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Two-Year College Financial Aid Default Rates: Relative Density Analysis

In August, 2012, I summarized my study of federal financial aid default rates for four-year institutions. The following is a summary of the distribution of federal financial aid default rates for public, private nonprofit (NP) and private for-profit (FP) two-year institutions. The data for … Continue reading

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Proprietary Students Fall Way Behind in Repaying Student Loans

A couple days ago I shared U.S. Department of Education data indicating 193  vocational programs fail the ‘gainful employment’ test, all of them in the for-profit sector of higher education. The Department of Education’s “Gainful Employment” database provides another rich … Continue reading

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Distributional Analysis of Pell Grants among the Sectors of Higher Education and Why It’s Important

Pell grants are extremely important assets for providing students opportunities to enter and complete higher education. How are these assets distributed among the three sectors of higher education — public, private not-for-proft and private for-profit institutions? Let’s begin be examining … Continue reading

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Baccalaureate Retention Rates

In two previous posts (1, 2) we utilized the Chronicle of High Education’s database to analyze factors related to baccalaureate graduation rates. In this post we will use the same database to briefly assess factors associated with freshman retention rates … Continue reading

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Graduation Rates in Private For-Profit Sector Lag Behind Public and Private Not-For-Profit Sectors

In the previous post we examined baccalaureate graduation rates, controlling for a number of covariates. Utilizing the same Chronicle of Higher Education database we will focus on the distribution of baccalaureate graduation rates by sector of control — public, private … Continue reading

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Distribution of District Graduation Rates Based on Comparison Groups

In an earlier post, Class Size Matters for Graduation Outcomes, I pointed to my own research demonstrating school districts with lower pupil-teacher ratios favorably differentiate themselves with higher graduation rates from districts with higher pupil-teacher ratios and lower graduation rates. … Continue reading

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Federal Financial Aid Default Rates

The New York Post reports, “Total student debt is at an all-time high — and may top $1 trillion this year. Meanwhile, default rates are rising alarmingly.” That’s right, $1 trillion. The primary purpose of this study focuses on differential … Continue reading

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Graduation Rate Inequalities in Higher Education

Graduation outcomes have come to the forefront in American higher education (National Governors Association, 2010; Lumina Foundation, 2009; U. S. Department of Education, 2006, The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2010).  Completion rates in higher education have … Continue reading

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