Education and Poverty Research

Research on High Schools and College Readiness
Research on Post Secondary Education

High Schools and College Readiness

Recruiting and Retaining Older African American and Hispanic Boys in After-School Programs: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn
Tina J. Kauh, Public/Private Ventures, June 2010

Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City’s New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
Howard S. Bloom, Saskia Levy Thompson, and Rebecca Unterman with Corinne Herlihy and Collin F. Payne , MDRC, June 2010

Multiple Pathways To Graduation: New Routes to High School Completion
Shannon Marsh and Paul Hill, Center on Reinventing Public Education, June 2010

KIDS COUNT 2010 Special Report: Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters (pdf)
Leila Fiester and Ralph Smith, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, May 2010

Helping High School Dropouts Improve Their Prospects
Dan Bloom and Ron Haskins, The Future of Children, May 2010

Close the Hidden Funding Gaps in Our Schools
Daria Hall and Natasha Ushomirsky, The Education Trust, April 2010

Closing the Expectations Gap 2010
John Kraman, Marie O'Hara and Abby Jackson, Achieve, March 2010

The Economic Benefits from Halving the Dropout Rate: A Boom to Businesses in the Nation's Largest Metropolitan Areas (pdf)
Alliance for Excellent Education, January 2010

The Promise of Proficiency: How College Proficiency Information Can Help High Schools Drive Student Success
J.B. Schramm and E. Kinney Zalesne, The Center for American Progress, December 2009

With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities about Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College
Public Agenda, December 2009

Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Improvement (Interactive Map and Report)
Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute and the Center for American Progress and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, November 2009

Math in American High Schools: The Delusion of Rigor (pdf)
Mark Schneider, American Enterprise Institute, October 2009

Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006-2007 (pdf)
Robert Stillwell, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, October 2009

Why Rural Matters 2009: The Realities of Rural Education Growth (pdf)
Rebecca Glauber, The Rural School and Community Trust, October 2009

Prioritizing the Nation's Dropout Factories (pdf)
Tara N. Tucci, Alliance for Excellent Education, September 2009

Partnering with States: JFF's College Readiness Services
Jobs for the Future, August 2009

Bringing Off-Track Youth Into the Center of High School Reform:
 Lessons and Tools from Leading Communities
Jobs for the Future, July 2009

Graduating America: Meeting the Challenge of Low Graduation-Rate High Schools
Robert Balfanz, Cheryl Almeida, Adria Steinberg, Janet Santos and Joanna Hornig Fox, Jobs for the Future, July 2009

Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century
L.M. Pinkus, ed., Alliance for Excellent Education, June 2009

The Condition of College Readiness 2009 (pdf)
ACT, 2009

From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate (pdf)
Alliance for Excellent Education, August 2008

Rigor at Risk: Reaffirming Quality in the High School Core Curriculum (pdf)
ACT, March 2007

Postsecondary Education

Shifting Gears: State Innovation to Advance Workers and the Economy in the Midwest
Julie Strawn, Joyce Foundation's Shifting Gears Initiative, July 2010

Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018
Anthony P. Carnevale, Nicole Smith and Jeff Strohl, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, June 2010

The Rising Price of Inequality: How Inadequate Grant Aid Limits College Access and Persistence
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, June 2010

A Portrait of Low-Income Young Adults in Education
Institute for Higher Education Policy, June 2010

Workforce Investment Act: Strengthening Priority of Service for Low-Income Adults through WIA Reauthorization
Neil Ridley, Center for Law and Social Policy, June 2010

Funding Career Pathways and Career Pathway Bridges: A Federal Policy Toolkit for States
Allegra Baider, Vickie Choitz, Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield, Marcie W.M. Foster, Linda Harris, Elizabeth Lower-Basch, Neil Ridley and Julie Strawn, Center for Law and Social Policy, May 2010

Terms of Engagement: Men of Color Discuss Their Experiences in Community College
Alissa Gardenhire-Crooks, Herbert Collado, Kasey Martin, Alma Castro, Thomas Brock and Genevieve Orr MDRC, March 2010

Rising to the Challenge: Hispanic College Graduation Rates as a National Priority
Andrew P. Kelly, Mark Schneider and Kevin Carey, American Enterprise Institute, March 2010

Strengthening State Economic Development Systems: A Framework for Change
John Quinterno, Working Poor Families Project, March 2010

Graduated Success: Sustainable Economic Opportunity Through One- and Two-Year Credentials
Jennifer Wheary and Viany Orozco, Demos, February 2010

Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Jennifer Ramsey, Institute for Higher Education Policy, February 2010

With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities about Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College
Public Agenda, December 2009

Adult Education for Work: Transforming Adult Education to Build a Skilled Workforce
National Center on Education and the Economy, Workforce Development Strategies Group, October 2009

Measuring Up: A Midwestern perspective on the National Report Card, 2002-2008 (pdf)
Watson Scott Swail, Sarah Jaeschke and Christopher J. Rasmussen, Educational Policy Institute and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, October 2009

Strengthening Community Colleges' Influence on Economic Mobility
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Louis Jacobson and Christine Mokher, Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts, October 2009

Work Less, Study More & Succeed: How Financial Supports Can Improve Postsecondary Success
Viany Orozco and Nancy K. Cauthen, Demos, October 2009

More Guidance, Better Results? Three-Year Effects of an Enhanced Student Services Program at Two Community Colleges
Susan Scrivener and Michael J. Weiss with Jedediah J. Teres, MDRC, August 2009

Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don't)
American Enterprise Institute, June 2009

Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Outcomes (pdf)
Michael Lawrence Collins, Jobs for the Future, June 2009

Working Learners: Educating Our Entire Workforce for Success in the 21st Century
Louis Soares,Center for American Progress, June 2009

Transforming America's Community Colleges: A Federal Policy Proposal to Expand Opportunity and Promote Economic Prosperity (pdf)
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Douglas N. Harris, Christopher Mazzeo and Gregory Kienzl, The Brookings Institution, May 2009

Promoting Economic Mobility by Increasing Postsecondary Education (pdf)
Ron Haskins, Harry Holzer and Robert Lerman, Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts, May 2009

Closing the Gap: Meeting California's Need for College Graduates (pdf)
Hans Johnson and Ria Sengupta, Public Policy Institute of California, May 2009

Community Colleges: A Route to Upward Economic Mobility (pdf)
Natalia Kolesnikova, The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, March 2009

The Other College: Retention and Completion Rates Among Two-Year College Students
Molly F. McIntosh and Cecilia Elena Rouse, Center for American Progress, February 2009

Stimulus for America's Community Colleges
Sara Goldrick-Rab and Alan Berube, The Brookings Institution, February 2009

Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarhsip Program for Low-Income Parents
Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Thomas Brock, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Lisa Barrow MDRC, January 2009

The Impact of Increases in Pell Grant Awards on College-going among Lower Income Youth
Lois Dickson Rice and David Mundel, The Brookings Institution, December 2008

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