全球智库信息集成服务系统

State, district, and school officials in K–12 education are increasingly paying attention to the postsecondary outcomes of their former students. Services such as the National Student Clearinghouse StudentTracker for High Schools provide states, districts, and schools with the capability to examine college enrollment, persistence, and completion data on students they previously served in K–12 settings. Many officials, however, are unsure of the best ways to use these data. This issue brief (1) summarizes the uses and limitations of postsecondary data in raw form, (2) describes three sophisticated ways that K–12 officials can use these data to inform K–12 policy and practice, and (3) discusses the importance of dissemination.