Posts Tagged ‘Postsecondary Education’
Delinquents: Student Borrowing Behavior
by David Mabe
March 17, 2011
Students who left postsecondary institutions before earning a degree or certificate—and students who attended two-year and for-profit institutions—faced delinquency on their student loans at much higher rates than their peers, according to a new study released by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP).
Delinquency: The Untold Story of Student Loan Borrowing, ...
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Mismatch in the Labor Market: The Supply of and Demand for “Middle-Skill” Workers in New England
by Alicia Sasser Modestino
February 8, 2011
Over the past decade, policymakers and business leaders across New England have been concerned that the region’s slower population growth and loss of residents to other parts of the country will lead to a shortage of skilled labor—particularly when the baby boom generation retires. Prior to the Great Recession, the concern ...
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How to Develop Learners Who Are Consistently Curious and Questioning
by Jamie E. Scurry, Ariel Wilburn, Alex Villagomez and Mike McCarthy
December 21, 2010
In the U.S., postsecondary education has long driven individual social mobility and collective economic prosperity. Nonetheless, the nation’s labor force includes 54 million adults who lack a college degree; of those, nearly 34 million have no college experience at all. In the 21st century, these numbers cannot sustain us.
Returning to learning: Adults’ success ...
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Florida Is First State to Standardize
by Christine Cassis
November 22, 2010
The Florida Department of Education announced the nation's first state assessment to incorporate common core standards.
Working with the test developer McCann Associates, Florida will launch the test at 28 colleges in an effort to both place students and assess readiness for college-level work. Florida's Postsecondary Education Readiness Test (PERT) will be given to high school ...
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In Maine, Postsecondary Success Starts Before College
by Gov. Paul R. LePage
June 6, 2011
NEJHE presents exclusive articles by New England's governors on higher education in their states ...
Last spring, 83% of Maine public high school students who began high school four years earlier received a diploma.
About 65% of those graduates likely enrolled in some form of postsecondary education—at a public university, private institution, community college or elsewhere.
A 2008 ...
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