Research & Data Secondary School Redesign Project

In this section: A Seamless P-16 Pipeline Closing the Achievement Gap Listening to Student Voices National Data Strengthening the HS Diploma Supporting Success

• Partnerships for Student Success 
• Rethinking K-16
• The School to College Transition 
• The Pathways to College Network 
• State Merit Programs and Racial Inequality 

• All Students Reaching the Top: Strategies for Closing Academic Achievement Gaps
• Education Watch: Achievement Gap Summary Tables 
• Public Education and Black Male Students

• First in the Family: Advice About College from First-Generation Students 
• National Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University 
• Rate Your Future.org Summary Findings, National Governors Association 
• The State of Our Nation’s Youth, 2005-2006 
• Life After High School: Young People Talk About their Hopes and Prospects

• Graduation Counts: A Report of the National Governors Association Task Force on State High School Graduation Data 
• Rising to the Challenge: Are High School Graduates Prepared for College and Work 
• National Summary: Education Pipeline Data Profile
• Stalled In Secondary: A Look at Student Achievement Since the No Child Left Behind Act
• Getting Honest About Grad Rates: How States Play the Numbers and Students Lose
• NAEP 2004 Long-Term Trend Data (New)

• Addressing the Dropout Crisis
  • Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in the South, The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University 
  • One Third of a Nation: Rising Dropouts and Declining Opportunities, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
  • Locating the Dropout Crisis
  • High School Graduation, Completion, and Dropout (GCD) Indicators 
  • Who Graduates in California?
• Measuring Student Readiness
  • States Try Harder, But Gaps Persist: High School Exit Exams 2005
  • 2005 ACT National and State Scores 
  • 2005 SAT National and State Reports 
  • State High School Exit Exams: Put to the Test 
  • Multiple Measures Approaches to High School Graduation
  • Review of Other States' Approaches to Using State Assessments to Meet Graduation Requirements (NYSED)
• Rigorous Coursetaking
• Taking Stock: An Analysis of Delaware’s High School Standards and Course Requirements
• Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma That Counts
• The Expectations Gap: A Fifty State Review of High School Graduation Requirements
• Thinking K-16: A New Core Curriculum for All

• Adolescent Literacy
  • Alabama Reading Initiative
  • Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
• Advanced Placement
  • Advanced Placement Report to the Nation 2005
• Career and Technical Education
  • Remaking Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century: What Role for High School Programs?
• Distance Learning
  • Center for Children and Technology: Toward Meaningful and Sustained Online Distance Education Programs 
  • National Center for Education Studies: Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary School Students 2002-2003
• Individual Learning Plans and Career Planning
  • Kentucky Department of Education and Career Cruising Individual Learning Plan Online System – PowerPoint Simulation
  • Kuder Career Planning System
  • Kuder Career Planning System Overview – PowerPoint Simulation
  • Kuder Career Planning System in Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina – PowerPoint Simulation
• Multiple Pathways
  • National Center for Education Studies: Dual Enrollment of High School Students at Postsecondary Institutions: 2002 - 2003 
  • Latino Youth and the Pathway to College
• Reform Models
  • Making Progress Toward Graduation: Evidence from the Talent Development High School Model 
  • Using Rigor, Relevance and Relationships to Improve Student Achievement: How Some Schools Do It 
  • Works in Progress: A Report on Middle and High School Improvement Programs
• Small Schools
  • Smaller Learning Communities (list of SLC federal grantees) 
  • Big Buildings, Small Schools: Using a Small Schools Strategy for High School Reform
• Compulsory School Age Requirements 
• Breaking Ranks II