Items tagged ‘Featured-Reports’
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Is It Still Worth Going to College?
Featured Report
A recentEconomic Letter from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examines the value of attending college by comparing annual earnings of coll... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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”... -
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... -
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... -
Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates – Fall 2007 Cohort
Betsy Prueter Celia Hartman SimsThe National Student Clearinghouse has issued a research brief looking at the six-year outcomes of students who first enrolled in postsecondary edu... -
A Profile of 2012 ACT-Tested High School Graduates: College Choice Report Part 2 Enrollment Patterns
Betsy Prueter Celia Hartman SimsACT has recently released data on 2012 high school graduates who took the ACT and enrolled in college. The report focuses on student enrollment pat... -
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... - article | December 20, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
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... - article | December 13, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
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... - article | December 13, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
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... - article | December 02, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
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... - article | November 19, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
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... - article | November 12, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
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 ... - article | November 07, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
Hamilton Project Papers
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has recently released three policy papers focused on improving college outcomes through changes i... - article | October 29, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
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... - article | October 25, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
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...