Using Rigorous Evidence to Improve Policy and Practice
This publication provides a summary of the major themes discussed at a conference about the use of evidence-based research as a tool for answering questions about how to improve low-performing high schools. The conference addressed three major themes: (1) What More »
Trends in Student Aid 2005
This report presents annual data on the amount of financial assistance — grants, loans, work-study, and education tax benefits — distributed to students to help them pay for postsecondary education. The College Board began this data series in 1983 to More »
Trends in Student Aid 2004
This report presents annual data on the amount of financial assistance — grants, loans, work-study, and education tax benefits — distributed to students to help them pay for postsecondary education. The College Board began this data series in 1983 to More »
Trends in College Pricing 2005
This report, based on the College Board’s Annual Survey of Colleges, provides up-to-date information on tuition and other expenses associated with attending public and private nonprofit institutions of postsecondary education in the United States. The Annual Survey is distributed to More »
Transition Matters: Community College to Bachelor's Degree
Community colleges represent a postsecondary access point for many of America’s most underserved student populations, including minorities, first-generation and low-income students. According to this report from the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, these students are more likely to be More »
The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts
This report approaches the dropout problem from a perspective that has not been much considered in past studies — that of the students themselves. While some students drop out because of significant academic challenges, most dropouts are students who could More »
The Power to Change: High Schools that Help All Students Achieve
This report examines three schools that serve mostly low-income or minority students. Two of the three schools are performing in the top tiers of their respective states; the other is one of the fastest improving high schools in its state. More »
The College Ladder: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education for Success for All Students
This report identifies, summarizes, and analyzes schools, programs, and policies that link secondary and postsecondary education to help students earn college credit or take college-level courses. Secondary-Postsecondary Learning Options (SPLOs) are schools and programs that link secondary education with two- More »
Supporting Success: Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Students from Foster Care
For foster-care youth, the road to higher education is often the road less traveled. Seven percent to 13 percent of foster-care students enroll in college; about 2 percent obtain bachelor’s degrees, compared to 24 percent of adults in the general More »
Statewide P-16 Systems
This series of essays describes how state and institutional leaders have developed and implemented strategies to help many more students become successful. But these essays are more than a collection of “best practice;” they have a point of view. The More »
