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The Effects of Educational Supports for the "Missing One-Offs" in Vocational High Schools
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-07-01)
A growing body of evidence suggests that vocationally focused programs of study substantially improve high-school completion and longer-run economic success. However, the corresponding recommendations to expand vocational ...
Priced Out: A Closer Look at Postsecondary Affordability for Latinos
(Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, 2012-08-16)
A key barrier to college access and completion for Latinos is financial. Latino families experience the college affordability landscape in dramatically different ways than White and Asian families, whose needs may well be ...
Profile of Very Low And Low-Income Undergraduates in 2015–16
(U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, 2019-10-01)
The primary objectives behind postsecondary financial aid programs are to increase access, improve affordability, and promote equal opportunity and college success for postsecondary students (Gillen 2010). Low-income ...
Low-Income Students Who They Are and How They Pay for Their Education
(U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2000-03-01)
Students from low-income families typically need substantial financial assistance to be able to attend college. This report examines the characteristics of low-income undergraduates and how they pay for college. It begins ...
Out of Reach? How a Shared Definition of College Affordability Exposes a Crisis for Low-Income Students
(Demos, 2016)
This analysis attempts to use one definition of affordability to figure out which states have affordable college for which students. Simply, the Rule of 10 states that college is affordable if students can meet the total ...
Paving the Way Through Paid Internships: A Proposal to Expand Educational and Economic Opportunities for Low-Income College Students
(Demos, 2010)
Doing an internship while in college has become a near prerequisite for obtaining a good job. Yet internships are often out of reach for low-income students because most of them are unpaid. This report outlines the ...
Achieving the Dream in Connecticut: State Policies Affecting Access to, and Success in, Community Colleges for Students of Color and Low-Income Students
(Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2006-11-11)
Connecticut is one of two states in the second round of the Achieving the Dream initiative. In joining the initiative along with Ohio, it brings in a northern state that is quite different from the five southern and ...
Equity Snapshot: University of Wisconsin – Madison
(Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), 2018-10-01)
Public flagship universities were established with a mission to provide an excellent education to their states’ residents and are therefore well-positioned to enhance social and economic mobility within their states. Yet ...
Leveling the Playing Field: Expanding Access to Higher Education
(Demos, 2004-08-04)
There has been a fundamental shift in our nation's priorities for ensuring access to higher education. In the 1970s and 1980s, most aid was awarded in grants, while loans remained relatively low. Over the last two decades, ...
Equal Talents, Unequal Opportunities, Second Edition: A Report Card on State Support for Academically Talented Low-Income Students
(Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2018-03-01)
The Cooke Foundation issues this periodic state-by-state analysis to measure state policy support for advanced learning and to highlight disparities in educational participation and outcomes of advanced learners from ...