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1. AllianceBernstein Investments. 2006. Failing grades? American families and their college savings efforts.
According to a recent survey from AllianceBernstein Investments of parents with household incomes of $50,000 or more, most parents have a good idea about the cost of college, but unrealistic expectations regarding the availability of financial aid, scholarships, and grants. 95% of these parents intend to pay at least some of their children's college expenses, but only 27% felt they were very likely to reach their college savings goal.
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2. American Council on Education. 2007. Guide for parents: Ten steps to prepare your child for college.
These steps cover a plan for affording college tuition and encouraging the development of young students.
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3. American Council on Education. 2007. Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs.
This site offers an introduction to financial aid programs for postsecondary education.
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4. Annie E. Casey Foundation. 2007. Connecting schools, families, and communities: Stories and results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education investments.
This report examines a group of organizations that work in partnership with schools, from a single neighborhood community school to a network of school-based community centers stretching across New York City and other communities around the country.
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5. Barton, P., and Coley, R. 2007. The family: America's smallest school.
This report follows a 1992 report of the same title, which reviews family characteristics and home conditions that make a significant difference in children's cognitive development and school achievement.
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6. Bergstrom, A., Cleary, L., and Peacock, T. 2003. The seventh generation: Native students speak about finding the good path.
The authors interviewed 120 American Indian, Alaska Native, and First Nations youth from across N. America who shared their challenging life experiences and stories of success and failure.
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7. Bhargava, A., Frankenberg, E., and Le, C. 2008. Still looking to the future: Voluntary K-12 student integration: A manual for parents, educators, and advocates.
In 2005, The Civil Rights Project issued the first edition of this Manual, entitled Looking to the Future: Voluntary K-12 School Integration. This second edition of the Manual is designed to provide new information, following the Court’s ruling, on what parents, students, community activists, school board members, administrators, and attorneys—can and should do to promote diversity and avoid racial isolation in schools.
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8. Bridgeland, J., Dilulio, J., and Wulsin, S. 2008. Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention.
This report presents original and secondary research that shows the ability of service-learning to address some of the principle causes of dropping out. It highlights findings from a nationally representative survey of 807 high school students, including 151 at-risk students, who share their views of service-learning.
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9. Bridges to Success. 2006. Bridges to success.
A project of the United Way of Central Indiana, Bridges to Success creates successful students in the Indianapolis Public School system by bringing together families, schools, and social service and healthcare providers to turn schools into resource-rich hubs of their communities.
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10. Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). 2007. Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success.
This issue brief focuses on the special needs of teenage parents and their children and how services available through Early Head Start programs can support them.
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11. College Board. Not Dated. Where the scholarships are: How to develop a scholarship strategy.
This website offers parents and students some strategies to locate scholarships for college.
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12. College Board. Not Dated. How to apply for a scholarship: The money is there, but you have to ask for it.
This website offers ten tips to parents or students when applying for scholarships.
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13. College Board. Not Dated. Can you spot a scholarship scam? Be a smart consumer.
This website offers several warning signs of a scholarship scam.
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14. College is Possible. 2005. College is possible.
College Is Possible is the American Council on Education's K-16 youth development program that motivates middle- and high school students from underserved communities to seek a college education.
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15. EdFund. 2007. Fund Your Future: Counselors' Guide.
This resource is a workbook for counselors about financial aid. Two different versions are available: one is specific to California and the other takes a national perspective.
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16. Florida Department of Education. Not Dated. Parent primer on career exploration.
This primer is designed to assist parents in their children's career development.
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17. Gasbara, P. and Johnson, J. 2008. A matter of trust: Ten key insights from recent public opinion research on attitudes about education among Hispanic parents.
A Matter of Trust: Ten Key Insights from Recent Public Opinion Research on Attitudes About Education Among Hispanic Parents, Students and Young Adults, recently released by Public Agenda, reports that Hispanic parents place a high value on going to college as necessary for success in the workforce, while documenting the extent to which they perceive substantial financial and other barriers to college.
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18. Harvard Family Research Project. 2006. Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school.
Provides information about how to engage families in after school programs, and offers a research base for why family engagement matters.
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19. Institute for education and social policy. 2003. Parent power and urban school reform: The story of Mothers on the Move.
This case study of Mothers on the Move analyzes efforts to improve schooling outcomes in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx.
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20. Institute of Education Sciences (IES). 2006. School and parent interaction by household language and poverty status: 2002–03.
This Issue Brief describes school-to-home communication practices and opportunities for parent involvement at school as reported by parents from both English- and Spanish-speaking households during the 2002–03 school year.
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21. Johns Hopkins University. 2007. Talent Development High Schools.
The Talent Development High School is a comprehensive reform model for large high schools facing serious problems with student attendance, discipline, achievement scores, and dropout rates.
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22. Kennedy, B., Oliverez, P., and Tierney, W. 2007. Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events.
This discussion provides insight into the considerations that individuals and organizations ought to make as they endeavor to provide financial aid information and services to high school students and their families.
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23. Lippman, L., Guzman, L., Dombrowski, J., Kinukawa, K., Shwalb, R., and Tice, P . 2008. Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report.
This report uses data from the 2003 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) Parent and Family Involvement Survey (PFI) to examine the characteristics associated with the educational expectations parents had for their children and the postsecondary education planning practices families and schools engaged in.
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24. National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools. 2003. Diversity, school, family, and community connections.
This report addresses diversity as it relates to student achievement and school, family, and community connections among minority and low-income populations.
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25. National Center for Family Literacy. National Center for Family Literacy.
More than 1 million families throughout the country have made positive educational and economic gains as a result of NCFL’s work, which includes training more than 150,000 teachers and thousands of volunteers.
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26. Rockville, W. 2003. National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years.
This paper describes the programs offered by GEAR UP.
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27. Sallie Mae. 2008. 2007 Survey of parents of college-bound freshman.
These key findings from Sallie Mae's 2007 Survey of Parents of College-bound Freshman indicate that parents—particularly at lower-income levels— all too often begin considering ways to pay for college late in the game, and often consider college to be unaffordable.
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28. State of California. Not Dated. GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage.
The California GEAR UP Resourcs Clearinghouse provides information to help educators improve effectiveness in promoting a college-going culture at their schools, and to assist parents in planning for their children's postsecondary education.
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29. Verdugo, R. 2006. A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect.
This report explores history, demographics, and key education issues for Hispanics, including innovative classroom strategies that research demostrates are effective with Hispanic students, professional development for educators, early childhood and postsecondary education, and immigration/migrant education/English Language Learner politics.
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30. W.K. Kellogg Foundation. 2007. Enlace: Engaging Latino communities for education.
ENLACE is a multiyear initiative to strengthen the educational pipeline and increase opportunities for Latinos to enter and complete college.
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31. YMCA. 2004. Building strong families 2004.
This report examines family strengths, challenges, and resources, focusing on African American and Latino/Latina parents in the United States.
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32. Zarate, M. 2007. Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations.
Motivated by growing national interest in parental involvement and the lack of research on Latino perceptions on the issue, the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) examined what constitutes parental involvement for schools, Latino students, and Latino parents.
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