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J. Cohen; J. Causey; B. Randolph; M. Holsapple; D. Shapiro – National Student Clearinghouse, 2025
Today, nearly 43.1 million people are stopped out of college without a credential. Of these, 37.6 million are working age adults under age 65. As states look to increase the skills of their labor forces and institutions confront changing demographic realities, re-engaging with these "Some College, No Credential" (SCNC) individuals has…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, College Students, Stopouts, Credentials
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Claudia Buchmann; Rachel E. Dwyer; Man Yao – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2025
In the United States, women have earned more bachelor's degrees than men since the mid-1980s. We examine the historical continuities in this trend and its sources, as well as changes since 2000 in gender gaps in advanced credentials, fields of study, types of institutions attended, and financing for higher education. The gender gap in bachelor's…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Credentials, Educational Trends, Time Perspective
Brian Phillips; Julie A. Edmunds; Fatih Unlu; Elizabeth Glennie; Christine Mulhern – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Early colleges are high schools that blend the high school and college experiences. They have been shown to increase college enrollment and completion; however less is known about the costs of the early college model relative to traditional high schools. We leverage randomized assignment of North Carolina students to early colleges to estimate the…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Benefits, High Schools, Higher Education
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Austin S. Jennings – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
Competency-based testing and credentialing (CBTC) initiatives aim to address inequity in adult education by fundamentally changing how states use GED®, HiSET®, and TASC™ test scores to award and withhold high school equivalency credentials. However, CBTC is inconsistent with how developers intend states to use those scores. Accordingly, it falls…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Credentials, Equal Education
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, 2025
AB 471 requires that the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing report to the Governor and the Legislature each year on the number of teachers who received credentials, certificates, permits and waivers. This report provides data collected by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing and addresses several questions regarding the…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Certification, State Legislation, Teacher Qualifications