Getting to Graduation (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
344
Utgivningsdatum
2012-10-27
Förlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Medarbetare
Kelly, Andrew P. (ed.), Schneider, Mark (ed.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
black and white 8 Line drawings
Illustrationer
8 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensioner
229 x 157 x 25 mm
Vikt
568 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781421406220

Getting to Graduation

The Completion Agenda in Higher Education

av Andrew P Kelly, Mark Schneider
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2012-10-27
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The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently laid out a national "completion agenda" with the goal of making the U.S. the best-educated nation in the world by the year 2020. "Getting to Graduation" explores the reforms that we must pursue to recover a position of international leadership in higher education as well as the obstacles to those reforms. This new completion agenda puts increased pressure on institutions to promote student success and improve institutional productivity in a time of declining public revenue. In this volume, scholars of higher education and public policymakers describe promising directions for reform. They argue that it is essential to redefine postsecondary education and to consider a broader range of learning opportunities - beyond the research university and traditional bachelor degree programs-to include community colleges, occupational certificate programs, and apprenticeships. The authors also emphasize the need to rethink policies governing financial aid, remediation, and institutional funding to promote degree completion.
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Getting to Graduation is a must for educational studies collections or public policy discussion, enthusiastically recommended. Midwest Book Review A volume replete with nuanced perspectives on the opportunities and challenges higher education faces in the U.S... The book does an excellent job of covering a number of critical issues that bear on policies at the institutional, state, and federal levels. -- Joseph Kitchen Teachers College Record The book provides a useful synthesis of policy, practice and perhaps, most importantly, standards for rigorous research to assess the viability and prospective mechanisms for achieving ambitious policy goals. -- Jennifer Nicole Nailos & Victor M.H. Borden Review of Higher Education

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Andrew P. Kelly is a research fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy. Mark Schneider is vice president of the American Institutes for Research and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy.

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Preface Introduction Part I: The Challenges Chapter 1. Increasing Higher Education Attainment in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities Chapter 2. Graduation Rates at America's Universities: What We Know and What We Need to Know Part II: The Performance and Potential of Sub-Baccalaureate Programs Chapter 3. Can Community Colleges Achieve Ambitious Graduation Goals? Chapter 4. Certificate Pathways to Postsecondary Success and Good Jobs Chapter 5. Apprenticeships as an Alternative Route to Skills and Credentials Part III: The Relationship between Policy and Completion Chapter 6. Financial Aid: A Blunt Instrument for Increasing Degree Attainment Chapter 7. Remediation: The Challenges of Helping Underprepared Students Chapter 8. Equalizing Credits and Rewarding Skills: Credit Portability and Bachelor's Degree Attainment Part IV: The Lessons from Three States Chapter 9. The Challenge of Scaling Successful Policy Innovations: A Case Study of Three Colorado Community College System Grants Chapter 10. Efforts to Improve Productivity: The Impact of Higher Education Reform in Texas Chapter 11. The Ohio Experience with Outcomes-Based Funding Conclusion List of Contributors Index

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