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Direct linkHurwitz, Michael; Smith, Jonathan; Niu, Sunny; Howell, Jessica – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
We use a difference-in-differences analytic approach to estimate postsecondary consequences from Maine's mandate that all public school juniors take the SAT®. We find that, overall, the policy increased 4-year college-going rates by 2- to 3-percentage points and that 4-year college-going rates among induced students increased by 10-percentage…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Enrollment, College Attendance, Accountability
LePage, Paul R. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2011
A 2008 report from the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Culture Affairs of the Maine Legislature indicates a quarter of those who enrolled at a public university in Maine required a remedial course to catch them up to the level where they should have been when they completed high school. Regardless of how hard Maine has tried and how much…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change
Download full textConnection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2006
In February 2006, Nellie Mae Education Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Blenda J. Wilson convened a roundtable discussion on trends in education philanthropy. Wilson's guests were Ron Ancrum, president of Associated Grant Makers, which serves grantmaking members in Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Nancy P. Roberts, president of the…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, College Attendance, Philanthropic Foundations, Paying for College
