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Mary Fulton

Using Data to Increase College and Career Readiness: A Primer for State Policymakers - 0 views

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    Discusses actions for state policymakers to take to strengthen their P-20 data systems to increase college and career readiness. (Data Quality Campaign, January 2012)
Matt Smith

Follow the F Grades - 1 views

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    Details how institutional research, data collection can lead to programmatic changes that promote student success. Collecting data on course failure rates allowed administration and faculty to look critically at the effectiveness of several instructional delivery formats and introduce academic policies that support student retention.
Mary Fulton

On the Road to Success: How States Collaborate and Use Data to Improve Student Outcomes - 0 views

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    Presents the next step taken by the Cross-State Data Work Group: a comparative analysis of a comprehensive set of intermediate milestones and final measures of success that practitioners and policymakers can use to rethink and remake their approaches to increasing student achievement.(Jobs for the Future, February 2012)
Mary Fulton

Latino College Completion in 50 States - 0 views

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    Includes fact sheets detailing the current status of college completion among Latinos in each state. Each fact sheet includes state-level data on the population, representation among K-12 students, educational attainment of adults, multiple measures of equity gaps in degree attainment, and examples of promising practices for improving Latino college completion. (Excelencia in Education, April 2012)
Mary Fulton

High School Feedback: An Analysis of States' Current Efforts - 0 views

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    Summarizes states' efforts to provide information on success of K-12 students after high school, such as postsecondary enrollment, remediation, persistence and degree completion. (Data Quality Campaign, December 2011)
Mary Fulton

Pathways to Success: Integrating Learning with Life and Work to Increase National Colle... - 0 views

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    Highlights the challenges nontraditional students face to completing college credentials, best practices from states and colleges, and ideas of how the federal government could help, particularly by improving data collection and financial aid. (Advisory Committee on Student Financial Aid Assistance, February 2012)
Bruce Vandal

CEEP policy brief urges more intense effort to ensure more earn college degrees: IU New... - 0 views

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    Overview of research done by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University outlining the challenges to significantly increasing degree completion among underrepresented populations. Need for better data, program evaluation and financial aid are the key.
Bruce Vandal

College Persistence and Completion Strategies: Opportunities for Scaling Up - 0 views

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    Report from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy outlining the challenges to increase college completion rates in states. The report calls for improved financial aid, better data, improved program evaluation and innovative strategies to serve at-risk populations.
Bruce Vandal

Blog U.: Mapping the Terrain of Online Education - Digital Tweed - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Story on new data related to online learning.
Bruce Vandal

Views: Making Graduation Rates Matter - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Commentary by Cliff Adelman on the flaws in the U.S. Dept. of Education reporting on postsecondary graduation rates. It also explores the issue of a national unit record data system.
Bruce Vandal

Certificates Count: An Analysis | Complete College America - 0 views

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    Report from Complete College America documenting how states can take greater advantage of certificates to increase college completion. Includes data on state production of certificates.
Mary Fulton

Measuring Success by Degrees: The Status of College Completion in SREB States - 0 views

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    Provides college enrollment and graduation rates and other sets of data that SREB states can use to gauge progress in helping more people earn college degrees and career certificates. (SREB, December 2010)
Bruce Vandal

Education Interests Sign MOU - West Virginia Headline News and Talk Radio - 0 views

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    Story on how West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the Department of Education have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to create a longitudinal data system.
Bruce Vandal

Achieving the Dream - 0 views

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    Web site for the Achieving the Dream Initiative that is working with community colleges on how they can more effectively utilize data to drive institutional change.
Matt Smith

Reverse-Transfer Programs Reward Students and Colleges Alike - 0 views

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    Article describes the efforts at two universities to create reverse transfer data systems. These systems would reward community colleges where students accumulate substantial amounts of credit but transfer prior to completing a degree. Once students complete the requirements of an associate degree at university, the community college will award the student a degree.
Bruce Vandal

Higher Education and Jobs - 0 views

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    article in Forum Futures in 2009 from Anthony Carnevale discussing the need for better systems to align higher education and the workforce. Focuses on a data system to better track skill demands and training opportunities.
Mary Fulton

Technology and the Completion Agenda - 0 views

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    Discusses role of data analytics, information systems and technology in the college completion agenda. (Inside Higher Ed, 11/09/10)
Bruce Vandal

6-Year Graduation Rates: a 6-Minute Primer - Measuring Stick - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 1 views

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    Chronicle rundown of Fed's 6-yr graduation rate data.
Bruce Vandal

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/article_60e9edd7-d4d7-5cde-9ffe-fa3f3ebfc8... - 0 views

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    Piece in St. Louis Dispatch story on college completion. Cites data in Missouri.
Matt Smith

Closing the education gap - 0 views

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    The newspaper article from the Albany Times Union details the efforts of the State Assembly's Committee on Higher Education. The committee has reviewed college readiness and completion data from SUNY institutions. The committee drew a link between underprepared students and its influence on the workforce and state's economic viability.
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