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Indiana Commission for Higher Education, 2021
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has for years acknowledged and addressed the equity and achievement gaps that exist in the state's education pipeline. In 2013, the Commission passed a resolution to close Indiana's educational achievement gaps by 2025. In 2021, gaps are closing, but not quickly enough. Data must be the driving force…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Gap, Equal Education, College Attendance
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Stoker, Ginger; Mellor, Lynn – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2018
This study examines the impact of providing parents with an informational brochure about the role of algebra II in college access on students' grade 11 algebra II completion rates in Texas. One hundred nine schools, covering all 20 Educational Service Center regions in Texas, participated in the study. Parents in the 54 treatment schools were…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Parents, Algebra, Access to Education
Coca, Vanessa – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2014
Over the past 15 years, in New York City and across the country, expectations for high schools--and high school students--have changed dramatically. Increasingly, high schools are being asked not only to reduce dropout rates and boost graduation rates, but also to impart knowledge, skills, and experiences that will prepare students to succeed in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Enrollment Trends, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education
Achieve, Inc., 2010
To assess the raised expectations of college and career readiness for all students, a group of American Diploma Project (ADP) Network states formed the ADP Assessment Consortium in 2005. The Consortium created Algebra I and II end-of-course exams, based in large part on Achieve's ADP mathematics benchmarks, which would provide an honest assessment…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Consortia, Algebra
Choy, Susan P.; Berkner, Lutz; Li, Xiaojie; Woo, Jennie; Lee, John; Topper, Amy – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2010
The Department of Education is vitally interested in whether the financial incentives provided by the grants affect student behavior. That is, will the Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACGs) induce more economically disadvantaged high school students to complete a rigorous high school program and enroll and succeed in postsecondary education? Will…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Federal Legislation
McCormick, Alexander C. – 1999
This report uses postsecondary transcript data for members of the High School and Beyond Sophomore Cohort (students who were sophomores in 1980) to examine progress toward the Bachelor's degree among high school graduates who expected at least a Bachelor's degree, first enrolled at a 4-year institution, and had completed at least 10 semester…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Bachelors Degrees, College Students, Credits
Mahoney, Susan S. – 1989
Credit earned by examination at the University of Texas at Austin is equivalent to credit earned by taking the academic course, but cannot be counted as credit earned in residence. In the 1988-89 testing year, eight colleges or schools of the university participated in the credit-by-examination program. Evaluations of 29,698 test scores from 50…
Descriptors: College Students, Equivalency Tests, Graduation Requirements, Higher Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
This report provides information concerning academic performance and other issues related to student athletes in college. Proposed legislation would require postsecondary schools receiving federal assistance and offering athletic scholarships to report certain kinds of data annually, and the availability of such data is one of the topics discussed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Athletes, College Students, Drug Abuse
Tennessee State Board of Education, Nashville. – 2000
This annual report complies with the requirements of Tennessee's Public Education Governance Reform Act of 1984, which directs the State Board of Education and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to prepare a report on: (1) the extent of duplication in elementary-secondary and postsecondary education in Tennessee; (2) the extent to which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Annual Reports, Educational Planning
Choy, Susan P.; Berkner, Lutz; Lee, John; Topper, Amelia – US Department of Education, 2009
The "Higher Education Reconciliation Act of 2005" created two new grant programs for undergraduates: the Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) program and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (National SMART) Grant program. The ACG program is intended to encourage students to take challenging courses in high school and thus…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Postsecondary Education, High Schools, Income
Office of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, 2000
Recognizing the growing importance of the quality of teaching in America's schools and the need to prepare a record number of teachers in the coming years, the Congress included a new focus on improving teacher preparation when it reauthorized the Higher Education Act in 1998. Title II of the new law created three Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Quality, Accountability
McLain, Barbara; Thompson, Madeleine – 2001
This report describes educational programs and opportunities available to Washington state's high school students, emphasizing changes brought about by the state's education reform. Information came from surveys and interviews with teachers, students, and parents and state and national data. The study examined whether high schools were increasing…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Graduation
Clegg, Ambrose A.; And Others – 1991
In 1989, Ohio's Kent State University (KSU) Office of Admissions and Records developed a list of 1,404 students who had transferred from Ohio's Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) to KSU between 1979 and 1989. Demographic, enrollment, academic performance, and graduation data were analyzed to determine the impact on transfer students of a proposed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Standards, Black Students
Bruening, Thomas H.; Scanlon, Dennis C. – 2001
The status of career and technical education (CTE) teacher preparation programs was examined through a survey sent to all CTE program chairs and teacher educators with administrative responsibilities. The survey was also posted on the World Wide Web. Data were received from 227 programs from 164 institutions (response rate, 44%). Ten percent of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Admission Criteria, Colleges, Comparative Analysis