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Download full textDuke-Benfield, Amy Ellen – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
Many college students, especially students from low-income backgrounds, face significant structural barriers that make it challenging to persist and complete a degree or certificate. These barriers include substantial financial challenges. Student financial aid at the federal and state levels has not kept up with rising college costs, resulting in…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Quality of Life, Barriers, Student Financial Aid
Thomas, Hannah; Jefferson, Anna – Abt Associates, 2022
The Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program provided education and occupational training to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients and other adults with low incomes. HPOG training is for healthcare occupations that pay well and may experience labor shortages or be in high demand. This report details common themes…
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Grants, Low Income Groups, Allied Health Occupations Education
Soliz, Adela; Long, Bridget Terry – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2016
Due to rising costs and declining affordability, many students have to work while attending college. The federal government takes a major role in subsidizing the wages of college students and spent over $1 billion on the Work-Study program in 2010-11 (College Board, 2011), yet little is known about how working during the school year impacts…
Descriptors: Student Employment, College Students, Work Study Programs, Federal Programs
National Assessment of Vocational Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1988
This report contains two chapters addressing two topics: (1) the rates at which students initially enroll in postsecondary vocational education, accumulate credits, and complete a certificate or degree; and (2) the state allocation of federal funds to secondary and postsecondary levels of vocational education. The first chapter presents…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Credits, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Shavelson, Richard J. – 1985
The Department of Defense Dependent Schools (DoDDS) is a unified school district operating schools in 20 foreign countries. As part of its efforts to assess the educational and social development of its students, DoDDS participated in the longitudinal study, High School and Beyond. The purpose of the present study was to describe those DoDDS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Cognitive Tests, College Bound Students
Direct linkCaspar, Emma, Ed. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2008
The purpose of "Focus" is to provide coverage of poverty-related research, events, and issues, and to acquaint a large audience with the work of the Institute for Research on Poverty by means of short essays on selected pieces of research. This issue contains the following articles: (1) The new global labor market (Richard B. Freeman);…
Descriptors: Poverty, Child Welfare, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
