Resources

Facilitated by ESG between August 2025 and January 2026, the Accelerate ED Designathon brought together participants from community colleges, K–12 districts, intermediaries, and research organizations across Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia to address a critical question: How might...

Data can be a powerful tool to impact student outcomes; yet across K-12 districts, educators face persistent hurdles in leveraging data to improve students’ postsecondary success.

Faced with a steep demographic cliff and a growing chorus of questions about value, higher education is wrestling with a somewhat unfamiliar question: How can the college admissions process evolve from gatekeeper to gateway?

As postsecondary transfer enrollment continues to grow, a more unified approach across systems and states can help mitigate credit loss (and excess credit), so that more adults are able to attain degrees and improve their economic outcomes.

High school graduation requirements serve as both a signal of readiness and a lever for opening access and opportunity to social and economic mobility.

In an era where the majority of jobs require education or training beyond high school, the rising cost of higher education poses significant barriers for many aspiring students. Financial aid is critical for enabling more students to achieve their educational...

Public education is a major investment for states; how do they know that the investments they make in their K-12 and higher education systems are paying off and driving economic mobility for their citizens?

Every year, more than one million students graduate from high school but do not matriculate to postsecondary education. One in five graduates who have earned admission to college and intend to matriculate never show up on campus, a phenomenon known...

No student can successfully navigate the journey from high school to college to career on their own.

  When it comes to careers, who you know can be just as important as what you know. 

Attaining a credential of value is the safest bet for an individual’s long-term economic stability. Unfortunately, far too few students and families understand the full suite of robust postsecondary and career pathways that can lead to success. And much of...

How can districts better leverage data to help their students access and succeed in higher education? Since releasing the framework that introduced the “Momentum Metrics” — eight of the most predictive indicators of students’ postsecondary preparation, retention, and success —...