By Janet E. Lieberman, Ed. in New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 63, Fall 1988. A collection of essays that provide background to joint programs between colleges and schools and describes a sample of approaches. This link to to the record on Eric. Full text PDF available to download.

Written by Mark S. Schneider for American Institutes for Research (AIR), October 2011. See this page for the Executive Summary, as well as a link to the full report, available as PDF. From the Summary, "This report focuses on the high costs of the low retention and completion rates that are far too typical of community colleges."

This page includes not only completion data, but also the 2011 national report, Time is the Enemy, with downloadable summary, tables, state profiles, and full report. In the Metrics That Matter Most section, see links for remediation enrollment figures and for remediation graduation metrics.

As posted on eLobbyist.com. This House bill requires the state to review and make recommendations on "Early College High Schools" for the state of Mississippi.

From Oregon's state website, an outline of Governor Kitzhaber's recent plan to establish the Oregon Education Investment Board (OEIB), where there were previously 2 separate bodies (one for k-12 and one for postsecondary). This focus on a "zero-to-20 system," intends to help the Governor meet his goal of "all Oregonians earn[ing] a high school diploma...prepared for college and work, and...80% of students achieve at least two years of post-secondary education or training."

By Alyson Klein in the Politics K-12 blog of Education Week, October 11 2011. The blog post outlines the recent Harkin proposal for reauthorization of ESEA/NCLB

A network of professionals from non-profit and campus-based college prep programs, university admissions and financial aid offices, and the School District of Philadelphia. The aim of this group is to increase the number of Philadelphia high school students who are college-ready, matriculate and graduate from post-secondary institutions.

Faculty page for Dr. Howard Coleman

Dr. Coleman helped participant's school monitor/benchmark progress and assist in development of a plan for improvement

Regularly updated information provided by Center on Education Policy (CEP). This state-by-state list details which states have applied (or plain to apply) for waivers to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), as announced by Education Secretary Arne Duncan in August 2011.

Published by the American Youth Policy Forum in conjunction with Gateway to College National Network and National Youth Employment Coalition.

Posted on the website eLobbyist. This bill, introduced by Assembly Member Carter, looks at joint educational programs and the enrollment priority of middle college high school students.

Posted by the website eLobbyist, this bill provided for concurrent enrollment in secondary school and community college (in California).

Authored by Clifford Adelman and published by the U.S. Department of Education (ED.gov), 2006. From the Executive Summary, the document "is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s." Both PDF and Word Doc available from this page.

"The New York Performance Standards Consortium represents 28 schools across New York State. Formed in 1997, the Consortium opposes high stakes tests arguing that "one size does not fit all." The consortium has developed their own system for performance assessment, and also offers links to research, reports and data.

From About Us, the Clearinghouse is a non-profit and "the nation's trusted source for student degree and enrollment verification." In addition to "verification reporting systems," the organization also has a research arm.

From the Overview, "Cal-PASS is an initiative that collects, analyzes and shares student data in order to track performance and improve success from elementary school through university."

One Jam participant noted that data from Cal-PASS was useful in helping them gauge their students' success post-graduation.

Presented by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, this page discusses such shared characteristics as core principles, college-wide commitment to the EC partnership, and adopting strategies that are research-based.

Written by Elisabeth Barnett, Kristen Bucceri, Claudia Hindo and Jennifer Kim. Published by National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching (NCREST), October 2011.

In The What of Proof (data) of Early College Success, this paper was cited, with special mention of page 37 (Decision 10: How Will We Know if We're Succeeding).

Built by Jobs for the Future (JFF), this toolkit helps Early Colleges organize, analyze and understand their data.

Website for Sedlacek, Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Maryland, College Park. Sedlacek has published extensively on non-cognitive indicators of college readiness, as well as other aspects of under-served populations in education.