Postsecondary & Workforce

Distance Education Students and Their Access to State Financial Aid Programs

Students, postsecondary institutions and policymakers are turning to online education to meet individual educational needs, support...

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Navigating the “Great Divide”: Transfer policies across the states

One-third of college students transfer to a different institution at least once in their college career. This statistic alone highlights...

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Join us for a learning experience you won’t forget!

This blog is a guest post by Rep. Wendy Horman. She represents District 30 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She currently serves on the Joint Finance...

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Where You Live Rather Than What You Know? The Problem With Education Deserts

This post was co-authored with guest author Nicholas Hillman, an assistant professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the...

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Student Free Speech

Younger Americans often carry many labels, some fair and some unjust. They refuse to eat cereal because they’re too lazy to wash a bowl;...

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(College) Ready or Not, Here Comes ESSA!

 The latest reauthorization of the ESEA, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, provides a great deal of testing flexibility to states....

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New Partnership Formed to Address Important Campus Safety Issues

Education Commission of the States and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education recently partnered to address...

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State-Level Free Community College: Policy transformation or more of the same?

Every morning at the public high school across the street from my home, students show up from a few different neighborhoods: the middle...

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Stay Focused on the Next Degree, Don’t Just Refinance the Degree Earned

In responding to the student debt crisis, Brian A. Sponsler, Ed.D., director of postsecondary and workforce development at Education...

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