Most Recent Publications

Pathway to Recovery: Implementing a Back on Track Through College Model (January 2012)
Pathways to Recovery lays out how the Back on Track Through College model, drawing on the best work in the field, can not only help recover and advance thousa... read more
Aligning Community Colleges to Their Local Labor Markets (November 2011)
The U.S. economy will emerge from the Great Recession radically transformed from what it was a generation ago. Changes are afoot affecting which occupations and... read more
Dropout Recovery is National Recovery: How Federal Policies Can Support the Spread of Back on Track Through College Pathways (November 2011)
Even in the early days of the recession, over six million young adults were both out of school and lacked a high school diploma, according to the Center for Lab... read more
College and Career Ready Graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (November 2011)
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was enacted in 1965 with the goal of providing federal resources to states and districts for compensatory services th... read more
From Remediation to Acceleration: Early Lessons from Two Philadelphia Back on Track Schools (October 2011)
Dropout recovery schools and programs today face the challenge of preparing students to not only complete high school but also succeed in postsecondary educatio... read more
Innovation at Scale: How Virginia Community Colleges Are Collaborating to Improve Developmental Education and Increase Student Success (October 2011)
Our nation can only meet its ambitious college completion goals if students who start in developmental education succeed. Virginia—like nearly every ... read more
Hidalgo Early College District Toolkit (October 2011)
As school districts nationwide seek ways to increase the college and career readiness of all their students, one district—Hidalgo, Texas—has establi... read more
Work-based Learning Toolkit: Resources from Jobs to Careers (October 2011)
This toolkit is a step-by-step guide to designing and implementing employee learning and career advancement projects for frontline workers. Created by Jobs for ... read more
What Gets Measured Gets Done: Adding College-course Completion to K-12 Accountability Systems (October 2011)
College and career readiness for all high school graduates: This is the new consensus standard for educational excellence, and more and more states are revising... read more
Scaling and Sustaining: State Progress in the Developmental Education Initiative (October 2011)
Substantive and innovative policy changes designed to help students succeed in developmental education are underway in the six states involved with the Developm... read more