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Harmon, Timothy – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
The Postsecondary Value Commission, in its exploration of return on investment and value of a higher education, desired to better understand the current state of earnings data for states and institutions so that they could effectively measure and understand post-college employment and earnings. To that end, this brief includes a review of research…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, College Graduates, Employment Opportunities
Causey, J.; Gardner, A.; Pevitz, A.; Ryu, M.; Shapiro, D. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2023
Nearly all states in the United States (45) currently have a postsecondary attainment goal to improve the average education levels of their residents and develop a highly-educated workforce. During a time of accelerated COVID-19 related postsecondary enrollment declines, the question as to how states will meet these goals could be particularly…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, College Enrollment, Enrollment Rate
Causey, J.; Kim, H.; Ryu, M.; Scheetz, A.; Shapiro, D. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2022
Low student success rates are widespread in American higher education. More than a quarter of freshmen do not return for their second year; at community colleges, it is 41 percent. In 2019, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center identified 36 million adults who had some postsecondary experience but had yet to earn any type of…
Descriptors: Credentials, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Statewide Planning
Peace Bransberger – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2023
Nationwide, public schools began to experience a youth population decline prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. After 14 years of successively smaller U.S. birth cohorts, elementary public schools now face gradually declining student counts. The complex convergence of shifting age demographics, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Educational Policy, Enrollment Trends
Causey, J.; Pevitz, A.; Ryu, M.; Scheetz, A.; Shapiro, D. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2022
As the tenth in the Completing College series, this report updates the six-year college completion rates nationally and by state, by tracking the enrollment and completion outcomes for the fall 2015 cohort of beginning college students through June 2021. The national completion rate measures the performance of the entire higher education system.…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, College Graduates, Educational Attainment, Outcomes of Education
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Brown, Joshua Travis – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2017
Higher education accountability is a field characterized by complexity. Prior frameworks grounded in psychometrics, economics, and history fall short in explaining the persistence and composition of its complexity. This article employs organizational theory to identify the multiple conflicting approaches of higher education accountability and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Organizational Theories, Evaluation
Kansas Association of School Boards, 2017
The Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) Comparing Kansas report data provides information related to the Kansas State Board of Education's Kansans Can outcomes and the "Rose Capacities" identified by the Kansas Supreme Court as a standard of constitutional funding and adopted as educational goals by the Kansas Legislature. It also…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Indicators, School Statistics, Educational Attainment