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Meiselman, Akiva Yonah; Schudde, Lauren – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Developmental education (dev-ed) aims to help students acquire knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in college-level coursework. The traditional prerequisite approach to postsecondary dev-ed--where students take remedial courses that do not count toward a credential--appears to stymie progress toward a degree. At community colleges across the…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Remedial Mathematics, Community College Students, Outcomes of Education
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Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences in the probability of applying to college,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Applicants, Racial Differences, Ethnicity