Conceptualizing and Researching the Educational Pipeline
| Title: | Conceptualizing and Researching the Educational Pipeline |
| Author: | Ewell, Peter T. Jones, Dennis P. Kelly, Patrick J. |
| Date: | 2003 |
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| Price: | FREE |
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While there has been much written about dropout from high school and student retention in college as separate phenomena, little conceptual or empirical work examines how the two fit together. Thinking about this matter is timely for at least two reasons. First, the reform movement in standards-based education for K-12 education
is beginning to foster significant discussions about the transition between high school and college in many states—a policy agenda usually termed “K-16.”
Second, state and national leaders also have a renewed interest in enhancing educational attainment, not just from an educational perspective, but as a key social asset.
Partly stimulated by such publications as Measuring Up (National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education, 2000, 2002), governors and other policymakers are increasingly viewing high levels of “educational capital” as key to the economic development of their states and the quality of life of their citizens. |