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Rebecca Montacute; Carl Cullinane – Sutton Trust, 2023
This report looks at trends since 1997, uniquely combining several data sources to give the most comprehensive view available on how patterns in access to higher education have changed in the years between 1997 and 2022. A major study of higher education trends over the past 25 years reveals persistent access gaps for disadvantaged students,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Trend Analysis, Access to Education, Higher Education
Domanico, Raymond – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2018
New York City is the nation's largest school system. Once again racial integration of schools in New York has become a hot button issue. It appears that much work needs to be done before enacted changes to middle school admissions policies in two city districts can refer to the present time period as the dawn of a new age of racial justice. Mayor…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Achievement Gap, Middle Schools, Racial Integration
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2020
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) 2020 Trustee Index is the third annual survey of governing board members regarding matters imperative to the higher education sector, as well as to the colleges, universities, and multicampus systems they hold in trust. This AGB survey, conducted in collaboration with Gallup,…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Trustees, Professional Associations, Governance
DePaoli, Jennifer – Policy Matters Ohio, 2014
Highly rated urban schools are often held up as models for lower-rated urban districts. These high-scoring urban schools, both district and charter, get results on Ohio's standardized tests that shine compared to results many schools get in districts struggling with the effects of concentrated poverty. Administrators, journalists, and policy…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Effectiveness, Standardized Tests, State Standards
Gold, Eva; Evans, Shani Adia; Haxton, Clarisse; Maluk, Holly Plastaras; Mitchell, Cecily A.; Simon, Elaine; Good, Deborah – Research for Action, 2010
This policy brief focuses on the School District of Philadelphia's high school selection process and the ways in which it reinforces and compounds inequities that already exist among the District's tiered system of selective, non-selective, and charter high schools. Focused in particular on the impact that these policies have on non-selective…
Descriptors: High Schools, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Educational Policy
Lerner, Robert; Nagai, Althea K. – 2001
The admissions policies of 47 colleges and universities were studied to consider the issue of racial and ethnic discrimination in undergraduate admissions. The Center for Equal Opportunity asked schools for data about students' application status, racial and ethnic group membership, verbal and mathematics Scholastic Assessment Test scores, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, College Admission, Equal Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1980
The effectiveness of institutional, state, and federal efforts to expand educational participation in California is examined in this third of a three-report series on equal opportunity in California postsecondary education. The purposes of this report are to: (1) review the progress made during the past five years, (2) identify the barriers to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, American Indians, College Students