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Baum, Sandy; Little, Kathleen; Ma, Jennifer; Sturtevant, Anne – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2012
Like the federal Pell Grant program, need-based state grant programs are designed to increase access to higher education among low- and moderate-income students. A growing body of research indicates that adequate funding is a necessary but not sufficient condition for successfully achieving this goal. Aid programs that are easy to understand and…
Descriptors: Taxes, Income, Program Effectiveness, Federal Government
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McDermott, Kathryn A.; DeBray, Elizabeth; Frankenberg, Erica – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: On June 28, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in "Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1" (PICS) that school districts not currently under court order for racial desegregation could not, under most circumstances, use race as a criterion for assigning students to schools. Purpose: In this…
Descriptors: Racial Integration, Race, Political Influences, School Districts
Mohapatra, Manindra Kumar – 1981
Data from a self-administered questionnaire survey of all 188 high school juniors and seniors who attended the only high school in a rural county in Kentucky were utilized to explore various dimensions of youth political culture in that county. The study was part of a continuing effort to understand and analyze the political culture and…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Programs, Foreign Policy, Government Role