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White, Susan C. – Physics Teacher, 2016
We have been looking at two different numbers that have been used to describe the availability of physics in U.S. high schools: 60% and 95%. Last month we noted that the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) includes over 7,000 more public schools in the denominator than American Institute of Physics (AIP) Statistics does.…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Surveys, Physics
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Graham, Linda J. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
This study analyses exclusion, enrolment cancellation, and suspension rates in government schools in the Australian state of Queensland to investigate the impact of legislation to extend principals' disciplinary powers. Results suggest that the provision of alternative disciplinary options, including Saturday detentions and community service,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suspension, Social Isolation, Discipline
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Dragoset, Lisa; Thomas, Jaime; Herrmann, Mariesa; Deke, John; James-Burdumy, Susanne; Lee Luca, Dara – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program received more than $3 billion with the goal of substantially improving student achievement. The SIG program's funding was to help states turn around the nation's persistently lowest-achieving schools using one of four school intervention…
Descriptors: Grants, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Causey, J.; Lee, S.; Ryu, M.; Scheetz, A.; Shapiro, D. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2022
As the eleventh in the Completing College series, this report updates the six-year college completion rates nationally and by state, by tracking the enrollment and completion outcomes for the fall 2016 cohort of beginning college students through June 2022. The report also features national eight-year completion outcomes for the fall 2013 and fall…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, College Students, College Graduates, Enrollment
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Bland, Jennifer A.; Wojcikiewicz, Steven K.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Wei, Wesley – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
This report summarizes teacher workforce challenges and recent initiatives in Texas that are shaping the state of the educator workforce in important ways. Ongoing teacher shortages have led to the creation of a wide range of pathways into the profession, featuring varying types and amounts of training. A growing body of research demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Pathways, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence
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Ghignoni, Emanuela – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
The Italian university system has long been characterised by high non-completion rates, though aggregate data show a slight reduction of dropouts in recent years. The most straightforward theoretical explanation for this lies in the lowering opportunity cost of studying due to the financial and economic crisis. Nonetheless, this interpretation is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate
Denning, Jeffrey T. – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
This paper explores the effects of community college tuition reductions on student enrollment decisions and graduation probabilities. The study leverages changes in community college taxing districts in Texas. The paper examines five community colleges who annexed municipalities into their taxing districts from 1994 to 2012. The study uses a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tuition, Paying for College, Two Year College Students
Causey, J.; Harnack-Eber, A.; Ryu, M.; Shapiro, D. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2021
This report provides new fall 2020 college enrollment rate estimates for recent high school graduates. The preliminary results published in December 2020 (see ED609848) have been updated with the addition of approximately 50 percent more data from high schools and colleges and restated to correct a process error. This error resulted in an…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Postsecondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Enrollment Trends
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Gagnon, Douglas; Liu, Jing; Cherasaro, Trudy – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2021
By providing students with an opportunity to take college courses and earn college credits while in high school, dual enrollment programs effectively increase college access, enrollment, and degree attainment. Such programs might be particularly beneficial for high school students who might be less likely to go to college, including students from…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, Access to Education
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Gagnon, D.; Liu, J.; Cherasaro, T. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2021
By providing students with an opportunity to take college courses and earn college credits while in high school, dual enrollment programs effectively increase college access, enrollment, and degree attainment. Such programs might be particularly beneficial for high school students who might be less likely to go to college, including students from…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, Access to Education
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Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a larger study exploring patterns in dual enrollment access and participation for the 2017/18 school year in the REL Central states (Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming). The study also explored how dual enrollment access and participation varied with school…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, Access to Education
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Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2021
The "Understanding Access to and Participation in Dual Enrollment by Locale and Income Level" study explored patterns in dual enrollment access and participation for the 2017/18 school year in the REL Central states (Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming). The report also revealed how dual…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, Access to Education
National Student Clearinghouse, 2018
This Snapshot Report is based on the cohort of fall 2011 entering students extracted for NSC Signature Report #14: A National View of Student Completion Rates. There were two major changes from prior versions of the report on completion rates that pertained to cohort definitions: (1) All-years look-back for prior enrollments: Data limitations in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Success, Part Time Students, Full Time Students
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Guerrero, Alicia; Avilés, César; Ruano, Maria Alejandra – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2021
A free higher education policy was implemented in Ecuador in 2008. This article analyzes whether the effect of this policy has contributed to eliminating access barriers through the evaluation of a set of socioeconomic, demographic variables, and others related to educational policies concerning the admission process implemented in 2012. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Barrat, Vanessa Ximenes; Skjoldhorne, Susann; Finkelstein, Neal – WestEd, 2021
Offering "Early Start" programs in the summer before students start their first year of college is one of the strategies that the California State University (CSU) system has used to support incoming students who may not be ready for college-level work in mathematics or written communication. In 2017, the CSU system began implementing a…
Descriptors: State Universities, College Readiness, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
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