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Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2019
In 2013, the Arizona State University (ASU) Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) was awarded an Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant through the U.S. Department of Education. The district applied with an ambitious grant designed to innovate programming for a total of six schools: two elementary (one Kindergarten through grade 5; one Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Program Effectiveness
Swail, Watson Scott; Fung-Angarita, Maly – Educational Policy Institute, 2018
The issue of student retention and graduation from postsecondary institutions has grown in stature over the past decade. While the last 40 years of federal and state policies have focused largely on access to college, there is now a very real interest in not only getting students into college but also helping them earn baccalaureate and other…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Postsecondary Education, College Students, School Holding Power
Raisman, Neal A. – Educational Policy Institute, 2017
A survey on the state of academic customer service for students found that academic customer service provided on the nation's campuses is fair or weak at best and is a cause of many students leaving a college. Basic service functions such as training, telephone skills, and returning voice mails and emails are rudimentary service functions that are…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Holcombe, Lee – Educational Policy Institute, 2016
The Educational Policy Institute released a new report today about the ability of state and national databases to meet the policy needs related to higher education affordability. Written by EPI Senior Research Associate Lee Holcombe, the report finds that although states are establishing ambitious higher education participation and success targets…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Educational Policy, College Students, Student Financial Aid
Levine, Arthur; Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2014
On March 21 2013, the "Educational Policy Institute" held the first day of the EPI Forum on Education & the Economy in Orlando, Florida. The Forum was designed to discuss critical issues related to the nexus of education and the workforce. This document presents the transcribed session that featured two of the authors of the Teachers…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Documentaries, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2014
This EPI Policy Perspectives covers a presentation given at the European University Association Annual Convention (March 20, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic) that addresses the Bologna process in the European Union. The process raised many questions regarding the role of the university, and the entire tertiary/postsecondary system of education.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Barriers, Educational Policy, College Role
Raisman, Neal – Educational Policy Institute, 2013
This report, an analysis of 1669 U.S. institutions, is a first-time study of the relationship of attrition to revenues lost in four-year public, private, and for-profit colleges and universities on an annual basis. The report is the result of a study investigating the financial impact of attrition on four-year colleges and universities. Other…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, Costs, Income, Public Colleges