Aiming for Equity: A Guide to Statewide Attainment Goals for Racial Equity Advocates

Autor/inn/en	Jones, Tiffany; Berger, Katie
Institution	Education Trust
Titel	Aiming for Equity: A Guide to Statewide Attainment Goals for Racial Equity Advocates
Quelle	(2019), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Equal Education; Educational Attainment; Racial Bias; Advocacy; Higher Education; Social Justice; Academic Degrees; Geographic Location; Educational Policy; Racial Differences; State Standards + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Sozialanwaltschaft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Rassenunterschied
Abstract	Driven by the widespread acknowledgement that the United States must increase the number of individuals with college degrees to fill workforce needs and secure the nation's position on the global economic stage, national and state leaders have set ambitious goals to increase "degree attainment" rates, or the share of adults with a college degree or postsecondary credential. At the national level, former President Obama set a "2020 Goal" of reaching a 60 percent postsecondary degree attainment rate among 25- to 34-year-olds by 2020, while the Lumina Foundation aims to achieve a goal of 60 percent of adults age 25 to 64 holding degrees or certificates by 2025. At the state level, policymakers and higher education leaders in 43 states have established statewide goals for postsecondary degree attainment, many of which are complemented by local and regional targets. While setting and working toward reaching college degree attainment goals are steps in the right direction, advocates for equity and racial justice must remain ever vigilant to ensure that these goals are designed with equity in mind and pursued with the same enthusiasm expressed during their adoption, and push policymakers and state leaders to incorporate an explicit and targeted focus on outcomes for students of color. This guide offers a primer on statewide college degree attainment goals and ideas for what to demand from policymakers to ensure students of color are prioritized as part of statewide higher education strategies. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01