
Examines current state policies and practices for ensuring accountability and quality control of teacher education programs; proposes a framework for a redesigned system, including common standards across states; and state policy recommendations.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor;Women
Examines current policies, programs, and initiatives designed to facilitate degree completion by offering the option through employment and workforce development services. Recommends increased system alignment, funding, student supports, and flexibility.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Northeastern) / New Jersey

Education and Literacy;Nonprofits and Philanthropy;Race and Ethnicity
Outlines Lumina's work with minority-serving institutions to boost completion rates, especially among men of color, by building capacity for data collection and analysis, collective advocacy, developmental education policy and practice, and transparency.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Civil Society;Education and Literacy;Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Examines how many low-income students and students of color complete neither the courses required to apply to a four-year public university nor career technical education courses. Calls for integrated, equitable approaches to college and career readiness.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California

Education and Literacy;Race and Ethnicity
Outlines policy recommendations at the community, college, state, and federal levels for raising Latino degree attainment rates to help close equity gaps and meet the nation's attainment goals. Includes examples of current efforts and best practices.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Education and Literacy;Housing and Homelessness
Compares wages by educational attainment and examines the impact, by family income, of home equity on college enrollment, graduation, and college quality; the cost of higher education; the effects of the housing market decline; and policy implications.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Education and Literacy;Government Reform;Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Outlines models, design features, and challenges of performance funding, or linking public investment in higher education to institutional outcomes, as a way to address state budget constraints, raise attainment, and strengthen public higher education.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Outlines how external service providers can help community colleges enhance institutional redesign, use of data, student services and supports, and faculty development in order to remove barriers to completion, increase efficiency, and improve outcomes.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States