Congress Must Address Dismal Dropout Rates. Forum: Should Congress Link Higher-Ed Funding to Graduation Rates? Debating the Use of Degree Completion as an Accountability Metric

Autor/in	Erickson, Lanae
Titel	Congress Must Address Dismal Dropout Rates. Forum: Should Congress Link Higher-Ed Funding to Graduation Rates? Debating the Use of Degree Completion as an Accountability Metric
Quelle	In: Education Next, 20 (2020) 1, S.69 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Federal Aid; Graduation Rate; Educational Legislation; Federal Legislation; Student Financial Aid; Educational Policy; Performance; Accountability; Academic Standards; Political Influences; Dropout Rate; School Responsibility + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bundesrecht; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Achievement; Leistung; Verantwortung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss
Abstract	Completing a college degree, or failing to, is a major factor in determining whether a person will have an economically stable future. While it might have been possible a few decades ago to graduate from high school, enter the job market, and find a career that enabled one to earn a solid middle-class life, that path to success has been almost completely foreclosed by the changing nature of the nation's Yet right now, a student who enrolls in higher education has about a fifty-fifty chance of graduating. Society can no longer afford to overlook that fact--or act as if it is inevitable. Completion matters to students; it matters to taxpayers; and there is a lot that institutions and the government can do to address the nation's dismal higher-education dropout rates. In this forum, Lanae Erickson of the think tank Third Way lays out the case for using federal leverage and other means to get institutions to boost their completion rates. [For "Should Congress Link Higher-Ed Funding to Graduation Rates? Debating the Use of Degree Completion as an Accountability Metric," see EJ1235168.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01