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The Cost of Economic and Racial Injustice In Postsecondary Education
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
In partnership with the Postsecondary Value Commission, we conducted a thought experiment on the costs of inequality in the US education system. Our simulation found that the US economy misses out on $956 billion dollars ...
Mission Not Accomplished: Unequal Opportunities and Outcomes for Black and Latinx Engineers
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
Engineering occupations are some of the highest-paying and most prestigious in the US labor market, but they are also some of the least diverse. Mission Not Accomplished: Unequal Opportunities and Outcomes for Black and ...
Selective Bias Asian Americans, Test Scores, and Holistic Admissions
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
Selective Bias: Asian Americans, Test Scores, and Holistic Admissions evaluates the common arguments made by affirmative action critics and Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing Harvard University and has lawsuits ...
The Overlooked Value of Certificates and Associate’s Degrees: What Students Need to Know Before They Go to College
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2020)
This report examines the labor-market value of associate’s degrees and certificate programs, finding that field of study especially influences future earnings for these programs since they are tightly linked with specific ...
The Dollars and Sense of Free College
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2020)
The Dollars and Sense of Free College measures the costs of three major free-college models as well as the cost of a plan put forth by 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which shows the likely costs in the ...