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Getting to Graduation: The Completion Agenda in Higher Education
Andrew P (Ed) Kelly
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Description for Getting to Graduation: The Completion Agenda in Higher Education
Hardback. The authors emphasize the need to rethink policies governing financial aid, remediation, and institutional funding to promote degree completion. Editor(s): Kelly, Andrew P.; Schneider, Mark. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8, 8 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNM; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584.
The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently laid out a national "completion agenda" with the goal of making the U.S. the best-educated nation in the world by the year 2020. "Getting to Graduation" explores the reforms that we must pursue to recover a position of international leadership in higher education as well as the obstacles to those reforms. ... Read more
The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently laid out a national "completion agenda" with the goal of making the U.S. the best-educated nation in the world by the year 2020. "Getting to Graduation" explores the reforms that we must pursue to recover a position of international leadership in higher education as well as the obstacles to those reforms. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
584g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421406220
SKU
V9781421406220
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About Andrew P (Ed) Kelly
Andrew P. Kelly is a research fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy. Mark Schneider is vice president of the American Institutes for Research and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy.
Reviews for Getting to Graduation: The Completion Agenda in Higher Education
Getting to Graduation is a must for educational studies collections or public policy discussion, enthusiastically recommended. Midwest Book Review A volume replete with nuanced perspectives on the opportunities and challenges higher education faces in the U.S... The book does an excellent job of covering a number of critical issues that bear on policies at the institutional, state, and federal levels. ... Read more