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Direct linkCarmen L. Araoz, Editor – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
The American Talent Initiative's Student Success Research Grant Program supported research studies aimed at deepening our understanding of the institutional practices and strategies that can improve student success at high-graduation-rate institutions. The findings will offer actionable recommendations for supporting lower-income students, while…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Download full textWard-Roof, Jeanine A., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2010
The 2010 edition of this monograph addresses many topics (e.g., administration of orientation programs, family involvement, student characteristics and needs, assessment, and orientation for specific student populations and institutional types) that were included in previous editions but approaches them with new information, updated data, and…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Guidelines, School Orientation, College Programs
Comings, John, Ed.; Garner, Barbara, Ed.; Smith, Christine, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bk), 2007
"Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 7" is the newest volume in a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major issues, the latest research, and the best practices in the field of adult literacy and…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Public Health, Adult Basic Education, Foreign Countries
Harnisch, Delwyn L.; And Others – 1992
This collection of readings covers critical issues related to transition of youth with disabilities from school to post-school experiences. The first paper, titled "'Cognitive Return' of Schooling for Students with Disabilities: Preliminary Findings from 'High School and Beyond'" by Delwyn L. Harnisch and Ian A. G. Wilkinson, applies…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Behavior Rating Scales, Career Choice, Cognitive Development
Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Vargas, Joel, Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed.; Miller, Marc S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Minding the Gap" argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, High Schools
Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ3), 2004
This publication presents three working papers on the inadequacies and difficulties of successful transition from high school to college. These papers are derived from The Bridge Project, a six-state study of K-16 issues. These three papers do not attempt to cover all aspects of K-16 and transition issues. Consequently, the policy implications at…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Community Colleges, Elementary Secondary Education, Transitional Programs
