The high school to career & college transition workgroup is in the process of completing a literature review of recent research on the topic of career & college readiness, access and post secondary success. Throughout their work within their own networks, workgroup members often turn to a wide variety of articles, research studies and refereed journal articles to inform their practice. Many of these articles will be referenced in the literature review. The purpose of this literature review is to add empirical validity to the career and college service practices of AHSI organizations. While work on the literature review is still underway, we would like to share the following articles.

• The Perkins Act of 2006: Connecting Career and Technical Education with the College and Career Readiness Agenda, Hans Meeder for Achieve, Inc., January 2008.
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• Building a Culture of College-going in High Schools, Zoë Blumberg Corwin & William G. Tierney, Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, January 2007.
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• Toward a More Comprehensive Conception of College Readiness, David T. Conley, prepared for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, March 2007.
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• Crisis at the Core: Preparing All Students for College and Work, ACT, 2005.
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• Noncognitive Measures for Higher Education Admissions, W. E. Sedlacek, In B. McGaw, E. Baker, & P. L. Peterson (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, Third Edition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier.
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• On Equal Ground: Causes and Solutions for Lower College Completion Rates Among Black Males, Valerie Rawlston Wilson, Ph.D., The State of Black America, 2007.
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• One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008, The PEW Center on the States.
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• Report of the Commission on the Use of Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission, National Association for College Admission Counseling, September 2008.
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• Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning, John Seely Brown, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid, Educational Researcher; v18 n1, pp. 32-42, Jan-Feb 1989.
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• Student Perceptions About Their Informal Learning Experiences in a First-Year Residential Learning Community, Denise P. Domizi, Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2008, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 97-110.
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• Valuing Student Competencies: Which Ones Predict Postsecondary Educational Attainment and Earnings, and for Whom?, John Deke, Joshua Haimson, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. September 2006.
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• Straight from the Source: What Works for First-Generation College Students, Jennifer Engle, Adolfo Bermeo, and Colleen O’Brien, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, December 2006.
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