News and Knowledge

• “College-Qualified Students from Low- and Middle-Income Families Get Left Behind”  by Anthony Carnevale, Professor, Georgetown University, Michael Osheowitz, Chairman Emeritus, Edwin Gould Foundation and Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, President and CEO, Edwin Gould Foundation
  
• Statistics on the achievement gap in American education.
• Hillary Clinton introduces the COACH Act (Coaching Adolescents for College Heights):
  • Letter and Statement from Hillary Clinton 
  • Copy of U.S. Senate Bill #S3027-COACH Bill
• The Education Trust informs national and state policy debates advocating for high academic achievement for all students.
  http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust
• The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Achievement Trap: How America Is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students from Lower-Income Families.
  http://www.jkcf.org/assets/files/0000/0084/Achievement_Trap.pdf
• The Bridgespan Group. Reclaiming the American Dream: Harnessing the Transformative Effects of Higher Education.
  http://www.bridgespan.org/learningcenter/resourcedetail.aspx?id=412
• The Institute for Higher Education Policy. Promise Lost: College-Qualified Students Who Don’t Enroll in College.
  http://www.ihep.org/publications/publications-detail.cfm?id=117
• Institute for Education Sciences
  Created in 2002 by the Education Sciences Reform Act, the Institute for Education Sciences website features a wide range of education research as well as links to four specific centers focused on research, statistics, evaluation and special education.
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC database)
  Searchable database of more than 1.2 million bibliographic records from journal articles, books, conference papers and other materials about education. Includes full-text links when available.
• What Works Clearinghouse
  An initiative of the Institute for Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse offers research evidence and teacher guides for educational practices that have been proven to work.
• Education Sector
  Education Sector is a non-profit think tank “that challenges conventional thinking in education policy.” The organization’s stated mission is to promote policy and practice changes that will improve student opportunities and outcomes.
• Thomas B. Fordham Institute is a not-for-profit think tank dedicated to advancing educational excellence in America’s K–12 schools.
  http://www.edexcellence.net/template/index.cfm
• Carnevale, Anthony P. “Hitting the Books Still Pays Off”. Business Week, July 17, 2006.
  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_29/b3993105.htm
• Carnevale, Anthony P. “Discounting Education’s Value”. The Chronicle of Higher Education- The Chronicle Review . September 22, 2006.
  http://chronicle.com/article/Discounting-Educations-Value/12646/
• Carnevale, Anthony P. and Richard Fry. “Crossing the Great Divide: Can We Achieve Equity When Generation Y Goes to College?” Education Testing Services 2000.
  http://www.ecs.org/html/Document.asp?chouseid=2934
• Carnevale, Anthony P. “Education = Success: Empowering Hispanic Youth and Adults”. Education Testing Services 1999.
  http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED437444&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED437444
• Carnevale, Anthony P. and Stephen Rose. “Socioeconomic Status, Race/Ethnicity, and Selective College Admissions”. The Century Foundation 2003.
  http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=PB&pubid=252
• “No Child Gets Ahead”  by Anthony P. Carnevale, Research Professor and Director, The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
  
• "Getting—and Staying—on Track" from Philanthropy Roundtable Magazine:
  EGF President and CEO Cynthia Rivera Weissblum is featured in the article along with our partner SEO.
  http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/article.asp?article=1620