New reports from IRHE and Penn AHEAD are cited in this article on the cost of college.
In response to her new study, Joni Finney comments on college affordability in Maryland and Virginia.
Laura Perna says the President's plan signals that "the jobs being created in the US economy now largely require some college education. Not necessarily a degree from a four-year institution. But definitely more than a high school diploma."
According to Richard Ingersoll, shortages are more about the failure to retain veteran teachers.
Resource constraints and structural failures often limit the choices of students from lower-income families to the local or online, non-selective or for-profit postsecondary educational institutions, says Laura Perna.
In this radio program, Richard Ingersoll comments on teachers and school violence.
In 2014, just 10% of dependent family members who said they received a bachelor’s degree by the time they were 24 years old came from families in the lowest income quartile, according to a study by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington, D.C. and PennAHEAD.
In this podcast, Marybeth Gasman discusses why minority-serving institutions may be the best fit for some college-bound students.