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Direct linkSawhill, Isabel; Goldrick-Rab, Sara – Education Next, 2014
Ensuring college access amid rising tuition costs has hovered near the top of the nation's education agenda for years. Facing heightened concern about the student debt burden and disappointing college graduation rates, policymakers are hungry for fresh ideas. Federal Pell Grants, the primary means for subsidizing college tuition for…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Grants, Federal Aid, Educational Policy
Beaky, Lenore A. – Academe, 2010
City University of New York's (CUNY) new community college, planned almost entirely by administrators and slated to open in 2012, seems designed to shunt its student body into narrow, mostly terminal career-technical programs with the promise of an associate's degree at the end. But to what purpose? To "reimagine community college education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Download full textAdvisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 2013
The Advisory Committee was created by Congress in the "Higher Education Amendments of 1986" to be an independent and nonpartisan source of knowledge, advice, and counsel to Congress and the Secretary of Education on federal, state, and institutional postsecondary student assistance. One of the most important analytical directives in the…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Low Income Groups, College Graduates, Graduation Rate
Toutsi, Cristin; Novak, Richard – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2011
This report represents the latest State Governance Action Report (SGAR) covering current or just recently completed legislative sessions. Among the most important issues being considered are management autonomy, such as relaxed rules for purchasing, procurement, and human resources, and greater fiscal autonomy measures such as carry-over budgeting…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Educational Finance, Human Resources, State Regulation
Pfeiffer, Jay; Klein, Steven; Levesque, Karen – Online Submission, 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides several funding opportunities that can assist states in designing, developing, and implementing statewide education longitudinal data systems. These new and enhanced information systems will enable states to track student progress within and across the secondary and postsecondary education…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Education Work Relationship, Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
Lips, Dan – Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation, 2005
Baltimore City's public school system is in crisis. Academically, the school system fails on any number of measures. The city's graduation rate is barely above 50 percent and students continually lag well behind state averages on standardized tests. Adding to these problems is the school system's current fiscal crisis, created by years of fiscal…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Program Proposals
