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

J.B. Schramm and E. Kinney Zalesne, The Center for American Progress, December 2009

Public Agenda, December 2009

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

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

Jennifer Wheary and Viany Orozco, Demos, February 2010

Jennifer Ramsey, Institute for Higher Education Policy, February 2010

Public Agenda, December 2009

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

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Louis Jacobson and Christine Mokher, Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts, October 2009

Viany Orozco and Nancy K. Cauthen, Demos, October 2009

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

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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