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Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Describes how state leaders spurred innovation to raise high school graduation and college-readiness rates through cooperative programs between school boards and community colleges, nonprofit support, and start-up grants. Discusses remaining barriers.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Southern) / North Carolina
Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Updates state-by-state profiles on progress toward raising the college attainment rate to 60 percent and improving the quality of postsecondary degrees and credentials by 2025. Provides educational attainment data by race/ethnicity and county.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States
Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Calls for policies to raise college completion rates and the portions of high school graduates eligible for state schools and of transfer students receiving bachelor's degrees. Explores issues of equity, funding, college-readiness, and remedial programs.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Outlines the Getting Past Go initiative's findings on the state policy landscape for remedial education, policy levers shaping delivery, and policies facilitating or impeding innovation aimed at raising completion rates for students in remedial courses.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States
Education and Literacy
Describes the foundation's investments in utilizing technology to develop innovative learning models and personalized educational pathways to help low-income and minority high school students graduate ready for college and obtain postsecondary degrees.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States
Education and Literacy
Outlines the need to improve the K-12 and higher education systems to close the projected skills gap in the labor force. Recommends reducing high school dropout rates and increasing community college transfer rates and graduation rates at state colleges.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Examines the role of community colleges in enhancing upward mobility. Compares family incomes of community college and four-year college students and incomes by degree attained. Recommends ways to help more students obtain degrees in high-earning fields.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Southern) / Florida
Education and Literacy
Estimates the impact of higher educational attainment on tax revenues, program expenditures and revenues for social support and insurance programs, and spending on prisons and jails; the costs of raising education levels; and the net social benefits.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
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