A national survey administered to more than 2,000 currently enrolled U.S. college students finds that nearly one in five are uncertain about their plans for re-enrolling in the fall, or definitely are not going at all. However, 82 percent of students say they will be able to complete all or most of their spring coursework as planned, while just 5 percent indicated they will not be able to complet
Complete report School‐based interventions targeting students with, or at risk of, academic difficulties in Grades 7–12 have on average positive effects on standardised tests in reading and maths. The most effective interventions have the potential to considerably decrease the gap between at‐risk and not‐at‐risk students. Effects vary substantially between interventions, however, and the evidence
The national six-year college completion rate continues to grow. But there is a disadvantage in students who first enroll on a part-time basis, with elevated stop-out rates from the very first year. This report shows that more than half of them (51%) stopped out by the end of year six, nearly two times larger than full-time starters (26%). The stop-out rate has gone up for part-time starters over
New research has demonstrated that the key to implementing successful reform in low-performing schools is hiring and retaining effective principals and teachers. These findings, reported in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), also note that teacher turnover as well as student mobility and chronic absenteeism undermine potentially positive effects from these reforms. The study, led
A new report from the Heritage Foundation argues that public education special interest groups, particularly teachers’ unions, are detrimentally promoting excessive federal relief for education. Such spending, the report
