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Focus: Refuse to Lose
Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success. Students who enroll in a four-year residential program right out of high school are no longer the norm — and even many of those who fit this category come to More »
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Pew Hispanic Center Report: Latino Youth Finishing College
The gap in the number of Latino and white college students who graduate with a bachelor’s degree is wider even than the substantial differences in high school completion and constitutes the greatest disparity in educational outcomes between the nation’s largest More »
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Do Graduation Tests Measure Up? A Closer Look at State High School Exit Exams
High school graduation exams are in place in nearly half the states, and more than half the nation’s high school students have to pass them to earn a diploma. There have been countless commentaries about the fairness of such tests, More »
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Student Retention and Graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
This paper provides a broad survey of what is known about why students leave college before completing their program of study. It also presents successful strategies for promoting retention and graduation and offers suggestions for federal policy directions to improve More »
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CollegeCosts Collision Course
One of the most critical issues affecting higher education access today is the rising cost of college. Symptoms of the trend include dramatic increases in tuition and fees, reduced state higher education budgets, declines in the purchasing power of student More »
