The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was a multiyear effort to improve student outcomes--particularly high school graduation and college attendance among low-income minority students--by increasing student access to effective teaching. The RAND Corporation worked…

This article explores the promises and pitfalls of using National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data to measure a variety of postsecondary outcomes. We first describe the history of the NSC, the basic structure of its data, and recent research interest in using NSC data. Second, using information from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data…

This supplemental report provides technical documentation for the full report (published separately) concerning the 63% of AISD's Class of 2013 graduates who enrolled in a postsecondary institution the year after high school, and 74% of Class of 2012 graduates persisted in college for a second year. [For the full report, see ED626498.]