Other Report

This report by The College Board presents national, state, and Advanced Placement (AP) data for public school students. It describes trends in overall participation, participation rates of traditionally underserved student populations, achievement rates on science and math exams, and how policymakers and educators can support student success.

This policy report from the Southern Region Education Board discusses the importance of increasing students’ adolescent literacy skills. The committee that authored the report provides a set of recommendations for middle and high schools that will help achieve this goal, and in turn, help students achieve higher success in other areas as well.

This report, sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), discusses the progress of education in the United States. The authors examine the status of 49 indicators of development and trends in education, with a special focus on high-poverty schools.

This report sponsored by the Center for American Progress discusses school turnaround in failing schools. The author outlines five steps for effective school improvement within a district: understanding what each school needs; quantifying what each school gets now and how it is used; investing in the most important changes first; customizing the strategy to each school; and changing the district, not just the school.

This report sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences discusses the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores in science for 2009. The results reveal differences in students’ performance based on demographic characteristics. The scores also show differences across the country in how states compare to the national average.

The report from the America’s Promise Alliance examines high school graduation rates and gives an overview of aggregate trends in high school graduation rates as well as trends broken down by ethnicity, race and region. It highlights districts and states that have been especially successful in raising graduation rates and the steps taken to achieve that success. It also proposes next steps to take to raise graduation rates in other locations, including setting rigorous standards, hiring effective teachers, and improving parent engagement.

This report sponsored by the NGA Center for Best Practices discusses state progress in reporting a standardized graduation rate, the Compact Rate, and state efforts to improve their accountability, data systems, and data quality for state graduation rates. The report provides recommendations for further work that include promoting accurate data collection and analyses through state policies and procedures; providing guidance to districts and schools on data collection, analyses, and monitoring; and using data to inform strategies for helping more students graduate with success.

This report, published by the National High School Center, is designed to guide educators in collecting and analyzing valuable student achievement data that can help them determine if and how high school interventions for underprepared students are working to effectively prepare them for college and careers.

This report discusses the importance of early literacy in order to prepare adolescents to be college and career ready. It states that literacy crosses over into other subject areas such as science and math and problem solving skills in life. The authors suggest that linking instruction to the growing knowledge base on literacy and using current outcome data and best practices can help bridge this gap and lead to more prepared students.

This report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) examines findings from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessment of 12th graders in public and private high schools across the U.S. and reports on reading and mathematics scores and trends for that group of students. The report found that average mathematics scores were higher in 2009 than in 2005 overall, and that the overall average reading score was also higher in 2009 than in 2005.