The Communities In Schools (CIS) Model of Integrated Student Supports aims to reduce dropout rates by providing students with integrated and tiered support services based on their levels of need. The model includes preventive services that are available to all students (Level 1 services) as well as intensive, targeted, and sustained services…

Countries around the world have witnessed educational expansion at all levels, leading to the massification of tertiary education and training. Tertiary education has become a major factor of economic competitiveness in an increasingly science-based global economy and a key response to shifts in national labour markets. Within the EU, the reform…

This 2009 KIDS COUNT Data Brief features highlights of the enhanced, mobile-friendly Data Center; data on the 10 key indicators of child well-being for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and many cities, counties, and school districts; and a summary of this year's essay, which calls for improvements to the nation's ability to design and…

This brief summarizes the findings of the larger study, "Just Learning: The Imperative to Transform Juvenile Justice Systems into Effective Educational Systems. A Study of Juvenile Justice Schools in the South and the Nation." With awareness growing that schools are disciplining and suspending minority students at alarming rates, the…

One-third of future students will earn baccalaureates intermittently rather than in four straight years. The ways in which colleges can plan for the change are discussed. Demographic realities, why patterns are changing, the emerging norm, and adapting to change are discussed. (MLW)

Trends in projected demand for higher education are examined, including those resulting from new economic incentives for college attendance. Topics discussed include enrollment trends among traditional-age, older, and continuing students; noncredit students at traditional institutions; and distance students. Various aspects of "capacity" are…

Year after year, the goal of educators, parents, and concerned citizens throughout Alabama is to provide this state's children with the highest level of quality education possible. The future of Alabama's businesses, industries, commerce, labor force, arts, humanities, and countless other areas are determined by the education that is provided to…

This report describes trends and patterns in school-leaver entry to higher education in Scotland. (School-leaver entrants to higher education are those who leave school and start higher education in the same year, or direct entrants.) The report uses data from the Scottish School Leavers' Survey (SSLS), a biennial sample survey of school leavers…

Despite their recent establishment, tribal colleges play a unique community role and have grown in importance as providers of educational access for American Indians. Most, in enrolling students from as many as 40 different tribes and significant numbers of non-Indian students, are shifting enrollment patterns among Native Americans and helping…

A speech given by Harold Hodgkinson on the demographics of higher education in the near future is summarized and excerpted. Topics discussed include growing ethnic diversity in the college-student population, applicant-pool projections, the relationship between education and income, attendance patterns (part- vs. full-time, time to degree), and…

In recent years, Latinas (females) have been graduating from high school, attending college, and attaining bachelor's and master's degrees at higher rates than their male counterparts, whereas Latinos (males) continue to attain doctorates, tenure-track professorships, and high-level administrative positions at higher rates than their female…

Designed as an aid in evaluating the past academic year by summarizing and consolidating college and districtwide information, this annual report provides technical information about the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) for 1984-85. After initial sections offer a district overview and data summary, the bulk of the report presents…

This three-part report provides tables and graphs describing the South County Community College District in California in terms of district population demographics, registration patterns and student characteristics for fall 1989, and longitudinal trend data on student characteristics. Section 1 provides U.S. Census data for the district population…

This report uses tables, graphs, and text to summarize 1996-97 data on key indicators of progress by minority groups in American higher education. Data sources included Census Bureau Current Population Reports, the Higher Education General Information and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey reports, and surveys conducted by the…

The "Dropouts in Massachusetts Public Schools" report is an annual report created by the Massachusetts Department of Education (MADOE) to provide districts and the public general information on dropouts in Massachusetts. The intention of this report was not to draw conclusions or make recommendations on the current state of dropouts in…