The senior research associate at the Community College Research Center said easier access to financial aid improves college access.
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The Assistant Professor at the Community College Research Center proposes major structural changes to improve college student outcomes.
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Judith Scott-Clayton weighs in on the difficulty of ranking higher education institutions in an article in the New York Times.
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Judith Scott-Clayton, Assistant Professor in Economics & Education, discusses the factors that affect the cost of college attendance in a New York Times article about President Obama's college affordability plan.
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A study by TC's Judith Scott-Clayton and Olga Rodriguez found that, while remedial course are ineffective as college preparation, they can help students unlikely to get far in college.
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The study, released by The Brookings Institution, suggests states move beyond "merit" and "need-based" tuition aid and innovate new ways to encourage students to enroll and complete college.
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In the New York Times Economix blog, the assistant professor and researcher at TC's Community College Research Center, says research shows college-readiness tests are "only weakly related to college outcomes."
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The researcher and assistant professor at the Community College Research Center writes in the New York Times's "Economix" blog that early detection and treatment, in some cases, may harm the healthy by discouraging them from continuing in college.
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Two new studies from TC's Community College Research Center found that community colleges unnecessarily place tens of thousands of students in remedial classes.
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On the New York Times' Economix blog, Scott-Clayton writes that, counting those that don't receive federal aid, the reported number of for-profit colleges doubles.
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The benefit of athletic programs to universities' bottom lines can be quantified, Judith Scott-Clayton, an Assistant Professor at TC's Community College Research Center, writes in the New York Times' Economix blog.
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If students have relied on outside jobs to cover rising tuition costs, the drop in work hours due to a decline in available positions may be problematic, according to an article in Inside Higher Ed.
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On the Economix blog of the New York Times, Judith Scott-Clayton, Judith Scott-Clayton, Assistant Professor of Economics and Education and a researcher at TC's Community College Research Center, reveals why student loan debt is generally less burdensome than reports of dramatic cases indicate.
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College sticker prices are higher than what most students pay, writes Scott-Clayton, an associate professor of economics and education and senior research associate at TC's Community College Research Center.
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Higher education experts from across the nation kicked off TC's new federally funded Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE), which will research how well different post-secondary pathways prepare students for the workforce.
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Blogging for the New York Times, TC's Judith Scott-Clayton argues that now is not the time to reduce federal investments in financial aid and jobs programs -- but that in its current form, federal work-study may better serve the interests of privileged institutions than those of needy students.
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Judith Scott-Clayton, on the New York Times "Economix" blog, writes that even for students who attend college full-time, 45 percent take at least an extra year to complete a four-year degree.
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Judith Scott-Clayton, assistant professor in economics and education and senior research associate at the Community College Research Center, signed an open letter to Gaston Caperton, president of The College Board, suggesting ways to cut the national Pell Grant program "wisely."
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In the New York Times' Economix blog, Scott-Clayton writes that "the increase has heightened longstanding concerns that college students are borrowing too much."
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Blogging on The New York Times' "Economix" site, Judith Scott-Clayton, assistant professor at the Community College Research Center, says too much choice can lead to cognitive overload, procrastination and dissaatisfaction in college.
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Scott-Clayton will write periodically for the New York Times blog "Economix."
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Citing research by Judith Scott-Clayton, Assistant Professor and senior researcher at TC's Community College Research Center, David Leonhardt of the New York Times writes that West Virginia's policy requiring scholarship students to remain on track to graduate in four years has lifted the four-year graduation rate of recipients by almost 7 percentage points.
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International stakeholders will gather for a conference and institute, from March 28 through March 31, to discuss how standardized tests and other assessments are constructed, what they measure, and whether the results are appropriately used.
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Rankings by Rick Hess, education blogger for the American Enterprise Institute, include President Susan Fuhrman and Thomas Bailey, Jeff Henig, Luis Huerta, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Hank Levin, Ernest Morrell, Aaron Pallas, Michael Rebell, Judith Scott-Clayton, Amy Stuart Wells and Penny Wohlstetter. Hess annually ranks university scholars by their contributions to public debates about education.
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