Drawing on studies funded by the Lumina Foundation, the nation's largest private foundation focused solely on increasing Americans' success in higher education,

College student retention continues to be a top priority among colleges, universities, educators, federal and state legislatures, parents and students. While ac

Aimed at parents of and advocates for special needs children, explains how to develop a relationship with a school, monitor a child's progress, understand relev

The statistics are familiar: almost 50% of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years in the classroom. The challenge of recruiting and ret

This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upward of half the student