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Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2024
The benefits of a postsecondary credential are well-documented. Postsecondary education not only benefits the individual receiving an education, but also the community in which they live. College graduates tend to have more job opportunities and be employed in industries and roles that are less-impacted when the economy slows. This means college…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, College Graduates, Educational Attainment
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Jonathan Schweig; Rakesh Pandey; David Grant; Julia H. Kaufman; Elizabeth D. Steiner; Dorothy Seaman – RAND Corporation, 2023
U.S. students have lost significant learning in mathematics and other subjects since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020. The 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics scores for students in grades 4 and 8 reflected record declines, with the largest decreases for students experiencing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Mathematics Instruction
Shaw-Amoah, Anna; Lapp, David – Research for Action, 2022
Research for Action's "Educational Opportunity Dashboard" is an interactive on-line tool to synthesize data and rank all 50 states by how well they provide students access to schools that offer 14 indicators of educational opportunity from the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. On the Dashboard the indicators are compiled into an…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Access to Education, Equal Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Hill, Laura E.; Prunty, Emmanuel – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
California is on the cusp of implementing universal preschool--a step that could help level the playing eld for young children. Over the next few years, all four-year-olds will become eligible for Transitional Kindergarten (TK), which has been part of the state's early learning programs since 2012. In the report, "Setting the Stage for…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, State Programs, Access to Education, Equal Education
Molly Faulkner-Bond; Amanda Nabors; Lorna Porter; Tuyet Tran – Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2024
This report provides information about the educational experiences and opportunities of public school English learner (EL) students in the United States as compared to public school students overall during the 2017-18 school year (SY) based on analyses of two, large, federal datasets: the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) and the Common Core of…
Descriptors: English Learners, Educational Experience, Student Experience, Educational Opportunities
Center for Children's Initiatives, 2020
This briefing guide offers the latest data on the availability of child care and pre-K by legislative district as well as new documentation on affordability by county and median salaries for early childhood educators. Today 9 out of 10 families cannot afford quality child care. Further 4 out of 5 four-year olds outside of New York City have no…
Descriptors: Budgets, Child Care, Educational Quality, Preschool Children
Erica Holt-White; Carl Cullinane; Rebecca Montacute – Sutton Trust, 2025
Opportunity is not evenly spread across the country. A young person's socio-economic background -- including the income level of their family, their parents' educational qualifications, and their family's wealth -- all play a critical role in shaping their future. But as well as variations between families and across socio-economic groups, Britain…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Futures (of Society), Family Income, Educational Attainment
Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education, 2019
The 2015-16 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a survey of public schools and school districts in the United States. The CRDC measures student access to courses, programs, staff, and resources that impact education equity and opportunity for students. The CRDC has long provided critical information used by the Department of Education's Office…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Safety, Public Schools, Civil Rights
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2021
Latinx Californians represent the largest ethnic group in the state, with a demographic that is disproportionately young. The state must significantly increase the educational opportunity and success of Latinx Californians, ensuring that more of them are prepared for college, attend college, and graduate with the skills necessary to thrive…
Descriptors: State Universities, Hispanic American Students, Access to Education, Academic Achievement
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2021
The future of California will be defined by ensuring better educational opportunity for Latinx Californians. While historic numbers of Latinx students are graduating from high school prepared for college and are enrolling in higher education, these numbers are still too low. Inequitable access to college opportunity and success in graduating with…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Attendance, State Universities, Race
Arellano, Amber; Grech, Mary; Hubbard, Lauren – Education Trust-Midwest, 2019
Since the launch of the Michigan Achieves! campaign, the Education Trust-Midwest (ETM) has tracked Michigan's performance and progress towards the goal of becoming a top ten state for education opportunity and achievement, focusing on key data-driven indicators. It's important for Michiganders to understand how the state's students are performing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Opportunities, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2018
A full year of progress in advancing education reform across America is documented in each of the Foundation for Excellence in Education's Annual Reports. This report presents the broad range of initiatives that the Foundation for Excellence in Education is working on--policies that personalize the learning experience for students, that challenge…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Learning Experience, College Readiness
Plucker, Jonathan; Glynn, Jennifer; Healey, Grace; Dettmer, Amanda – Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2018
A growing body of research offers evidence that high-ability students from lower-income families are far less likely than wealthier students to be identified for advanced level course work and opportunities. They are also less likely to achieve at high levels, despite their aptitude. Lacking access to the enriched academic opportunities,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Low Income, Educational Opportunities, Talent
OECD Publishing, 2016
Socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged students are not equally exposed to mathematics problems and concepts at school. Exposure to mathematics at school has an impact on performance, and disadvantaged students' relative lack of familiarity with mathematics partly explains their lower performance. Widening access to mathematics content…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Access to Education
Holmes, Venita R. – Houston Independent School District, 2020
This study explored postsecondary trends of Houston Independent School District (HISD) high school seniors over the past three years, including students who participated in direct advising sessions through Launch Senior. Three cohorts of students attended HISD schools in ninth through twelfth grades, culminating in either 2017-2018 (Cohort I) or…
Descriptors: College Readiness, High School Seniors, Academic Advising, College Attendance
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