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• Impact and Trends of New Hampshire’s Colleges and Universities: A 2007 Report to New Hampshire Citizens - 2007 Summary Report - 2007 Detail Report
  The New Hampshire Forum on the Future
  January 2007
  This report describes the “industry” of higher education in our state and the contributions higher education makes to our economy, to our quality of life and to the lives of our citizens. We also measure the current status of postsecondary education in New Hampshire, and identify emerging trends that have profound repercussions for New Hampshire’s future.

• NEW ENGLAND 2020: A FORECAST OF EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WORKFORCE OF NEW ENGLAND STATES
  Nellie Mae Education Foundation
  June 2006
  Prepared for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation by a team of researchers led by Stephen Coelen of the University of Connecticut and Joseph Berger of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the study is a much anticipated sequel to their 1993 report entitled Beyond 2000: Demographic Change, Education and the Work Force.
  


• The Economic Status of Working Women in New Hampshire
  New Hampshire Women's Policy Institute
  May 2005
  This signature report on the economic status of working women in New Hampshire is intended to be the first of successive research projects for NHWPI.



• Is More Better?  The Impact of Postsecondary Education on the Economic and Social Well-Being of American Society
  Educational Policy Institute
  May 2005
  This literature review attempts to discern whether more education is actually better for the individual and society. We investigate the literature and ask: What are the economic and non-economic returns to postsecondary education investments? Who reaps the benefits of those investments? And, most important, are there sufficient returns, both economic and non-economic, to the larger society to justify increasing public investment in higher education?

• ACT National Curriculum Survey® 2005–2006
  April 2007
  A new study by ACT points to a gap between what U.S. high schools are teaching in their core college preparatory courses and what colleges want incoming students to know in order for them to succeed in first-year courses.
  

• Tough Choices or Tough Times (Executive Summary)
  National Center on Education and the Economy
  December 2006
  The report proposes a restructuring that America’s economic preeminence hinges on the preeminence of our educational system. Unfortunately, America has been lagging behind on key educational indicators for quite some time. Nothing short of radical change will turn the situation around. The final report will propose a restructuring of educational priorities that will have a major impact on all levels of education – from preschool to college and beyond.

• ASLP Student Loan Fact Book 2007
  America’s Student Loan Providers
  January 2007
  America’s Student Loan Providers released the “2007 Student Loan Fact Book.” ASLP is a D.C.-based coalition that represents 85 private, nonprofit and state-based education and financial organizations that provide guaranteed student loans through the FFELP. The Fact Book uses only independent and government data and provides as thorough a collection of student loan data as you'll find anywhere. It paints a very good picture of the loan programs within the larger context of postsecondary financial aid (federal and nonfederal).
  

• The Future of Private Loans: Who Is Borrowing, and Why?
  Institute for Higher Education Policy
  December 2006
  This highly anticipated national publication examines recent developments in the private loan industry, characteristics of private loan borrowers, and trends that might impact the growth of private loans in the future. It draws on recent financial aid data and in-depth information from finance professionals to offer the most comprehensive look at private loans within the student lending industry.
  
  
• Trends in Student Aid 2006
  College Board
  October 2006
  Trends in Student Aid presents annual data on the amount of financial assistance—grants, loans, work-study, and education tax benefits—distributed to students to help to help them pay for postsecondary education.



• Trends in College Pricing 2006
  College Board
  October 2006
  This report, based on the College Board’s Annual Survey of Colleges, provides up-to-date information on tuition and other expenses associated with attending public and private nonprofit institutions of postsecondary education in the United States.



• Tuition Discounting: Not Just a Private College Practice
  The College Board
  October 2006
  The practice of tuition discounting or price discrimination— charging different students different prices for the same educational opportunities—is a long-standing feature of private higher education institutions. In this paper we report on tuition discounting for undergraduate students at public four-year and two-year institutions, using data from the College Board’s Annual Survey of Colleges.



• ACE Issue Brief:  Credit Card Ownership and Behavior Among Traditional-Age Undergraduates, 2003-04
  American Council on Education
  July 2006
  The U.S. Department of Education’s 2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) contains valuable information about student use of credit cards. In 2003–04, 56 percent of all dependent undergraduates owned at least one credit card that was issued in their name and was billed to them. Almost one out of four undergraduates carried a balance on their credit card from month to month, with the median debt at $1,000.



• Paying Back, Not Giving Back: Student Debt’s Negative Impact On Public Service Career Opportunities
  The State PIRGs Higher Education Project
  April 2006
  This report looks at the issue of unmanageable debt as it pertains to college graduates entering two critical public service careers: teaching and social work. Given increasing dependence on student loans, borrowers graduating from four-year schools and working in these two public service careers often carry more debt than they can manage. The prospect of burdensome debt likely deters skilled and dedicated college graduates from entering and staying in important careers educating our nation’s children and helping the country’s most vulnerable populations.



• Addressing Student Loan Repayment Burdens: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Current System
  The Project on Student Debt
  February 2006
  This white paper is based on an extensive review of U.S. student loan repayment policies. We found that many current provisions intended to help struggling borrowers fail to provide adequate protection from dangerously high repayment burdens. The paper describes the system's strengths and weaknesses and identifies a range of practical reforms.



• Early Commitment Financial Aid Programs: Promises, Practices, and Policies
  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
  August 2005
  A new report, entitled Early Commitment Financial Aid Programs: Promises, Practices, and Policies, finds that efforts by private foundations and states to provide guarantees of financial aid for postsecondary education to low-income students in middle school or early high school have brought encouraging results. The report, issued by The Education Resources Institute (TERI) and the Pathways to College Network, looked at early data on these programs.



• Federal Student Loan Debt: 1993 to 2004
  The American Council on Education
  June 2005
  Summarizes the total student loan debt of undergraduate and graduate students completing their degrees. It describes recent trends in cumulative student loan borrowing of college graduates by institution type and degree earned.

• Latinos in New Hampshire: enclaves, diasporas, and an emerging middle class
  2005
  Yoel Camayd-Freixas, Gerald Karush, & Nelly Lejter. , 17 pp

Miscellaneous

• The Condition of Education in Brief 2007
  National Center for Education Statistics
  June 2007
  The Condition of Education 2007 in Brief contains a summary of 20 of the 48 indicators in The Condition of Education 2007. The topics covered include: public and private enrollment in elementary/secondary education; projections of undergraduate enrollment; racial/ethnic distribution of public school students; student achievement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading, mathematics, and science; adult literacy; status dropout rates; immediate transition to college; school violence and safety; educational attainment; parental choice of schools; expenditures for elementary and secondary education, and federal grants and loans to undergraduate students.
  
  
• Education Pays 2006: Second Update
  College Board
  October 2006
  This second update to the College Board’s 2004 publication, Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society, provides a needed reminder of the earnings premium associated with higher education and the ways inwhich an educated population strengthens society.



• Granite State Poll Report: Addressing the Attitudes of New Hampshire Residents Concerning the Future of the State
  The New Hampshire Forum on the Future
  May 2006



• THE STATUS OF MEN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: FIRST BIENNIAL REPORT
  OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF MEN
  November 2005
  This report addresses men's health, fatherhood issues, domestic violence, child support, the Task Force on Family Law, Paternity Fraud and Certificates of Birth, Education, and offers a summary of recommendations.

• Research Relating to Making the Transition from High School to College and the Workforce
  Plymouth State University
  May 2007
  This report is an outgrowth of a Math and Science Partnership grant funded by the New Hampshire Department of Education and the U. S. Department of Education entitled “Making the Transition from High School to College (MaTHSC). The report examines national and local research pertaining to the preparation of students for college and the workforce.
  
  
• Closing the Expectations Gap 2007
  Achieve, Inc.
  April 2007
  This survey updates the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and work, and finds that at least 48 states are now actively engaged in reform efforts of some kind. There is more momentum in the states now than at any time since education reform became a national priority with the release of A Nation at Risk in 1983.
  
  
• From Cradle To Career: Connecting American Education From Birth Through Adulthood: New Hampshire State Highlights- 2007
  Editorial Projects in Education
  January 2007
  This profile examines the state of state educational policymaking using a unique combination of original state data and in-depth journalism. The analysis tracks state efforts to create a more seamless education system by looking at performance across the various sectors, and state attempts to define students’ “readiness” to succeed from one stage to the next.
  
  
• Mortgaging Our Future: How Financial Barriers to College Undercut America’s Global Competitiveness
  Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance
  September 2006
  This report follows up our two previous reports, Access Denied and Empty Promises, by focusing on how financial barriers created by rising college prices and insufficient need-based financial aid undercut bachelor’s degree attainment in the United States.



• The Postsecondary Educational Experiences of High School Career and Technical Education Concentrators
  NCES
  July 2006
  This report presents information on the postsecondary educational experiences of students from the high school class of 1992 who concentrated in career and technical education (CTE) while in high school, including their postsecondary enrollment, coursetaking, and degree attainment patterns. 



• Convergence: A Profile of New England 
  Institute for Higher Education Policy
  April 2006
  This new report warns that the New England region faces a convergence of trends similar to those at the national level, with potentially serious negative consequences on higher education opportunity for low- income, minority, and other underserved populations.



• Convergence: Trends Threatening to Narrow College Opportunity in America 
  Institute for Higher Education Policy
  April 2006
  A diverse array of factors at the federal, state, and institutional levels are likely to converge in the coming decade with potentially serious negative consequences on higher education opportunity for low-income, minority, and other underserved populations. Declining grant aid, changing demographics, competition among colleges, and other factors will collide, according to this new report, leading to diminished college participation for the nation’s fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups.



• Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates
  Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
  April 2006
  This study uses a widely respected method to calculate public high school graduation rates for the nation, for each state, and for the 100 largest school districts in the United States. The report calculates graduation rates overall, by race, and by gender, using the most recent available data (the class of 2003).



• The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts
  Civic Enterprises in association with Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  March 2006
  The central message of this report is that while some students drop out because of significant academic challenges, most dropouts are students who could have, and believe they could have, succeeded in school.



• The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion from High School Through College
  US Department of Education
  February 2006
  The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.



• Head Start on College (requires registration)
  Jobs for the Future
  2005
  This report focuses on dual enrollment programs serving young people who may not consider themselves “college bound.” It poses questions about whether dual enrollment could-or should-be developed as an approach to increasing the number of college graduates in the region. A program guide, included in the report, profiles 19 dual enrollment partnerships, with vignettes from each New England state.



• Higher Ed Matters
  Nellie Mae Education Foundation
  October 2005
  Higher Ed Matters finds that young people, drawn to New England states for higher education opportunities, are having a positive effect on population and workforce growth, providing arguably the sole remaining bright spot in an otherwise troubling demographic picture for the region.