Posts Tagged ‘graduation rates’
DC Shuttle: Bill Would Require In-State Tuition for all Vets at Public Campuses Regardless of Residency
by The New England Council
January 28, 2013
In-state tuition for veterans. On Tuesday, House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chair Jeff Miller (R-FL) and Ranking Member Michael Michaud (D-ME) introduced the GI Bill Tuition Fairness Act (H.R. 357) in the House of Representatives. The bill would require public universities to charge in-state tuition to veterans in order to qualify to receive veterans' education benefits. The ...
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Doing Good and Doing Well: Performance-Based Funding in Higher Ed
by David Mabe
March 31, 2011
The New England Board of Higher Education released a policy brief that encourages states to tie a portion of higher education appropriations to institutional outcomes. Currently, New England states tend to apportion institutional funding based on enrollment levels—a practice that rewards quantity, but not necessarily student success and degree attainment.
From President Obama to private foundations ...
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Despite Bad Press and Financial Hits, For-Profit Colleges Could Be Key Source of Transfers
by Darrell P. Aaron
February 5, 2011
In a recent article in Inside Higher Education, transfer expert Marc Cutright of the University of North Texas writes about the growing importance that four-year colleges and universities should place on students transferring from community college. Public colleges, led by community colleges, grant more than a half million associate degrees annually and the number grew ...
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Public Schools Fail More than Half of Black Male Students
by Christine Cassis
August 20, 2010
The overwhelming majority of U.S. school districts and states fail to provide resources black males need in order to close the graduation gap.
According to the Schott Foundation, during the 2007-08 academic year, only 47% of black males graduated from high school "on time" with their entering cohort.
The foundation reports that more than half of the ...
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Grad Rates Don’t Tell Full Story of Community College Performance
by John J. Sbrega
March 6, 2012
Anyone who fixates on graduation rates has little understanding not only of the rich mission and value of our community colleges, but also how deeply flawed and inadequate those rates are as a principal assessment tool for the performance of community colleges.
Graduation rate calculations apply to a small fraction of our entire student population (about ...
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