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Davis, Lois M. – RAND Corporation, 2019
Each year, more than 700,000 incarcerated individuals leave federal and state prisons and return to local communities where they will have to compete with individuals in those communities for jobs. In today's economy, having a college education is necessary to compete for many jobs, and the stakes for ex-offenders are higher than they are for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Liu, Vivian Yuen Ting – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
Does extra financial aid for the summer lead to gains in completion and earnings? Despite being the largest source of financial aid to low-income college students, the traditional Pell Grant has had one major limitation: if students enroll in two semesters full-time, they will not have any tuition support for the summer term of the same academic…
Descriptors: Grants, Student Financial Aid, Low Income Groups, Summer Programs
Kelchen, Robert; Goldrick-Rab, Sara – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2013
The persistently low college enrollment and completion rates of youth from poor families are partly attributable to their uncertainty about whether college is affordable. In the current system, concrete information about college costs arrives at the end of high school and is only available to those who complete a complex application. Evidence…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Feasibility Studies