Achieve, Inc.
Closing the Expectations Gap 2008, February 2008
This survey updates the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and careers.

Achieve, Inc.
Rising to the Challenge: Are High School Graduates Prepared for College and Work?, February 2005
In this survey, high school graduates (college bound and not), college professors and employers reported that high school graduates are not prepared for college or work, did not feel challenged in high school, and would have worked harder if more had been expected of them. Achieve worked with Peter D. Hart Research Associates to poll 1,487 students, 300 college professors and 400 employers.

National Center for Education Statistics
The Condition of Education website
This website is an integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000–2006. It offers data on public and private enrollment in elementary/secondary education; projections of undergraduate enrollment; racial/ethnic distribution of public school students; student achievement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading, mathematics, and science; adult literacy; status dropout rates; immediate transition to college; school violence and safety; educational attainment; parental choice of schools; expenditures for elementary and secondary education, and federal grants and loans to undergraduate students.