
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

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

Civil Society;Education and Literacy;Race and Ethnicity
Analyzes the percentage of Texas public school students starting eighth grade in 1996-98 who enrolled in higher education after high school graduation and who attained a postsecondary certificate or degree within six years by race/ethnicity and gender.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Southwestern) / Texas;Global

Education and Literacy;Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Analyzes low-income students' initial enrollment in public and private four-year colleges, community colleges, and for-profit schools by gender and race/ethnicity; rates of completion and long-term financial distress by institution type; and implications.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Education and Literacy, Human Services
Updates the 2007 brief "Strengthening State Policies to Increase the Education and Skills of Low-Wage Workers"; profiles programs that improve basic, literacy, and English language skills; and outlines issues for enhancing state policy and strategy.
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

Education and Literacy;Government Reform;Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Assesses progress toward the goal of realizing 60 percent postsecondary degree attainment by 2025. Includes attainment rates by race/ethnicity, rankings by metropolitan area, and state profiles with rates by county, benchmark targets, and projections.
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