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ACCESS: PREPARATION
Gauging success of pre-college access programs
The McCabe Fund, a Lumina Foundation initiative, supports nonprofit, community-based organizations that work directly with students — particularly low-income students, first-generation college students and students of color — to promote improved access to postsecondary education. A recent evaluation of the McCabe Fund is beginning to identify the most effective types of pre-college access programs. More...
SUCCESS: PERSISTENCE
Report shows signs of improved persistence rates
A recent National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report shows early indications that college persistence is on the rise. The NCES report analyzes changes in five-year degree completion and postsecondary persistence rates between 1994 and 2000 and finds measurable changes in five-year persistence rates. Read the report,
College Persistence on the Rise?
SUCCESS: PERSISTENCE
High school graduation rates remain stagnant
The high school student drop-out rate has remained flat since 1987 according to a new NCES report. In 2001, nearly 11 percent of 16- through 24-year-olds were not enrolled in a high school program and had not completed high school. The report also reveals that students living in
low-income families are six times more likely than their peers in high-income families to drop out of high school. More...
ACCESS: INFORMATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT
Jail cells or classrooms?
If America wants to keep its youth, particularly minority and low-income youth, on a track to college, it needs to plug some leaks in the pipeline to college. Learn more in a new publication from a Jobs for the Future publication, From the
Prison Track to the College Track (PDF).
ACCESS: PREPARATION
Rigorous courses needed to prepare students for college
Only 22 percent of high school graduates who took the ACT assessment in 2004 achieved scores that would deem them ready for college in all three basic academic areas - English, math and science. This finding comes in a recent report from ACT, Crisis at the Core: Preparing All Students for College and Work. The publication
warns that taking core curriculum courses does not guarantee college preparedness and urges more rigorous courses for students at all levels. |
