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Please Note: all archives issues of Spotlight are in PDF format.

• Spotlight, Issue #25
• Spotlight, Issue #24
• Spotlight, Issue #23
• Spotlight, Issue #22
• Spotlight, Issue #21
• Spotlight, Issue #20
• Spotlight, Issue #19
• Spotlight, Issue #17
• Spotlight, Issue #16
• Spotlight, Issue #15
• Spotlight, Issue #13
• Spotlight, Issue #12
• Spotlight, Issue #11
• Spotlight, Issue #10

The Achievement Gap

• The Black-White College Literacy Gap
• Internet Literacy Skills-- helping disadvantaged students gain skills.
• Digital Divide Still Separates Students
• The Aspirations-Attainment Gap--Public high schools weakest link in education?
• Why The Achievement Gap Refuses to Close
• Minority Gaps and Gains
• Improving High School Student Achievement
• State-by-State Look at Achievement Patterns
• Overhauling the U.S. Education System
• Highly Qualified Teachers not Working with High Needs Students
• Transforming High School for all Youth
• Strategies for Teachers

Career and Technical Education

• Teens Want Integrated Academic and Career Training
• US Cuts Tech Ed Funding
• More Females Enrolling in Vocational School
• High School Reform, Career and Technical Education
• Results from a National Study of Mathematics in Career and Technical Education
• Career and Technical Ed May be an Answer to the Dropout Crisis

Higher education

• Policy Choices Can Restrict College Opportunity
• Promoting Success at Community College
• Achieving the Dream--A call to change policy at nation's community colleges
• The Role of Community Colleges in the State Adult Education Systems
• Improving Student Success at Community College
• Community College and the New Economy
• Breaking Through Initiative
• Improving Success at Community College
• Diminishing Equity in Public Universities?
• Success on the Community College Pathway (PDF)
• Using Data to Improve Student Success at Community College (28 pages, PDF)
• Defending the Community College Equity Agenda

Gender and Career

• 10 Industries that Women Rule
• Not Just a Man's Job: More Women Move into Fields Traditionally Dominated by Men

• Pros and Cons of NonTraditional Careers

• Women in Technology

• 100 Hispanic Women Opens Albany Chapter
• Why are Women Staying Home?
• More Women Needed to Fill Science-Related Jobs
• Women Are the Worl'd Most Under-Utilized Resource
• The Wage Gap Still Persists
• Women in the Workforce: a search for solid ground
• Men Still More Likely to Be Promoted
• Child Care Needed to Help Lower-Income Women Stay on the Job
• Local Women Discusses Her to Descision to Become an Automotive Technician
• Female Accounts from the Capital Region Discuss What its Like to Work in the Field

Gender and Education

• Achieving Equitable Education With All Students ,institutional responsibilities
• Gender the determining factor in admissions decisions?
• The Boy Crisis
• The Myth of the Boy Crisis
• The Truth About the Boy Crisis
• Single-Sex Education--Improvement or Setback?
• The Gender Gap--Has it Closed?
• Gender Diversity Stalled in College Majors
• Root Causes for Nontraditional Participation
• A Review of Single-Sex Education

School-to-Career

• How State Policy Could Support New Schools
• The Importance of Data Systems--the link between secondary and postsecondary education.
• How to Prepare High School Students for Tomorrow's Opportunities
• The Road to Good Jobs
• Young People Entering Workforce Unprepared

Science, Mathematics, Technology & Education

• Teens want integrated academic and career counseling
• The Quiet Crisis--Nation falling short in producing scientific and technical talent
• How to Produce More Math and Science Teachers?
• Digital Resources to Enhance STEM Teaching

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