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ERIC Number: ED581590
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Feb-6
Pages: 2
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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Integrating Postsecondary Education Interventions to Help Low-Income Students Succeed. Testimony of Alexander Mayer, Deputy Director, Postsecondary Education, MDRC, Before the California State Assembly Higher Education Committee and the Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance
Mayer, Alexander
MDRC
This document presents the testimony of MDRC's Alex Mayer, the Deputy Director for Postsecondary Education at MDRC. The three points that Alex Mayer emphasizes in this testimony before the California State Assembly Higher Education Committee and the Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance on integrating postsecondary education interventions to help low income students succeed are: (1) short-term interventions tend to have modest, short-term effects. While this means they sometimes fall short of long-term goals, the findings provide lessons to build on, and many of the programs are helping students advance while the programs are operating; (2) Second, it is possible to dramatically improve student outcomes; and (3) Third, combining and integrating multiple evidence-based strategies to address multiple factors can be highly effective. A key lesson is that combining and integrating multiple strategies to address multiple factors can be highly effective. As California revisits its postsecondary plan to dramatically improve college completion and considers the consolidation of existing programs, there is a great opportunity to integrate resources and align them around evidence.
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Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
Education Level: Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: MDRC
Identifiers - Location: California
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