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Bartik, Timothy J.; Belford, Jonathan A.; Gormley, William T.; Anderson, Sara – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2016
In this paper, benefits and costs are estimated for a universal pre-K program, provided by Tulsa Public Schools. Benefits are derived from estimated effects of Tulsa pre-K on retention by grade 9. Retention effects are projected to dollar benefits from future earnings increases and crime reductions. Based on these estimates, Tulsa pre-K has…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Preschool Education, Equal Education, Public Schools
Jackson, Jacob – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
The majority of freshmen entering California State University (CSU) system graduate, but most do not do so within four years. Graduating later has many costs--from the tuition and associated costs for extra years of schooling to forgoing years of entering the workforce--and students from low-income families as well as students of color are more…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Academic Persistence, College Credits, Courses
House, Ann; Boyce, Jared; Wang, Sam; Means, Barbara; Peters Hinton, Vanessa; Wetzel, Tallie – Online Submission, 2018
Purpose: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Next Generation Courseware Challenge (NGCC) in 2014 to address the limited availability of affordable, high-quality adaptive courseware to postsecondary students. SRI International was retained to evaluate the NGCC initiative as a whole and to conduct impact studies for the NGCC…
Descriptors: Courseware, College Students, Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education
Bettinger, Eric; Gurantz, Oded; Kawano, Laura; Sacerdote, Bruce – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2016
We examine the impacts of being awarded a Cal Grant, among the most generous state merit aid programs. We exploit variation in eligibility rules using GPA and family income cutoffs that are ex ante unknown to applicants. Cal Grant eligibility increases degree completion by 2 to 5 percentage points in our reduced form estimates. Cal Grant also…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, Grants, State Aid, Eligibility
Michalopoulos, Charles; Faucetta, Kristen; Warren, Anne; Mitchell, Robert – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2017
Children from low-income families are more likely than those from higher income families to have poor social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and health outcomes. One approach that has helped parents and their young children is home visiting, which provides information, resources, and support to expectant parents and families with young…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Low Income Groups, Home Visits, Family Programs
Johnson, Hans; Mejia, Marisol Cuellar – Public Policy Institute of California, 2014
As costs of attending college have risen and access to higher education has declined, policymakers and community college officials are looking to online learning as one way to better serve student needs, increase access, promote completion, and increase transfer to four-year universities--all in a cost-effective manner. Online learning is still a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Mayer, Alexander K.; Patel, Reshma; Rudd, Timothy; Ratledge, Alyssa – MDRC, 2015
Performance-based scholarships have two main goals: (1) to give students more money for college; and (2) to provide incentives for academic progress. MDRC launched the Performance-Based Scholarship (PBS) Demonstration in 2008 to evaluate the effectiveness of these scholarships in a diverse set of states, institutions, and low-income student…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Factors, Academic Achievement
Fain, Terry; Turner, Susan; Ridgeway, Greg – RAND Corporation, 2010
In 2000, the California State Legislature passed the Schiff-Cardenas Crime Prevention Act, which authorized funding for county juvenile-justice programs and designated the Corrections Standards Authority (CSA) (formerly named the Board of Corrections) the administrator of funding. A 2001 California Senate bill extended the funding and changed the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Crime Prevention, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
West, Martha W.; Koch, Rowena A. – 1974
In the spring of 1973, a study was conducted of the interlibrary lending (ILL) process at the California State University and Colleges (CSUC) libraries. Twelve of the 19 CSUC campuses were involved in the study--four in northern California and eight in southern California, the latter already experimenting with telefacsimile interlibrary loan…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Facsimile Transmission, Higher Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1980
An examination of the degrees of diversity in off-campus education in California is presented. An off-campus inventory, detailed questions, and questionnaires were sent to the public segments and central offices of the University and State University on a variety of topics including: curriculum; administrative mechanisms; procedures for hiring…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Extension Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1980
The effectiveness of institutional, state, and federal efforts to expand educational participation in California is examined in this third of a three-report series on equal opportunity in California postsecondary education. The purposes of this report are to: (1) review the progress made during the past five years, (2) identify the barriers to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, American Indians, College Students
Vernez, Georges; Krop, Richard A.; Rydell, C. Peter – 1999
This study explored the implications of demographic trends on the quality of the future labor force and on public social expenditures. It also focused on the educational costs and social benefits of educational and immigration policy alternatives designed to close the gap in educational attainment between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics and…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Cost Effectiveness, Demography