“Dual enrollment” programs are the hottest reform in education. But they haven’t worked for lower-income students of color—until now.
Pell Grants
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The Memphis Post-COVID Community College Blues
In the best of times, poor students struggle against long odds to graduate—and these are not the best of times.
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America’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges
Our one-of-a-kind list of schools that help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.
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Near the Mexican Border, Texas University Uses Value and Smarts to Help Students Stay Enrolled
By keeping tuition low and offering generous aid to its Hispanic student body, The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley has lessons for the rest of the country.
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Pell Grants Should Cover Good Short-Term Worker Training Programs
Right now, the federal loan program won’t pay for many job training programs, even if they lead to great jobs. The answer is “short-term” Pell Grants to provide a pathway to the middle class.
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New Higher Education Policy Voice: Kelly Rosinger
Kelly Rosinger (@kelly_rosinger) is a first-year assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Penn State University. Before that, she was an Institute of Education Sciences postdoc at the University of Virginia, where she worked with Ben Castleman’s Nudge4 team applying behavioral interventions to improve the college choice process. An expert in experimental […]
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Downloadable Dataset of Pell Recipient Graduation Rates
Earlier this week, my blog post summarizing new data on Pell Grant recipients’ graduation rates at four-year colleges was released through the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center Chalkboard blog. I have since received several questions about the data and requests for detailed data for specific colleges, showing the interest within the higher education community for better […]
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Examining Trends in the Pell Grant Program
The U.S. Department of Education recently released its annual report on the federal Pell Grant program, which provides detailed information about the program’s finances and who is receiving grants. The most recent report includes data from the 2015-16 academic year, and I summarize the data and trends over the last two decades in this annual […]
