Sentences with phrase «focus on college completion»

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The Education Trust — New York Applauds Tuition - Free Plan for Advancing a College - Going Culture for All New York Students, While Calling for Expanding Focus on Access, Affordability and Completion NEW YORK — As New York leaders work to finalize the state budget including Governor Cuomo's landmark tuition - free degree proposal for middle - class...

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

Focusing on the lower college completion rates for boys and blaming K — 12 educators is too easy.

Much of DeMaria's 30 - year career has focused on school finance and promoting higher student achievement, college readiness and completion, and school choice for families.

Part of the answer to my colleague Mike Petrilli's «Single - minded Focus» question the other day about the depressing college completion data is in Sam Dillon's recent front page New York Times story on the success of incentives (i.e. $ $ $) programs in getting poor kids into — and passing — Advanced Placement courses.

Some of her projects have included: «Improving Access to College Information and Financial Aid,» a study on the effects of simplifying the financial aid application process; «Understanding Barriers and Examining Interventions,» a series of research studies focused on college enrollment and completion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and «Addressing the Problem of Insufficient High School Preparation,» which focuses on state efforts to regulate college remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remedCollege Information and Financial Aid,» a study on the effects of simplifying the financial aid application process; «Understanding Barriers and Examining Interventions,» a series of research studies focused on college enrollment and completion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and «Addressing the Problem of Insufficient High School Preparation,» which focuses on state efforts to regulate college remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remedcollege enrollment and completion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and «Addressing the Problem of Insufficient High School Preparation,» which focuses on state efforts to regulate college remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remedcollege remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remediation.

During the school year, Future Corps students lead their peers through the college application process, train faculty and students on the latest mobile college app technologies, and organize, design and conduct three peer - to - peer campaigns focused on college applications, FAFSA completion efforts and a «Big Idea» movement addressing a pressing community need.

«This brief offers relevant, scholarly research directly from the education community to help college access practitioners mitigate the problem of low college completion rates, especially among underrepresented student groups,» said IHEP President Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D. «With an increased national focus on postsecondary degree completion, understanding the role of social supports can be the key to providing college access practitioners with strategies to create comprehensive structures and increase self - efficacy, which in turn, improves student success.»

Kyle P. Westbrook is the founding executive director of Partnership for College Completion, a nonprofit that champions policies and practices focused on equity in higher education.

PCC's efforts are focused on policy and practice solutions to the ongoing crisis of low college completion rates, persistent achievement gaps that exist along racial and socioeconomic lines, and college affordability.

The College Smarts program provides interactive lessons focused on building parent / child communication, the importance of high school completion, higher education, financial aid and college prepaCollege Smarts program provides interactive lessons focused on building parent / child communication, the importance of high school completion, higher education, financial aid and college prepacollege preparation.

The «College Smarts» and «Money Smarts» programs provide interactive lessons focused on building parent / child communication, the importance of high school completion, higher education, financial literacy and college prepaCollege Smarts» and «Money Smarts» programs provide interactive lessons focused on building parent / child communication, the importance of high school completion, higher education, financial literacy and college prepacollege preparation.

Prominent foundations such as Lumina, Kellogg and Ford have begun focusing on community colleges, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced it would spend up to half a billion dollars over the next four years on a college completion initiative.

March 21, 2017 — A new report College Completion: Focus on the Finish Line from the National Center for Developmental Education calls for closer collaboration between community colleges, public schools, and community services, improved teaching and learning and fully integrated courses and student support services as three main phases of college sCollege Completion: Focus on the Finish Line from the National Center for Developmental Education calls for closer collaboration between community colleges, public schools, and community services, improved teaching and learning and fully integrated courses and student support services as three main phases of college scollege success.

He concluded his remarks with a description of the department's request to Congress for $ 1 billion to fund a higher education Race to the Top competition, which will incentivize states to invest in postsecondary education, encourage universities to make tuition more affordable, and focus stakeholders on turning a culture of college access into a culture of completion.

Traditional research on college completion has focused on factors such as socioeconomic status and high school academic preparation, but less is known about how psychological factors predict college outcomes.

Research on the performance of charter school students should not focus exclusively on standardized test scores but analyze other outcomes as well, including participation in advanced courses, graduation rates, and college attendance and completion.

Beginning in junior year, students focus on resume creation, ACT preparation, college application essay writing, data - driven college research, completion of admissions applications to at least nine colleges, completion of scholarship and FAFSA applications, and support of undocumented students in DACA enrollment and TASFA applications.