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Todd R. Jones; Daniel Kreisman; Ross Rubenstein; Cynthia Searcy; Rachana Bhatt – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
For years Georgia's HOPE Scholarship program provided full tuition scholarships to high achieving students. State budgetary shortfalls reduced its generosity in 2011. Under the new rules, only students meeting more rigorous merit-based criteria would retain the original scholarship covering full tuition, now called Zell Miller, with other students…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Financial Problems, Academic Persistence, Graduation
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Bennett, Doris; McCarty, Cynthia; Carter, Shawn – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2021
A student's academic success depends on many factors, including aptitude, effort, personality traits, and social and financial situations. This analysis examines the impact on academic performance in the short-term and long-term, measured by course grade and grade point average, respectively of grit, ethnicity, gender, financial stress, and being…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, Financial Problems, Paying for College
Schiel, Jeff – ACT, Inc., 2021
For many years, ACT has studied the relationships between high school students' educational experiences and successful educational outcomes, such as college persistence and graduation. As ACT continues this work, there are opportunities to learn about students' other experiences as well, including negative ones that could hinder academic…
Descriptors: High School Students, Outcomes of Education, Academic Persistence, College Graduates