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The 2013 Tuition Discounting Study
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The tuition discount rate (institutional grant dollars as a share of gross tuition and fee revenue) for first year students at private, non-profit,...
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Snapshot Report: Postsecondary Student Mobility Rate: 2011-2013
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A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center examined student mobility rates from 2011-2013. The student-mobility rate is t...
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Staying on Target for College
How Innovation Can Improve the Pipeline to Higher Education
Many prospective students, while qualified and prepared for college, often do not know how to navigate the deadlines and paperwork requirements nec...
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Freshman Year Financial Aid Nudges
An Experiment to Increase FAFSA Renewal and College Persistence
A recent paper from EdPolicy Works at The University of Virginia reports on the results of low-touch interventions to increase FAFSA renewal. Resea...
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Access to what and for whom? A closer look at federal Parent PLUS loans
A recentreport from AEI considers the federal Parent PLUS loan program: the types of institutions that benefit from the program, the types of famil...
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
“When one professor can teach 50,000 people, it alters the economics of education.” -Andrew Ng, Coursera Historical Context Massive Open Online Cou...
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Is It Still Worth Going to College?
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A recentEconomic Letter from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examines the value of attending college by comparing annual earnings of coll...
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What We Know About Accelerated Developmental Education
A recentreport from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) examined accelerated developmental education at four community colleges to compare...
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The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2013
The annual Freshmen survey, a report from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA, recently released findings based on survey respon...
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The Employer Potential of MOOCs
A recent report from RTI International and Duke University shows results from an online survey of 398 North Carolina employers regarding their know...
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The Graduate Student Debt Review: The State of Graduate Student Borrowing
A recent policy brief from the New America Foundation reports that the largest overall changes in student borrowing are at the graduate student lev...
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Sharpening Our Focus on Learning: The Rise of Competency-Based Approaches to Degree Completion
A recent paper from the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment examines competency-based education (CBE) in the United States. CBE cre...
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Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates – Fall 2007 Cohort PART TWO
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released its second annual report on student attainment rates for students who first enrolle...
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How Full-Time are “Full-Time” Students
Complete College America has released a policy brief reporting the results of a survey looking at enrollment patters of “full-time” and “part-time”...
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STEM Attrition: College Students’ Paths into and out of STEM Fields
The National Center for Education Statistics has released a study looking at undergraduate student attrition in the STEM fields (science, technolog...
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NPSAS Price Estimates for Attending Postsecondary Education: First Look
Using data from the 2011-2012 National Postsecondary Study Aid Study (NPSAS:12), the National Center for Education Statistics has released a report...
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Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates – Fall 2007 Cohort
The National Student Clearinghouse has issued a research brief looking at the six-year outcomes of students who first enrolled in postsecondary edu...
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Postsecondary Institution Ratings System
New America submitted official comments to the U.S. Department of Education on the Department's planned Postsecondary Institution Ratings System. O...
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A Profile of 2012 ACT-Tested High School Graduates: College Choice Report Part 2 Enrollment Patterns
ACT has recently released data on 2012 high school graduates who took the ACT and enrolled in college. The report focuses on student enrollment pat...
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Time for the U.S. to Reskill? What the Survey of Adult Skills Says
According to a recentreport from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it is more common to find adults with low level...
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Lingerers in the Community College
A recentreport from the Community College Research Center examines data on first-time college students at nine community colleges including demogra...
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Snapshot Report: Degree Attainment
According to a recentreport from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, attainment of science and engineering (S&E) degrees has increa...