Success research
Selected research reports
Education at a Glance 2007 OECD, 2007
California Policy Options to Accelerate Latino Success in Higher Education Excelencia in Education, 2007
Achievement Trap: How America is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students from Lower-Income Families The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2007
Inventing Hispanic-Serving Institutions: The Basics Excelencia in Education, 2007
Choosing Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Closer Look at Latino Students' College Choices Excelencia in Education, 2007
More Student Success: A Systemic Solution State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2007
College Access for the Working Poor: Overcoming Burdens to Succeed in Higher Education Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2007
Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2006 National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
Beyond Access: How the First Semester Matters for Community College Students Aspirations and Persistence Policy Analysis for California Education, 2007
Do We Really Have a College Access Problem? Change Magazine, 2007
America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing our Nation's Future Educational Testing Service, 2007
Demography is not Destiny The Pell Institute, 2007
Squeeze Play: How Parents and the Public Look at Higher Education Today Public Agenda, 2007
Do Student Success Courses Actually Help Community College Students Succeed? Community College Research Center, 2007
Advanced Placement Report to the Nation (PDF) College Board, 2007
Enhancing Student Success in Education: Summary Report of the NPEC Initiative and National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success (PDF) National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, 2007
Thinking Outside the Box: Policy Strategies for Readiness, Access and Success Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2007
Opening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants (PDF) Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2007
Critical Connections: Linking states unit record systems to track student progress (PDF) Lumina Foundation, 2007
Rules of the Game: How State Policy Creates Barriers to Degree Completion and Impedes Student Success in the California Community Colleges (PDF) California State University Sacramento Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2007
Tough Choices or Tough Times (PDF) National Center on Education and the Economy, 2006
National Survey of Student Engagement 2006 Annual Report National Survey of Student Engagement, 2006
Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nations Premier Public Universities (PDF) Education Trust, 2006
Placing College Graduation Rates in Context (PDF) National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
College Rankings Reformed: The Case for a New Order in Higher Education (PDF) Education Sector, 2006
Required Reading: A Look at the Worst Publishing Tactics at Work Campaign to Reduce College Textbooks Costs, 2006
College Rankings Reformed: The Case for a New Order in Higher Education (PDF) Education Sector, 2006
A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education U.S. Department of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, 2006
En Route to the Baccalaureate: Community College Student Outcomes (PDF) American Association of Community Colleges, 2006
A Whole Nother World Students Navigating Community College MDRC, 2006
Accelerated Learning Options: Moving the Needle on Access and Success Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2006
American Higher Education: How Does It Measure Up for the 21st Century? The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
The Condition of Education 2006 National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
Ready for College and Ready for Work: Same or Different? (PDF) ACT, 2006
Assessing College-Level Learning National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
Paying for Persistence: Early Results of a Louisiana Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents Attending Community College MDRC, 2006
Strategies to Increase Student Success Educational Policy Institute, 2006
Results and Reflections Lumina Foundation, 2006
Its My Life: Postsecondary Education and Training Casey Family Programs, 2006
Claiming Common Ground: State Policymaking for Improving College Readiness and Success The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
Results that Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform (PDF) Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2006
Reading Between the Lines: What the ACT Reveals about College Readiness in Reading ACT, 2006
Inventing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIS): The Basics (PDF) Excelencia in Education, 2006
The Future of Course Redesign and the National Center for Academic Transformation: An Interview with Carol A. Twigg Innovate, 2006
The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion from High School Through College U.S. Department of Education, 2006
Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004, and Salaries of Full-Time
Instructional Faculty, 2004-05 (PDF) National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005 (PDF) The Sloan Consortium, 2005
Student Success in State Colleges and Universities American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2005
Engaging Students, Challenging the Odds (PDF) Community College Survey of Student Engagement, 2005
Data Don't Drive: Building a Practitioner-Driven Culture of Inquiry to Assess Community College Performance (PDF) Lumina Foundation, 2005
2005 White Papers The Bell Policy Center, 2005
Questions that Matter: Setting the Research Agenda on Access and Success in Postsecondary Education (PDF) Social Science Research Council, 2005
The Governance Divide: A Report on a Four-State Study on Improving College Readiness and Success The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2005
Project DEEP (Documenting Effective Educational Practice) Policy Briefs National Survey of Student Engagement, 2005
Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
Increasing Success for Underserved Students: Redesigning Introductory Courses National Center for Academic Transformation, 2005
Addressing the Needs of Under-Prepared Students in Higher Education: Does College Remediation Work? (PDF) Eric P. Bettinger, Case Western Reserve University, and Bridgett Terry Long, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2005
Dual Enrollment of High School Students at Postsecondary Institutions: 200203 (PDF) National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
Add and Subtract: Dual Enrollment as a State Strategy to Increase Postsecondary Success for Underrepresented Students (PDF) Jobs for the Future, 2005
Getting it Done: Ten Steps to a State Action Agenda (PDF) National Governors Association, 2005
State Financial Aid: Policies to Enhance Articulation and Transfer (PDF) Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2005
Accountability for Better Results: A National Imperative for Higher Education National Commission on Accountability in Higher Education, 2005
Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates: 19912002 Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2005
Paths to Persistence: An Analysis of Research on Program Effectiveness at Community Colleges Lumina Foundation, 2005
Advanced Placement Proves Gateway to College Success The College Board, 2005
Life After High School: Young People Talk about their Hopes and Prospects Public Agenda, 2005
One Step from the Finish Line: Higher College Graduation Rates are Within Our Reach (PDF) The Education Trust, 2005
Choosing to Improve: Voices from Colleges and Universities with Better Graduation Rates (PDF) The Education Trust, 2005
College Results Online The Education Trust, 2005
Latino Students and the Educational Pipeline Educational Policy Institute, 2005
2004 Research
Raising the Graduation Rates of Low-Income College Students The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2004
Federal Policy and Latinos in Higher Education Pew Hispanic Center, 2004
Latino Youth Finishing College: The Role of Selective Pathways Pew Hispanic Center, 2004
Latino Youth and the Pathway to College Pew Hispanic Center, 2004
Public Education and Black Male Students: A State Report Card (PDF) The Schott Foundation for Public Education, 2004
McCabe Fund Grantees: The 2004 Catalogue of Funded Programs, Effective Practices, and Lessons Learned to Improve Student Success and Academic Achievement (PDF) Lumina Foundation, 2004
Academic Preparation and College Success: Analyses of Indianas 2000 High School Class (PDF) Indiana Project on Academic Success, 2004
Measuring Up 2004: The National Report Card on Higher Education (PDF) National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2004
College Persistence on the Rise? Changes in 5-Year Degree Completion and Postsecondary Persistence Rates Between 1994 and 2000 National Center for Education Statistics, 2004
Powerful Partnerships: Independent Colleges Share High-impact Strategies for Low-income Students Success (PDF) Lumina Foundation, 2004
A Matter of Degrees: Improving Graduation Rates in Four-Year Colleges and Universities (PDF) Education Trust, 2004
Crisis at the Core: Preparing All Students for College and Work ACT, 2004
Refuse to Lose: Todays colleges and universities must work to foster student success (PDF) Lumina Foundation, 2004
Work-Based Learning and Higher Education (PDF) The Education Policy Institute and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, 2004
Who Graduates? Who Doesn't Urban Institute, 2004
Using Rigorous Evidence to Improve Policy and Practice (PDF) MDRC, 2004
Dropout Rates in the United States: 2001 National Center for Education Statistics, 2004
Student Retention and Graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences (PDF) The Pell Institute, 2004
Engagement by Design: 2004 Findings Community College Survey of Student Engagement, 2004
Federal Policy and Latinos in Higher Education: A Guide for Policymakers and Grantmakers Lumina Foundation and the Pew Hispanic Center, 2004
Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma that Counts The American Diploma Project, 2004
Do Graduation Tests Measure Up? A Closer Look at State High School Exit Exams The American Diploma Project, 2004
The Expectations Gap: A 50-State Review of High School Graduation Requirements Achieve Inc., 2004
Leaks in the Postsecondary Pipeline: A Survey of Americans Jobs for the Future, 2004
1998-2003 Research
Following the Mobile Student: Can We Develop the Capacity for a Comprehensive Database to Assess Student Progression? (PDF) Lumina Foundation, 2003
Converting Data into Action: Expanding the Boundaries of Institutional Improvement (PDF) National Survey of Student Engagement and Annual Report, 2003
Are College Students Satisfied? A National Analysis of Changing Expectations
(PDF) USA Group Foundation, 2000
Its All Relative: The Role of Parents in College Financing and Enrollment (PDF) Institute for Higher Education Policy and USA Group Foundation, 1998
