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A System in Need of Repair: An Examination of Federal Student Aid for Postsecondary Education
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This report, released in December 2012 by the Alliance for Excellent Education, provides a brief overview of legislative changes that have altered the structure and focus of the system and turned them into a complicated web of Pell Grants, federal student loans, tuition tax credits, and campus-based aid programs that is unneccessarily convoluted and daunting for parents and students to navigate. |
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Promising Practices for Community College Student Success
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This report, issued in 2012 by the Center for Community College Student Engagement, provides a first look at the data on promising practices and describes them from four perspectives: entering students describing their earliest college experiences; students addressing their overall college experiences, faculty members providing their perceptions of student engagement, and colleges focusing on their use of the practices. |
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Back on Track through College in the Rio Grande Valley
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This report was released by first Focus in August 2012 and highlights activities being undertaken in the Rio Grande Valley region to address dropout recovery and promote psotsecondary success. |
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The Competition that Really Matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian Investments in the Next-Generation Workforce
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This report, released by the Center for American Progress on , discusses the current workforce environment in the U.S., India, and China. More specifically, it focuses on identifying best practices in education and youth/workforce development. |
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Certificates: Gateway To Gainful Employment and College Degrees
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This report, released in June 2012 by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, discusses: (1) demographic charactersitics of certificate earners; (2) labor marker outcomes for certificate holders; (3) the institutions where certificates are awarded along with the costs associated. |
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Building Effective Green Energy Programs in Community Colleges
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This report tackles the question of the reality behind the promise of "green jobs" -- the challenges and the benefits of the millions of dollars of stimulus money being spent on creating "green job" training. |
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Employers, Low-Income Young Adults, and Post-Secondary Credentials - Workforce Strategy Center (Oct. 2009)
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This report investigates a number of education and training programs involving employers in efforts to help disadvantaged young adults attain postsecondary credentials leading to career track employment. Our model programs meet four basic criteria:
1) Getting low-income youth and young adults postsecondary credentials that will allow them to enter and advance in career track employment.
2) Working with employers in industry sectors important to the region's economy.
3) Maximizing employer roles and commitment.
4) Demonstrating portability, scalability, and replicability. |
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What We Must Do to Create a System That Prepares Students for College Success
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An ever-increasing proportion of high school students in the United States today aspire to graduate from college. Yet statistics indicate that the percentage of college students receiving bachelorâ??s degrees has remained relatively constant over the past 25 years, that it now takes on average 6 years to get a four-year college degree, and that somewhere between 30 percent and 60 percent of students now require remedial education upon entry to college, depending on the type of instruction they attend. Also, over the past 25 years, SAT and ACT scores have risen only slightly in math and have been relatively constant in reading, high school grade point average has gradually risen, and the proportion of students taking college preparatory courses has grown as well. Given these statistics, what must be done to create a more aligned educational system that prepares students for college success? This paper tells you how. |
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Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges (2008)
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This paper looks at strategies for connecting high school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 24 to pathways to postsecondary credentials that have value in the labor market. It highlights examples of innovations in policy, program delivery, pedagogy in adult education, youth development and dropout recovery, and postsecondary education. This is done not only to advocate for expanded adoption of these best practices, but to seed thinking about ways these policies and practices, if better integrated and funded, can bring about more robust and successful dropout recovery and postsecondary education to address this challenge. |
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Rethinking high school: Supporting all students to be college-ready in math (2008)
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This report introduces three key program elements identified as essential to strong math programs, provides a brief introduction to the schools where the elements are employed, and profiles each school in greater depth to provide detail and context about how each element is being implemented. Program elements explored in this research are: offering high level math courses and supports, continually improving teachers' skills and math content knowledge, and using student information to drive instruction. |
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