"While the federal government seeks to promote educational attainment and equity through its extensive investment in student financial aid, states have primary responsibility for policies that affect the educational attainment of their populations. Despite the centrality of state policy, however, we know relatively little about the relationship between state policy and these outcomes. This book addresses this knowledge gap. Drawing on data collected from descriptive case studies of the relationship between public policy and higher education performance in five states (Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Texas, and Washington), this book offers a more complete conceptual framework for understanding how state public policy can promote educational attainment. The resulting framework has five central tenets that help us understanding how to improve overall educational attainment and increase equity in that attainment. At its core, the model assumes that higher education performance is determined by effective state policy leadership for higher education. The book also illustrates the need for state policies that reduce the cumulative negative implications of policies that perpetuate differences in educational outcomes across groups and that proactively address the barriers that limit educational attainment for underachieving groups. This book has important implications for public policymakers, college and university leaders, educational researchers and others who are interested in understanding how public policy canimprove educational attainment and equity in attainment across groups"--
... get a statistically significant result. Thus, as we shall see later, while there are some reasons to think that some of ... Graduation Rates Any realistic strategy to increase significantly the number of community college graduates must ...
This book brings together current regional perspectives on widening participation as presented by prominent academics, researchers, policy-makers, and students from across the globe.
This book offers a new model of educational achievement to explain why some students are committed to preparation for college. On the Edge of Commitment is a provocative assessment of how young people decide how far to go in school.
From Superstar Assemblies to encourage their dreams and aspirations; to Munch ‘n Mingle sessions to encourage healthy eating; to Marvellous Me software to encourage the use of open-ended questions and parent-child conversations at home; ...
In Hijacking the Agenda, political scientists Christopher Witko, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns examine why Congress privileges the concerns of businesses and the wealthy over those of average Americans.
where high school students can learn more about postsecondary options; Introduction to College, for students in their ... It also integrates career planning with academic planning, rather than separating academic advising and career ...
This book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda.
... agenda. Revelations of the high salaries of MAT CEOs comes at a difficult time when they is juxtaposed with funding ... The attainment agenda is the one academies, individually and collectively, will win on. Restricting numbers of SEND ...
differences are present in the entire world where peoples face cultural diversity in all spheres of human life. Socio-interculturalism is a concept of tolerance between the diverse cultures (Perotti, 1995; Vrcelj, 2005; Hrvatić, 2007; ...
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