College Access
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Promoting Educational Opportunity: The Pell Grant Program at Community Colleges
Davis S. Baime and Christopher M. Mullin, American Association of Community Colleges, June 2011
The College Payoff: Education, Occupations, and Lifetime Earnings
Anthony P .Carnevale, Stephen J. Rose and Ban Cheah, The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, August 2011
Michael Greenstone, Director, The Hamilton Project and Senior Fellow, Economic Studies & Adam Looney, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, and Policy Director, The Hamilton Project
Priced Out: How the Wrong Financial-Aid Policies Hurt Low-Income Students
The Education Trust, June 2011
The Role of Mentoring in College Access and Success
Institute for Higher Education Policy, June 2011
Community Colleges and Regional Recovery: Strategies for State Action
Richard Kazis, The Brookings Institution, May 2011
The Benefits of Attending Community College: A Review of the Evidence
Clive R. Belfield, Queens College, City University of New York, April 2011
Degrees for What Jobs? Raising Expectations for Colleges and Universities in a Global Economy (PDF)
Erin Sparks, Mary Jo Waits, National Governors Association, March 2011
Education in Chronically Poor Rural Areas Lags Across Generations
Jessica D. Ulrich, Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, March 2011
Susan Scrivener and Erin Coghlan, MDRC, March 2011
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge (PDF)
William C. Symonds, Robert B. Schwartz and Ronald Ferguson, Pathways to Prosperity Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education, February 2011
Andrew P. Kelley and Mark Schneider, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, January 2011
Sandy Baum, Jennifer Ma and Kathleen Payea, College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, September 2010
Easy Come, EZ-GO: A Federal Role in Removing Jurisdictional Impediments to College Education
Brian A. Sponsler, Gregory S. Kienzl, Alexis J. Wesaw, Center for American Progress, November 2010
Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018
Anthony P. Carnevale, Nicole Smith, Jeff Strohl, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
The Case for Improved Higher Education Access and Attainment
Lumina Foundation, 2010
How Increasing College Access Is Increasing Inequality, and What to Do about It
Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, Rewarding Strivers; Century Foundation Press, Richard D. Kahlenberg, ed., June 2010
Graduated Success: Sustainable Economic Opportunity Through One- and Two-Year Credentials
Jennifer Wheary, Viany Orozco, Demos, February 2010
Open-Access Colleges Responsible for Greatest Gains in Graduation Rate
William R. Doyle, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, February 2010
Student Debt 101: Why College Students Are Burdened by Debt and What To Do About It
Viany Orozco, Demos, March 2010
Lumina Foundation Strategic Plan 2025: to increase higher educational attainment by 60 percent (PDF)
Lumina Foundation, 2009
Young Adults and Higher Education: Barriers and Breakthroughs to Success (PDF)
Thomas Brock, National Poverty Center, August 2009
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Douglas N. Harris, Christopher Mazzeo, Gregory Kienzl, The Brookings Institution, May 2009
The Condition of Education 2009
Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
Educational Attainment in Alabama (PDF)
Center for Business and Economic Research, 2009
High School Career Academies: A 40-Year Proven Model for Improving College and Career Readiness
Betsy Brand, American Youth Policy Forum, 2009
The College Ladder: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education for Success for All Students
Jennifer Brown Lerner, Betsy Brand, American Youth Policy Forum
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Douglas N. Harris, Christopher Mazzeo, Gregory Kienzl, The Brookings Institution, May 2009
The Condition of Education 2009
National Center for Education Statistics
Educational Attainment in Alabama (PDF)
Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Alabama
Educational Attainment Rates in Alabama
Lumina Foundation, 2009
College readiness issue brief: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education
Indiana Pathways to College Network, 2008
High School Dropouts – Alabama’s Number One Economic Problem
Southern Education Foundation, 2007
Facts for Education Advocates: The Economic Impact of Education (PDF)
The College Board, 2007
A National Dialogue: The Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education
U.S. Department of Education, September 2006
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2005
Income of U.S. Workforce Project to Decline if Education Doesn’t Improve
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2005
The Educational Pipeline: Big Investment, Big Returns
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, April 2004
Responding to the Crisis in College Opportunity
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, January 2004
The Role of Student Loans in College Access (PDF)
The College Board National Dialogue on Student Financial Aid, 2003
The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings (PDF)
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2002