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First-Year Undergraduate Remedial Coursetaking: 1990-2000, 2003-04, 2007-08
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This report, released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in January 2013, finds a decline in the percentage of first-year undergradaute students who reported enrolling in remedial courses. Moreover, remedial course-taking rates declined among stundets of color, but they continue to be higher than those of their white peers. |
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Keeping Kids on Track in the Middle School Years: Investing in Out-of-School Time Staff and Volunteer Competencies as a Dropout Prevention Strategy
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This report, released by the National Human Services Assembly in January 2013, discusses solutions to problems known as "dropping out" and "disconnected youth." The brief makes the case for a specific evidence-based strategy: ensruing that adults who serve middle schoolder have the competencies needed to deliver highly effective out-of-school time (OST) services. Three leading practices are highlighted: training and development specific with this age group and its development stages, aligning talent development with quality improvement, and investing in OST managers' competencies. |
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Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009-10 (First Glance)
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This report presents the number of high school completers and the dropout data for grades 9-12 for public schools in school year 2009-10 |
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Non-Traditional Student and Single Parent Accessibility Self-Assessment for Colleges and Universities
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This new self-assessment
tool by Women Employed allows colleges and universities to evaluate whether
internal policies and programs are sensitive to the needs of non-traditional
and parenting students, providing them with the support they need to complete their
certificate or degree program.
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Work-Based Learning Exemplars
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This report, released by the National Academy Foundation in January 2013, focuses on
internships that NAF, a â??network of career-themed academies that open doors for
underserved high school students to viable careers,â?Ì studied to identify best
practices in work-based learning. |
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Financial Aid Reform for the 21st Century Student
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This report, released by the Institute for Higher Education Policy in January 2013, analyzes the current federal financial aid system, its evolution, and lays out a set of guiding principles in the reimagining of financial aid design and delivery. |
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A System in Need of Repair: An Examination of Federal Student Aid for Postsecondary Education
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This report, released in December 2012 by the Alliance for Excellent Education, provides a brief overview of legislative changes that have altered the structure and focus of the system and turned them into a complicated web of Pell Grants, federal student loans, tuition tax credits, and campus-based aid programs that is unneccessarily convoluted and daunting for parents and students to navigate. |
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Promising Practices for Community College Student Success
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This report, issued in 2012 by the Center for Community College Student Engagement, provides a first look at the data on promising practices and describes them from four perspectives: entering students describing their earliest college experiences; students addressing their overall college experiences, faculty members providing their perceptions of student engagement, and colleges focusing on their use of the practices. |
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Catching Up to College and Career Readiness - ACT Report
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This report, released by ACT in December 2012, finds that narrowing performance gaps for low-income studetns and students of color requires prevention interventions over remediation. In an effort to determine at what point in a student's education he or she is most able to catch up to grade-level standards, teh ACT team analyzes test scores of students between 4th and 8th grade and those between 8th and 12th grade. |
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Hawaii Career Ready Study 2012 Update
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This report, developed by Storyline Consulting, illustrates how the Hawaii State Department of Education's new K-12 Common Core State Standards align with Hawaii employers' expeectations for high quality employees. It also updates qualitative and quantitative infomration about employer neews in a more constricted economy. |
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