Is There a Better Way to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College?
Event | May 7, 2013
Sandy Baum
Sandy Baum, George Washington University: We have to stop thinking that money is the answer. Merely giving students more money to pay for college won’t necessarily guarantee academic success or an uptick in graduation rates.
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Expert Q&A | May 7, 2013
Isabel V. Sawhill, Ron Haskins
Isabel Sawhill: It’s shocking that the U.S. spends $100 billion subsidizing college grant programs and student loans with no clear evidence that these expenditures actually increase college graduation rates.
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Is There a Better Way to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College?
Event | May 7, 2013
Beth Akers
Beth Akers: We need to accept that all students won’t be better off by going to college.
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Is There a Better Way to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College?
Event | May 7, 2013
Ron Haskins
Ron Haskins: Disadvantaged college students are often failed early in their academic careers. Our findings show that many K-12 school systems produce students who aren’t ready for college.
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Is There a Better Way to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College?
Event | May 7, 2013
Harry Holzer
Harry Holzer, Georgetown University: Colleges need to be responsive to the needs of disadvantaged students, meaning they should provide more career counseling and a curriculum that would better prepare this population for the labor market.
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Is There a Better Way to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College?
Event | May 7, 2013
Cecilia Rouse
Cecilia Rouse, Princeton University: One of the first things we need to do in order to help disadvantaged students succeed in college is to define what it means to be “college ready.”
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Is There a Better Way to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College?
Event | May 7, 2013
Andrea Venezia
Andrea Venezia, California State University: The effort to help disadvantaged college students is impaired because there is no consensus or methodically constructed programs addressing which students to serve, the strategy and the desired outcomes.
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Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities
Event | September 20, 2012
Isabel V. Sawhill
Isabel Sawhill: Success begets success and clearly, we need to ensure that disadvantaged children succeed in school and get the help they need to remain successful throughout their academic years.
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23 school vouchers
Event | August 23, 2012
Matthew M. Chingos
Matthew M. Chingos: Our study of New York City students shows that use of vouchers closed the gap between Hispanic and African-American students who enrolled full-time in a four-year college.
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The Role of Distributed Power Systems in the U.S. Electricity Sector
Event | October 31, 2011
George Shultz
George Shultz, The Hoover Institution: We need to create energy where we use it and we have to avoid buying energy from governments and sources that could use the money we pay them to imperil our national security.
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Economic Mobility in America
March 20, 2008
Ron Haskins
There are many factors to consider when looking at economic mobility but, Ron Haskins says, a college degree is a virtual guarantee of upward economic mobility.