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Janet Eckerson; Christopher Jacobs – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
As state-level Seals of Biliteracy for high school graduates become more common, postsecondary language programs face questions about how to recognize this credential. While scholarship has examined the implementation of state Seals in secondary education, less attention has been paid to the role of postsecondary language programs in this new…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Bilingualism, Credentials, Postsecondary Education
Jason Bedrick; Ed Tarnowski – EdChoice, 2025
Opponents of education choice recycle the same false prophesies of doom without regard to the evidence or the size and scope of the proposals. For decades, the most common objection to education choice policies has been that they will "destroy public education." According to the critics, choice policies will induce the parents most…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Policy, Barriers, Educational Legislation
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Edmunds, Julie A. – State Education Standard, 2023
Policymakers' solutions to the problem of inequitable access to postsecondary institutions often focus on the financial barriers students face. However, other barriers are just as significant. Students may face barriers in the logistical aspect of applying to college. They may not have the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in college…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Preparation, Dual Enrollment, Models
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Hannah Acheson-Field – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
In 2008, Maine implemented the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit (EOTC), a tax credit that repays up to $4,400 of student loan debt to filers who live in Maine, work in Maine, are paying towards their student debt, and who have an eligible degree. In 2019, Maine Revenue Services (MRS) provided 14,341 EOTC tax credits to 19,798 people, with annual…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Educational Opportunities, Tax Credits
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Fischer, Christian; Witherspoon, Eben; Nguyen, Ha; Feng, Yanan; Fiorini, Stefano; Vincent-Ruz, Paulette; Mead, Chris; Bork Rodriguez, William Nicholas; Matz, Rebecca L.; Schunn, Christian – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Approximately 2 million students take Advanced Placement (AP) examinations annually. However, departmental policies that allow students to replace introductory courses with AP credit greatly vary within and across universities, even across relatively similar universities. This study examines the impact of AP credit policies on second-course…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Undergraduate Students, Credits, Educational Policy
Pooja Patel; Madeline Joy Trimble – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
CUNY Transfer Explorer (CUNY T-Rex) was developed to simplify the transfer of credits and represents an at-scale technology tool solution that provides transparent and up-to-date information about transfer credit equivalencies to students, faculty, and advisors. In addition to collaborating with CUNY to develop CUNY T-Rex, ITHAKA S+R undertook a…
Descriptors: College Credits, Bachelors Degrees, College Admission, Technology Uses in Education
Jennifer Darling-Aduana; Carolyn J. Heinrich; Jeremy Noonan; Jialing Wu; Kathryn Enriquez – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Online credit recovery (OCR) courses are the most common means through which students retake courses required for high school graduation. Yet a growing body of research has raised concerns regarding student learning in these courses, with low quality assessments posited as one contributing factor. To address this concern, we reviewed every…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Required Courses, Repetition, Credits
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Ashley E. Shivar – College and University, 2024
High school dual-enrollment and early college models are seeing a surge in popularity, though neither is new. Both early college and dual-enrollment programs were designed to speed up the pathway to any postsecondary education while also saving students money. Previous literature does not argue that early college and high school dual-enrollment…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, College Transfer Students
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Grosz, Michel; Hines, Annie – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
We study the effects of a decrease in college tuition on college application and enrollment behavior. Specifically, we use student-level data to analyze a Colorado law that granted in-state tuition to undocumented students residing in Colorado. We find an increase in the credit hours and persistence of newly enrolled and likely undocumented…
Descriptors: In State Students, Tuition, Undocumented Immigrants, College Applicants
Jennifer A. Freeman; Michael A. Gottfried; Jay Stratte Plasman – Educational Policy, 2023
Recent educational policies in the United States have fostered the growth of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career-focused courses to support high school students' persistence into these fields in college and beyond. As one key example, federal legislation has embedded new types of "applied STEM" (AS) courses…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, STEM Education, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
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Baker, Dominique J.; McCloud, Laila – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
Several states, including Texas, have implemented an "excess semester credit hours (ESCH)" policy. State ESCH policies assess a fee to students at public institutions when they exceed a set number of lifetime cumulative credit hours (e.g. students with more than the 120 credit hours needed for a bachelor's degree). In this article, we…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, College Credits, Degree Requirements
Wendy Kilgore – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2024
Undergraduate credit for prior learning (CPL) is an important aspect of today's higher-education landscape. This report presents an in-depth look at the current state of undergraduate CPL in the United States and Canada. The primary objective of the report is to foment dialogue and action toward a more inclusive, effective higher-education system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Inclusion, College Credits
Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman; Brett Fischer; Benjamin T. Skinner – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Recent state policy efforts have focused on increasing attainment among adults with some college but no degree (SCND). Yet little is actually known about the SCND population. Using data from the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), we provide the first detailed profile on the academic, employment, and earnings trajectories of the SCND…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Attainment, College Credits, Adult Education
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Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman; Brett Fischer; Benjamin T. Skinner – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Recent state policy efforts have focused on increasing attainment among adults with some college but no degree (SCND). Yet little is actually known about the SCND population. Using data from the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), we provide the first detailed profile on the academic, employment, and earnings trajectories of the SCND…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Attainment, College Credits, Adult Education
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Schudde, Lauren; Bicak, Ibrahim; Meghan, Shea – Educational Policy, 2023
The majority of community college entrants aspire to earn a bachelor's degree; yet fewer than a third do. States use several strategies to support community college's transfer function, including a transferrable core curriculum, a block of pre-major coursework universally accepted at public postsecondary institutions. In this study, we used…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Transfer Students, College Credits, Core Curriculum
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