The College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act of 2013 (CCR-CCA) established a number of requirements designed to increase college and career readiness as well as degree completion in Maryland. With a rapidly changing economy and a focus on increasing the percent of young adults with postsecondary degrees, the intent of the Act is to…

High School and Beyond is a national longitudinal study of the cohorts of 1980 seniors and sophomores in the United States, intended to provide information on these students through early adulthood. It is part of a program of national longitudinal studies of American youth initiated in 1972. This base year student file includes information on…

This documentation is intended to assist users of the school file which was prepared from information collected for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72). The school file is a companion to the NLS-72 student-based data file and consists of 1,318 records, one from each high school from which NLS-72 students are…