By Andrew P. Kelly, Mark Schneider
The USA, lengthy thought of to have the simplest better schooling on this planet, now ranks 11th within the share of 25- to 34-year-olds with a school measure. As different nations have made dramatic earnings in measure attainment, the U.S. has enhanced extra slowly. In reaction, President Obama lately laid out a countrywide "completion schedule" with the aim of constructing the U.S. the best-educated kingdom on this planet by Read more...
Introduction / Andrew P. Kelly and Mark Schneider --
pt. 1: The demanding situations. expanding greater schooling attainment within the usa : demanding situations and possibilities / Arthur M. Hauptman --
Graduation charges at America's universities : what we all know and what we have to comprehend / Matthew M. Chingos --
pt. 2: The functionality and strength of sub-baccalaureate courses. Can group schools in achieving bold commencement objectives? / Thomas Bailey --
Certificate pathways to postsecondary luck and solid jobs / Brian Bosworth --
apprenticeships as a substitute path to talents and credentials / Diane Auer Jones --
pt. three: the connection among coverage and crowning glory. monetary reduction : a blunt software for expanding measure attainment / Eric Bettinger --
Remediation : the demanding situations of supporting underprepared scholars / Bridget Terry lengthy --
Equalizing credit and lucrative abilities : credits portability and bachelor's measure attainment / Josipa Roksa --
pt. four: the teachings from 3 states. The problem of scaling profitable coverage thoughts : a case learn of 3 Colorado neighborhood university procedure delivers / Elaine DeLott Baker --
Efforts to enhance productiveness : the effect of upper schooling reform in Texas / Geri Hockfield Malandra --
The Ohio event with outcomes-based investment / Richard Petrick --
Conclusion / Andrew P. Kelly and Mark Schneider.
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The Louisiana effort is also a good example of what I consider to be a broader problem: using rates as a policy goal when numbers will do a better job. In Louisiana and some other states that have built completion rates into the funding mechanism, there are generic problems associated with using rates as goals because it is almost always hard to define the denominator without controversy. In the specific case of completion rates, establishing the denominator includes these considerations: How does one count students who transfer from your school to another school and complete their degree there?
The attainment rate for all workers and younger workers also grew by at least 50 percent in the 1970s. But rather than being the result of Vietnam-era GI Bill recipients going to college, the data show the attainment increase was larger for females than males. 39 It would certainly be worth further exploration why this growth in attainment among younger female workers occurred in the 1970s and whether similar efforts might spur greater degree attainment among younger male workers in the future.
Both of these chapters to some extent grew out of a series of conversations in the late 1990s between higher education leaders and analysts in the United Kingdom and the United States, most especially a session in Colorado Springs in 1999 that focused on funding mechanisms. See David Longanecker, “Financing Tied to Postsecondary Outcomes: Examples of States,” pp. 113–22, and Arthur M. Hauptman, “Using Institutional Incentives to Improve Student Performance,” pp. 123–33, both in Kazis, Vargas, and Hoffman, Double the Numbers.
