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Why is US Declining in World Rankings on Higher Education Access and Completion?
Professor John Aubrey Douglass has written a good analysis of trends in Us higher education in the magazine , California, June 2008. As the first nation to implement mass higher education US led in most in access and college completion. But we have h...
Remediation Effectiveness Studies Do Not Include Most Students
The July 4 Chronicle of Higher Education has an article "3 New Studies Ouestion the Value of Remediatial College Courses". These studies all report little impact in terms of college completion upon students who took remedial courses, or any substanti...
The Ideal State Postsecondary Data System
The state higher education executive officers {SHEEO} has published the best guide yet on how to design a postsecondary education system so that it links to k12 , and follows students through college. The 15 categories and functions are organized int...
Positive Research Study on Early College High Schools
Guest blogger Jamie Shkolnik, American Institutes for ResearchThe Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI) was started in 2002 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the goal of improving postsecondary access and success, particularly for st...
Incentives and Signals Can Improve College Success
We need to reformulate the college access issue to focus more on “access to preparation and success,” rather than the more traditional issue of access to a slot in postsecondary education.Student incentives and signals to students are important c...
