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Higher education attainment goals can serve as a “north star” to guide states’ postsecondary policies, investments, and agendas. The extent to which state attainment goals lead to substantive improvements in college-going rates, college graduation rates, postsecondary credential attainment rates, and reductions in labor market skills gaps is as yet unclear. Further, the likelihood a state…

Collective efforts have contributed to Michigan raising the share of workers having attained a valuable post-high school credential eight points in the past nine years–from 36 percent to 44 percent. But this is not nearly enough. Other states are outpacing Michigan in the talent race by marshaling greater will to implement real policy change.

This issue of Lumina Foundation Focus is about highlighting the trends — and trendsetters — in publishing student-performance data. Organizations such as the Data Quality Campaign, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and the State Higher Education Executive Officers association have long championed this effort. And, as you’ll see in this issue of…