Postsecondary

We outline what we are seeing in the research produced and published within the network this year with respect to various aspects of college / postsecondary-related research questions.

Continuing our examination of college enrollment rates across four of the largest urban school districts in the U.S. (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston), we take a closer look at how ‘college enrollment’ is defined across several RPP reports and discuss the ramifications of different definitions both on policymaking and any attempted comparisons of enrollment rates across studies/districts.

Examining college enrollment rates across four of the largest urban school districts in the U.S. (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston), we go deep into how the seemingly straightforward question “What’s your district’s college enrollment rate?” can have vastly different answers depending on who’s asking, why they’re asking, and how they’re asking – all of which makes for different policy implications, and for findings that may not lend themselves to direct comparison.