This policy brief is a guide for state education policy leaders to use in selecting and prioritizing college- and career-ready student performance indicators. These indicators can be built into the state's accountability system through public reporting, statewide performance goals, school-level incentives, and accountability formulas used to…

A questionnaire was administered to 5,175 seniors in 101 randomly selected high schools to measure the effects of familial economic factors, proximity to higher education institutions, scholastic standing, peer values and influences, familial values and influences, impact of the secondary school guidance program, social class and sex on plans to…

Attrition at Empire State College (ECS) is calculated in terms of three types of counts: temporal, activity, and degree progress. The strategy for assessing attrition using these three quantitative techniques is discussed as are qualitative phone interviews. The attrition rate in terms of a temporal count was 28 percent. Phone interviews with 93…