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The Condition of Education 2011
U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, May 2011
A Profile of Young Workers (16–26) in Low-Income Families
Melinda M. Tamkins, James T. Bond, Kenneth Matos and Ellen Galinsky, Corporate Voices for Working Families, April 2011
Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation
Donald J. Hernandez, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, April 2011
Time Matters: Why We Need to Expand Learning Time
Isabel Owen, Center for American Progress, April 2011
State Test Score Trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and Uneven Progress in Narrowing Gaps
Nancy Kober, Naomi Chudowsky and Victor Chudowsky, Center on Education Policy, December 2010
Value Added of Teachers in High-Poverty and Lower-Poverty Schools (PDF)
Tim Sass, Jane Hannaway, Zeyu Xu, David Filio, Li Fing, CALDER National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Education Research, November 2010
Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic
Robert Balfanz, John M. Bridgeland, Laura A. Moore and Joanna Hornig Fox, Civic Enterprises, Everyone Graduates Center and America’s Promise Alliance, November 2010
Rethinking School Lunch: A planning framework – second edition
Center for Ecoliteracy, November 2010
The Rural Solution: How Community Schools Can Reinvigorate Rural Education
Doris Terry Williams, Center for American Progress, September 2010
Every Child A Graduate – Executive Summary (PDF)
The Alabama Special Commission on High School Graduation and Student Dropouts, April 2010
Diplomas Count 2010: Graduation by Numbers: Putting Data to Work for Student Success
Education Week and Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center, June 2010
Two Counties and the Difference Education Makes
Larry Lee, The Daily Yonder, March 2010
Graduated Success: Sustainable Economic Opportunity Through One- and Two-Year Credentials
Jennifer Wheary, Viany Orozco, Demos, February 2010
Facing the School Dropout Dilemma
American Psychological Association, January 2010
The Condition of Education 2009
Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
Lessons Learned from Rural Schools
Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries, Economic Development Association of Alabama, Alabama Farmers Federation Foundation, 2009
Educational Attainment in Alabama (PDF)
Center for Business and Economic Research, 2009
High School Dropouts: Alabama’s Number One Educational and Economic Problem
The Southern Education Foundation, 2007
The High Cost of High School Dropouts – What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools (PDF)
Alliance for Excellent Education, October 2007
The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School: Joblessness and Jailing for High School Dropouts and the High Cost for Taxpayers
Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin, Sheila Palma, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, October 2009
Left Behind in America – The Nation’s Dropout Crisis (PDF)
The Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, May 2009
Facts for Education Advocates: The Economic Impact of Education (PDF)
The College Board, 2009
Joshua S. Wyner, John M. Birdgeland, John J. Diiulio, Jr., Jack Kent Cook Foundation and Civic Enterprises, November 2007
Grad Nation: A Guidebook to Help Communities Tackle the Dropout Crisis
America’s Promise Alliance, February 2009
John M. Bridgeland, John J. DiIulio, Jr. Robert Balfanz, Civic Enterprises, Peter D. Hart Research Associates and America’s Promise Alliance, June 2009
The National Report Card on Higher Education, 2006
The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools
McKinsey and Company, April 2009
A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South’s Public Schools (PDF)
Steve Suitts, Southern Education Foundation, 2007