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The Next Steps: Building a Reimagined System of Student Aid
A recentpaper from the Brooking’s Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy reviews 15 reports issued out of the Gates Foundation funded Reima...
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Is College Worth It for Me? How Adult Students without Degrees Think about Going (Back) to School
Public Agenda recently released results from a national survey of adult prospective college students (defined as 18-55 year olds who do not hold an...
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The Price of College
A Background Primer No start of an academic year goes by without renewed consternation about the ever-increasing price of a college education. Alth...
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Degrees of Debt: Student Borrowing and Loan Repayment of Bachelor’s Degree Recipients 1 Year After Graduating: 1994, 2001, and 2009
A recent report from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics analyzes three cohorts worth of data from the Bacc...
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A Matter of Degrees: High-Impact Practices for Community College Student Engagement
A new report based on four national surveys from the Center for Community College Student Engagement finds that while community colleges have been ...
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Hamilton Project Papers
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has recently released three policy papers focused on improving college outcomes through changes i...
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Trends in College Pricing 2013 & Trends in Student Aid 2013
The College Board recently released its two annual reports on the price of college and student financial aid.Trends in College Pricing 2013 provide...
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Education Pays 2013: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Families
A recentreport from The College Board provides analysis on differences in earnings and employment rates of U.S. adults with various levels of educa...
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Performance Based Funding: The National Landscape
A recentreport from the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama highlights the current status of states’ work with performance-based f...
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Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2011-2012
The Council of Graduate Schools recently reported a 1.8% increase in first-time enrollment of graduate students and a 2.3% decline in total enrollm...
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Higher Education Pays: But a Lot More for Some Graduates Than for Others
A new report from College Measures, an organization that publishes state-level college performance data (e.g., completion and employment rates), sh...
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Promoting College Match for Low-Income Students: Lessons for Practitioners
A recent brief from MDRC reviews lessons learned from an assessment of College Match, an innovative advising program in Chicago designed to provide...
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What We Know About Nonacademic Student Supports
A recent report from the Community College Research Center summarizes research on nonacademic student supports such as enhanced advising where stud...
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Baccalaureate Attainment: A National View of the Postsecondary Outcomes of Students Who Transfer from Two-Year to Four-Year Institutions
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center recently released a report examining the role of community colleges in helping students earn a b...
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The Federal Pell Grant Program: Recent Growth and Policy Options
A recentreport from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides analysis for the increased costs in the Pell Grant program since the 2006-07 aca...
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Performance-Based Scholarships: What Have We Learned?
A recently released brief from MDRC shares interim findings from performance-based scholarship (PBS) demonstration sites in six states (Arizona, Ca...
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2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12): Student Financial Aid Estimates for 2011–12
The U.S. Department of Education recently released a report on how students are financing their college educations using data from its National Pos...
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Prior Learning and Competency-Based Education
A Background Primer In the last several years, policymakers and the public have begun to question the nation’s system of higher education. Skyrocke...
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Higher Education Accreditation
A Background Primer To understand higher education accreditation in the United States it is important to appreciate the values and beliefs that und...
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