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Kerrigan, Monica Reid; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2013
Achieving the Dream (ATD) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving outcomes among community college students, especially low-income students and students of color. A central ATD strategy is to promote a "culture of evidence," in which colleges collect, analyze, and make decisions based on information about students in…
Descriptors: Data, Information Utilization, Evidence, Outcomes of Education
Hogan-Newsome, Patricia Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act required states to report graduation rates as a condition of high school accountability for receipt and use of federal Title I funds, and to set growth targets that would ensure all students graduate from high school. It also reaffirmed the long-standing national policy that graduation rates be used as the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Goal Orientation, Graduation, Educational Indicators