by Margaret A. Miller (full text)

by Kati Haycock

The nation’s K-12 leaders are poised to adopt common college and career-ready standards for American high schools that they hope will bridge the gap between what high schools require and what students need for success in credit-bearing college courses. (full text)

by Brian T. Prescott

Colorado has replaced direct appropriations to institutions with a funding model based on vouchers. The policy was intended to expand educational opportunity, improve efficiency, and relieve the fiscal pressure that threatened the state’s public institutions. Results have been mixed, at best. (full text)

by Diana Bilimoria and Kimberly K. Buch (excerpt)

by Kent John Chabotar (excerpt)

by Jeffrey Steedle, Heather Kugelmass and Alex Nemeth (excerpt)

by Joni E. Finney and Carol F. Stoel (excerpt)

by Lara K. Couturier (full text)

by Peter Smith (excerpt)

by Margaret A. Miller (excerpt)

by Lori A. Goetsch (excerpt)

by Margaret A. Miller (full text)

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by Dennis Jones and Jane Wellman

The fiscal problems facing higher education can only partially be solved through better management of resources within institutions. They will also require attention at a public-policy level, including reforms in how states finance higher education. (full text)

by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower

Males account for only 43 percent of US undergraduates; should we do something about it? Yes: determine which are most disadvantaged, examine where those who are not in college go, and craft responses that are suited to individual institutional contexts. (full text)

by Barbara M. Kehm

Originally conceived as a reform of educational structures and degrees, the Bologna agenda has increasingly focused on curricular content and cooperation in quality assurance, in an attempt to make degrees and qualifications more compatible and comparable. (full text)

by Mary Taylor Huber (excerpt)

by William R. Doyle (excerpt)

by Megan M. Otis (excerpt)

by William E. Kirwan (excerpt)