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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A report commissioned by Greater Washington Research at Brookings and DC Appleseed underscores the need for a strong community college in the District of Columbia. The report, conducted by JBL Associates, recognizes the steps already taken by the new Community College of the District of Columbia (CCDC) and recommends that the city support CCDC in moving towards independence from the University of the District of Columbia, with its own administration, board of trustees, budget and academic accreditation.
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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT
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- September 16, 2009, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
On September 16, the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings hosted an event to discuss Crossing the Finish Line (Princeton University Press, October 2009), which examines degree attainment at America's public universities. President Obama has committed the nation to the goal of producing the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.
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Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Higher education is fast becoming a global enterprise as students and professors hopscotch from nation to nation. Yet in this new world of mobility and competition, challenges to America’s educational primacy are inevitable—and international rankings are the means by which those challenges are most likely to arrive, writes Ben Wildavsky. A process is already under way to expand international rankings beyond the metrics of reputation and research to include measures of classroom learning. However, this could be both traumatic and useful for the American higher education system.
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Tue, 26 May 2009 14:00:00 GMT
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- May 26, 2009, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
President Obama has committed to the goal of having the world's highest rate of college graduates by 2020. The funding and delivery of student financial aid will be critical to reaching that goal. To that end, the president has announced plans for an overhaul of the federal college loan system. The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings hosted an event to explore ways of improving the effectiveness of student financial aid.
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Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The detailed FY 2010 federal budget reveals many elements of the administration’s strategy to achieve needed reforms in schooling and worker skills. Alan Berube analyzes the significant steps in the departments of Education and Labor budgets toward a national economic strategy that invests strategically in human capital to improve our collective prosperity.
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Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to high school reforms, Ron Haskins and James Kemple examine the steps high schools should take to help low-income students prepare for and succeed in college. Specifically, they argue, high schools should boost students’ subject matter knowledge and study skills and counsel students on how to select colleges and obtain financial aid.
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Thu, 14 May 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- May 14, 2009, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
On May 14, The Future of Children, a joint project between Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, will release a policy brief discussing the steps high schools should take to help low-income students prepare for postsecondary education. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), the former superintendent of the Denver schools, will deliver the keynote address.
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Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Many low-income students miss out on college because they don’t know how much it actually costs or how to get access to billions of dollars in financial aid, says Ron Haskins. That’s why improving the equality of educational opportunity—a traditional American value—is one key to promoting economic mobility for disadvantaged students.
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Fri, 08 May 2009 10:21:07 GMT
Alan Berube says community colleges offer educational opportunities to a growing number of students and are a critical part of the national economy and our metropolitan areas.
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Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
To renew America’s status as the world’s leader in college attainment, the federal government needs to transform America’s community colleges and equip them for the 21st century. This report outlines a structure for this long-overdue investment and proposes to establish national goals and a related performance measurement system; provide resources to drive college performance toward those goals; and stimulate greater innovation to enhance the quality of sub-baccalaureate education.
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Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Alan Berube analyzes how President Obama's first budget places hopeful new emphasis on graduating more students from college. Community colleges enroll increasing numbers of students, but for several reasons fail to graduate most of them—particularly those from lower-income backgrounds—through to a degree or certificate.
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Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Enrollment in community colleges is surging, driven by a tough economy and increasing skills requirements for gainful employment. Sarah Goldrick-Rab and Alan Berube explain that this environment, as well as longer-term economic growth imperatives, calls for a focused federal commitment to community colleges in order to boost educational attainment.
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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Although many ideas have been floated for the incoming administration’s stimulus package, Gary Burtless urges that funds to be used for the nation’s worker training system, which can help equip unemployed and underemployed workers find good jobs when the economy begins to recover and can reduce the number of jobless workers who are looking for work.
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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
A Metropolitan Economy Initiative examination of the impact of policies to expand health care and higher finds that such a strategy would raise the earnings of metropolitan residents by roughly the same amount as conventional business tax incentives.
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
David Mundel and Lois Rice discuss the results of a recent experiment about the effect of grant programs on college attendance among lower-income youth.
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:30:00 GMT
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- November 21, 2008, 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
On November 21, the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings hosted David Arnold, president of the American University in Cairo, for a discussion on the future of American-style higher education in the Middle East. The discussion will highlight the growing ties between U.S. colleges and universities and their counterparts in the Middle East and the role of such institutions in promoting social and economic development in the region.
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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
To resolve dramatic disparities in educational achievement and ensure future American workers are globally competitive, the federal government needs to change the game by catalyzing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in public education. A new office within the Department of Education should partner with the private sector, philanthropy, and state/local governments to scale up successful educational entrepreneurs and seed transformative educational innovations.
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Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Record numbers of students aspire to higher education. But, are far too many young people with inherent intellectual limitations being pushed to advance academically when they are “just not smart enough?” Ben Wildavsky argues that this deterministic vision of education, where IQ scores matter more than teaching, curriculum or effort, makes way for what is essentially an IQ-elite.
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Although the federal government dedicated nearly $40 billion to funding student loans in 2006, only 60 percent of potential students from low-income families attend college, compared with 90 percent from high-income families. Sima J. Gandhi argues that enrollment rates are lower than they could be because potential students undervalue loan subsidies, which are delivered after graduation instead of up front when a student enrolls and incurs costs.
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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
To unleash greater local and national prosperity, U.S. metropolitan leaders need to be better equipped to deal with today’s increasingly dynamic economic, social and environmental realities. This summary outlines a new federal-state-metro partnership that provides metropolitan actors the support, capacity, tools and discretion they need to resolve key challenges; grow in more productive, inclusive, and sustainable ways; and, ultimately, to maximize America’s overall prosperity.
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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
To unleash greater local and national prosperity U.S. metropolitan leaders need to be better equipped to deal with today’s increasingly dynamic economic, social and environmental realities. This report calls for a new federal-state-metro partnership that provides metropolitan actors the support, capacity, tools and discretion they need to resolve key challenges; grow in more productive, inclusive, and sustainable ways; and, ultimately, to maximize America’s overall prosperity.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Of the 50 largest cities in the United States, Washington, D.C. is the only one without a fully fledged community college. Washington needs a community college in order to provide all District residents with increased opportunities for employment and further education in an affordable and flexible manner, argue the authors of this report, who offer three options for creating a community college in the nation's capital.
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Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
As technologies have grown more sophisticated and emerging industries have become more high-tech, universities have become more important players in the processes of invention, innovation, and commercialization. Robert E. Litan, Lesa Mitchell and E.J. Reedy anticipate universities playing an even more important role in the innovation process in the future.
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In 1997, Congress enacted a number of tax benefits directed toward helping middle- and upper-middle income groups meet rising college costs. This shift in goals and strategies raises concerns about the fairness and effectiveness of the evolving federal approach to higher education. This policy brief analyzes who benefits from the major direct spending program, Pell grants, and the three tax subsidies that most closely resemble grants, the Hope and Lifetime Learning credits and the deduction for tuition and fees.
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Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:30:00 GMT
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- March 29, 2007, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
For higher education, the next President should mount a determined effort, in concert with states and local school districts, to boost the academic performance of low achievers by taking steps outlined in this paper.
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Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The federal system of student financial aid is broken. Information about aid eligibility is hidden behind a thicket of complicated paperwork, and is also highly uncertain. Concrete information arrives just a few months before or even months after students enroll in college— far too late to affect enrollment decisions. Economic theory and evidence suggest that the costs of complexity and uncertainty are high: many high school students won't even start on the path to college if they aren't certain they can afford it. Capable students teetering on the margin of college entry are thus discouraged from going to college by its price, even though aid is available to them. This is a waste of human potential.
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Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:00:00 GMT
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- September 19, 2006, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation at the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities Annual Convention, Jennifer Vey describes how Pennsylvania's higher education institutions are a major competitive asset for the state and its localities.
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Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation, Amy Liu describes why the high number of higher education institutions in the state of Pennsylvania is a competitive asset to the state and recommends ways the state can better leverage the role of higher ed as partners in achie
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this paper, Jennifer Vey surveys Pennsylvania's higher education landscape and its economic impact, proposing a number of policy approaches to boost town and gown collaboration.
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Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:00:00 GMT
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- April 29, 2005, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
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Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly (October 2004)
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Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Thomas J. Kane and Peter R. Orszag (9/10/03)
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Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Policy Brief #124 by Thomas J. Kane and Peter R. Orszag. (September 2003)
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Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This survey analyzes Census data from 1980-2000 and finds that the Washington region has one of the most highly educated populations in the country--42 percent of the adult population has at least a bachelor's degree, and 19 percent have graduate deg
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Sun, 06 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Henry J. Aaron and Melissa A. Cox (4/06/03)
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Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT
An Oped by Bruce Katz, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, in The Philadelphia Daily News, February 14, 1999