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Meeting the Promise and Challenges of "Free College": Research and Practical Insights from a Community College Scholarship Program
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Wang, Yunwei; Wang, Xueli; Wagner, Brit; Romero-Reyes, Joseph – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
This chapter illustrates the potential promise and complexities of free college initiatives from the perspective of administrators, faculty, staff, and students who are involved in a scholarship program at a small Midwestern community college. Based on two waves of interviews conducted in 2019 and 2021 respectively, we found that, while largely…
Descriptors: Tuition, Educational Finance, Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges
College Promise Programs as Symbolic Politics
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Monaghan, David B.; Attewell, Paul A. – Sociology of Education, 2023
Since the Tennessee Promise's 2014 launch, "free college" or "Promise" programs have proliferated rapidly and converged on design features: a "last-dollar" award and community college applicability. Researchers who study these programs' effects generally presume they are tuition-reducing endeavors. In contrast, we…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tuition, Student Costs, Politics of Education
Transforming an Urban School System: Progress of New Haven School Change and New Haven Promise Education Reforms (2010-2013). Research Report
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Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Bozick, Robert; Daugherty, Lindsay; Scherer, Ethan; Singh, Reema; Suárez, Mónica Jacobo; Ryan, Sarah – RAND Corporation, 2014
In 2009, the City of New Haven and New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) announced a sweeping K-12 educational reform, New Haven School Change. The district had three primary goals for School Change: (1) close the gap between the performance of NHPS students' and Connecticut students' averages on state tests, (2) cut the high school dropout rate in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Gap
Transforming an Urban School System: Progress of New Haven School Change and New Haven Promise Education Reforms (2010-2013). Technical Appendixes
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Scherer, Ethan; Ryan, Sarah; Daugherty, Lindsay; Schweig, Jonathan David; Bozick, Robert; Gonzalez, Gabriella C. – RAND Corporation, 2014
In 2009, the City of New Haven and New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) announced a sweeping K-12 educational reform, New Haven School Change. The district had three primary goals for School Change: (1) close the gap between the performance of NHPS students' and Connecticut students' averages on state tests, (2) cut the high school dropout rate in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Gap
New Haven Promise: An Early Look at College Preparation, Access, and Enrollment of New Haven Public School Students (2010-2013). Brief
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Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Bozick, Robert; Daugherty, Lindsay; Scherer, Ethan; Singh, Reema; Suárez, Mónica Jacobo; Ryan, Sarah; Schweig, Jonathan – RAND Corporation, 2013
In New Haven, stakeholders looking to enhance the city's economic development, attract more residents, reduce crime and incarceration, and improve residents' quality of life embarked on a new scholarship program that seeks to build a college-going culture for local students and the community as an avenue to achieve these goals. Recognizing that…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Gap