry

Calumet College of St. Joseph: Adult Undergraduate Accelerated Programs

University of Indianapolis: School for Adult Learning

Oakland City University: School of Adult and Extended Learning

New England Journal of Higher Education

Anderson University: ADVANCE

K-12 R&D and STEM Education Report Cards

I-STEM Resource Network

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

Learn More Indiana: Adult learners

Diverse issues in higher education

The Workforce Alliance

State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007

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

Voice of adult learners united to educate (VALUE)

National Center on Education and the Economy

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Institute for a Competitive Workforce

ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Determining Need and Investing Wisely

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

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

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

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

Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana

The economic benefits of academic and career preparation

Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care

Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate

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

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

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

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

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform

Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners

A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states

Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success

Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library

College choices for adults: Transparency by design

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

IPEDS Data Center

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

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

UpwardBound Math-Science: STEM education that works

Community colleges under stress

Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid

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

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

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

Indiana by the numbers

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

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

Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago

Raising graduation rates: A series of data briefs: Progress toward increasing national and state graduation rates

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

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

Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities

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

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

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

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

National School Lunch Program: State-level data FFY1989 to FFY2008

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

Making the dream a reality: Action steps for states to prepare all students for college and career

Ready to assemble: A model state higher education accountability system

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

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

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

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

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns

College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation

Policy on dual credit opportunities in Indiana

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

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

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

Paving the way through paid internships: A proposal to expand educational and economic opportunities for low-income college students

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

Minorities and the recession era college enrollment boom

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

Setting statewide college- and career-ready goals

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

The worst of times: Children in extreme poverty in the South and nation

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

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

Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals

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

Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act

Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana

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

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

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

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

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

Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

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

Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education

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

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

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

Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

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

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

Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007

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

A matter of degrees: Tomorrow's fastest growing jobs, and why community college graduates will get them

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

The spaces between the numbers: Getting international data on higher education straight

No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education

The changing pathways of Hispanic youth into adulthood

The productivity argument for investing in young children

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research

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

The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers

Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers

Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report

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

Foundations for success: Early implementation report

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

Are achievement gaps closing and is achievement rising for all?

Are student employment and academic success linked?

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

The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas

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

Progress and gaps in college preparation policy

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

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

Southern Education Foundation (SEF)

No accounting for fairness: Equitable education funding remains elusive in Ohio

The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment

Seamless Pathways : A Symposium on Improving Transitions From High School to College

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

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

Aboriginal peoples and post-secondary education: What educators have learned

Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys

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

The value of value-added data

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

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

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

Financial education in TRIO programs

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

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

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

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

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

The effects of public support on college attainment

Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success

Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

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

The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business

A shared agenda: Action alert for state and federal officials

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

What states can do to improve teacher effectiveness

A new diverse majority: Students of color in the South's public schools

Insuring college failure risk

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

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

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

Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education

Access and persistence: Fall 2009

Time to Completion Web Site

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

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2010 Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles

The 6th annual AP report to the nation

6th Annual AP Report to the Nation: State Reports

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

SREB Fact book bulletin: The terrible tumble of 2009: Recent recession is truly historic

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

Achieving the possible: What Americans think about the college- and career-ready agenda

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate in the nations largest metropolitan areas

Online learning: Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities

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

Schools without diversity: Education management organizations, charter schools, and the demographic stratification of the American school system

Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics

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

SREB State Data Exchange: 40 years and still counting: 2008-2009 highlights

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

National Center for Academic Transformation

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

Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California

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

Improving access to higher education by promoting saving

State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards

Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year

Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina

NAEP reading 2009 state snapshot reports

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

Global Skills for Global Completion

Digest of Education Statistics, 2009

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

Estimating the number of jobs created or saved

The quality imperative: A state guide to achieving the promise of extended learning opportunities

Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana

Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college

What does research say about 21st century skills?

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

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

A developmental perspective on college and workplace readiness

Indiana Workforce Development: Education and training options (search training programs)

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

One in 31: The long reach of American corrections

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

OEDb Online Education Database

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

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

2008 Kids Count data book: State profiles of child well-being

Promoting engagement for all students: The imperative to look within

"Careers for the future" education program

2008-2009 Alternative education programs (by Indiana county)

Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI)

Black Alliance for Educational Options

U.S. performance across international assessments of student achievement: Special supplement to The Condition of Education 2009

IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

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

College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)

Ups and downs: Does the American economy still promote upward mobility?

Pathways to economic mobility: Key indicators

Connected by 25: Financing policies and practices that support permanency for youth transitioning out of foster care

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

Campaign for High School Equity

Commission to Build a Healthier America

The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality

Health and health-related behaviors: Minnesota postsecondary student veterans

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?

US Census Bureau: Educational attainment data

Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools

Measuring and improving the effectiveness of high school teachers

Corporate investments in college readiness and access

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

Achieving college access goals: The relevance of new media in reaching first-generation and low-income teens

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

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

The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act

Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education

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

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

Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)

Indiana University Kokomo: Project Complete

Goshen College: Degree-completion programs

Marian College: Marian's Adult Programs (MAP)

HE (Higher Education) opportunity efforts in a global context

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

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

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

Ivy Tech programs: Fast track to college and double up for college

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

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act

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

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

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

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

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

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures

Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan

Earnings by attainment

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

Knocking at the college door: California state report

Education watch California: Key facts and figures

Women, minorities, and persons with disabilties in science and engineering

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

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

College is possible: A guide for undocumented students

Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options

Career planning and employment strategies for postsecondary students with disabilities

Young adults with learning disabilities and other special needs

Distance learning and adults with disabilities

The College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented AB540 Immigrant Students

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

Exploring careers

Academic interventions to help states meet rigorous standards: Policy options

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

MALDEF Federal education rights pamphlet (spanish version)

Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school

Preparing Oklahoma students for the future

Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work

Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study

Federal policy and Latinos in higher education

California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education

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

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

Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment

Alignment of high school graduation requirements and state-set college admissions requirements

Women on the rise

Returning to our roots: Student access

Educational opportunity for all?

Accelerated learning for all

Degree attainment

Child care and development block grant participation in 2005

Workers need training, not tough talk

State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements

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

Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Education as an engine for regional economic and workforce development

The state role in accelerating student growth in low-performing high schools

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

Education and public safety

Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference

Higher education accountability for student learning

The Breakthrough High School project

Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda

School Redesign Network

Lumina Foundation focus: Campus connections

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

Understanding NAEP: Inside the nation's education report card

Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007

Renewing the promise: The public universities in a transforming world

Student debt and the class of 2006

Quality counts 2008: Indiana report

The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?