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Terrell F. Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While Black students have experienced significant growth in college enrollment since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Higher Education Act of 1965, they are still less likely than their white counterparts to attend and graduate from a post-secondary institution (Ryan & Bauman, 2016). There have been previous studies on college…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, College Choice, College School Cooperation
Boydstun, Kelli Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative case study investigated how the GEAR-Up college readiness program influenced the postsecondary decisions of Hispanic students who participated in the GEAR-Up program for the recommended six-year period in a rural school district in Texas. It was not known how long-term participation in the GEAR-Up program at a rural school…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Youth, Hispanic American Students, Program Effectiveness
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Abraham, Katharine G.; Clark, Melissa A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2006
The District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), instituted in 1999, allows D.C. residents to attend public colleges and universities throughout the country at considerably lower in-state tuition rates. We use the sharp decline in the price of public colleges and universities faced by D.C. residents to estimate the effects of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Tuition Grants, Public Colleges, College Applicants