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Download full textWashington Student Achievement Council, 2024
In 2013, the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC) proposed as the state goal that 70 percent of the state's 25- to 44-year-olds (i.e., early and mid-career residents) should have a credential beyond high school. WSAC's Strategic Action Plan (SAP) provides a framework to organize the policy and practice innovation needed to achieve this…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Equal Education, Race, Paying for College
Peer reviewedLaura W. Perna – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
As in other nations, higher education has many benefits for individual participants and for communities in the United States. But, the opportunity to attain higher education is unequal. To understand the forces that contribute to higher education attainment in the United States, this essay first provides a brief overview of the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, High School Graduates, College Freshmen, Educational Attainment
Wiggins, Afi Y. – Online Submission, 2015
This executive summary highlights results from the main report (published separately). A significantly higher percentage of AISD graduates enrolled in postsecondary institutions in 2014 (66%) than enrolled in 2013 (63%). Eighty-one percent of Class of 2013 graduates enrolled and persisted in a postsecondary institution 2 consecutive years after…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, School Districts, High School Graduates, Economically Disadvantaged
