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Zhang, Liang; Ness, Erik C. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
In this study, the authors use college enrollment and migration data to test the brain drain hypothesis. Their results suggest that state merit scholarship programs do indeed stanch the migration of "best and brightest" students to other states. In the aggregate and on average, the implementation of state merit aid programs increases the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Student Mobility, Student Recruitment
Hamilton, Scott W., Ed. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008
America's urban Catholic schools are in crisis. This report finds that over 1,300 schools have shut down since 1990, mostly in our cities. As a result, some 300,000 students have been displaced--forced to attend other public, private, or parochial schools. The school closures have cost taxpayers more than $20 billion to accommodate the additional…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Catholic Schools, Catholics, Marketing