Despite federal investments in student aid--plus tax credits exceeding $70 billion and state expenditures for institutions and students exceeding $65 billion--record high financial barriers erected by recent changes in tuition and financial aid have prevented hundreds of thousands of college-qualified high school graduates from enrolling in…

To help inform policymakers and the public about the progress of education in the United States, Congress has mandated that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produce an annual report, "The Condition of Education." This year's report presents 42 indicators on important topics and trends in U.S. education. These…

The impact of college on vocabulary and mathematics achievement test scores was studied. Identical tests were administered to students before they left high school and 7 years after high school graduation. The research design controlled for socioeconomic background and initial ability levels as measured in high school. Analyses for blacks and…

As the subtitle indicates, this is a psychosociological study of 10,000 high school graduates. It investigates the intellectual and nonintellectual development of California high school graduates and provides information about their patterns of college attendance and employment. The sample was followed up several times between 1960 and 1964 with…

Using College Board file information and a follow-up of 1981 high school graduates, the educational plans, educational outcomes, and other characteristics of students with different combinations of family incomes and test scores were compared in a study of the influence of those factors on educational outcomes. (MSE)

This annual report of direct entry high school graduates presents draw data for Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) from 1994 through 1999. Statistics include reference to: (1) changes in the size of high school graduation classes; (2) changes in the draw to the College of these graduates; and (3) campus of enrollment from individual high…

In an effort to understand the behavior and choices of Oregon's high school graduates, the Oregon University System conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of the Oregon high school graduating class of 2001. This biennial study, fifth in a series begun in 1993, seeks to identify the proportion of the graduating class that attended a…

To examine the relationship between parental involvement and college enrollment, this study draws on the work of Bourdieu (1986), Coleman (1988), and Lin (2001a, 2001b) to conceptualize parental involvement as a form of social capital that provides individuals with access to resources that may facilitate college enrollment. The conceptual model…

Four tables report on college-going rates for high school graduates in Oklahoma from 1989 to 1993. The report cites the Oklahoma State Department of Education and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education as data sources. The tables report on "Linear College-Going Rates" of those who go directly from Oklahoma high schools to…

Testimonies on H.R. 1400, the Veterans' Education Assistance Act of 1981, which calls for a new GI bill education and training program for the All-Volunteer Force, are presented. The nature of the GI Bill is reviewed both historically and within the context of the present needs of the All-Volunteer Force. H.R. 1400 is designed to provide education…

A STUDY OF THE 1953, 1954, AND 1955 WEST TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES WHO HAD COMPLETED 1 OR MORE YEARS OF VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE WAS CONDUCTED TO (1) DETERMINE PRESENT OCCUPATIONAL STATUS, (2) DETERMINE FACTORS RELATED TO OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE, (3) EVALUATE HIGH SCHOOL COURSES AND VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS AS RELATED TO OCCUPATIONS, AND (4)…

The 1971 findings presented here are based on the March 1971 Current Population Survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census. The educational data presented in this report relate to the number of school years completed by the population and do not provide any information on the quality of the education received. It has been found that the…

The American high school is a growing institution, and now includes more than 19,000 public high schools; 2,500 private high schools and academies; and more than 300 preparatory departments of universities and colleges. To a large majority of secondary students, the modern high school is their final school; to others it is a preparatory school, an…

Attitudes of a panel of 124 young adults in the Corner Brook (Newfoundland) area on a variety of politically relevant topics were examined over a two-year period to measure the possible effects of a university education. Generally, those who attended college did not change significantly in their attitudes, compared with high school graduates who…

In this paper we measure the impacts of tougher graduation requirements on course-taking patterns, college attendance and completion, and post-high school labor market outcomes for vocational concentrators and non-concentrators. Our main goal was to assess whether vocational education students were specifically affected (positively or negatively)…