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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Competing Risks or Different Pathways? An Event History Analysis of the Relationship between Financial Aid and Educational Outcomes for Latinos
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Gross, Jacob P. K.; Torres, Vasti – Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice, 2010
Using a competing risks event history model this study explores the effects of differentiated forms of financial aid on the postsecondary enrollment patterns of Latino college students in Indiana. Much of the prior research on financial aid has employed cross-sectional methods, which assume that the effects of aid do not vary across time. This…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Outcomes of Education, Risk, Models
Cascading in Higher Education: Investigating the Impact of Institutional Stratification on Educational Opportunity in America
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Bastedo, Michael N.; Jaquette, Ozan; Harris, Nathan F. – Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice, 2009
Among scholars of social stratification, the most important question about expanding postsecondary education is whether it reduces inequality by creating opportunities for disadvantaged students or whether it increases inequality by concentrating opportunities among those already privileged (Shavit, 2007). This discussion is important because of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Background