Assistant Professor at Truman School of Public Affairs, U. of Missouri (Previously: IES fellow at Stanford University; Research Scientist, College Board)
May 16, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🚨WORKING PAPER ALERT! Did providing HS students easily digestible information on a varied set of academically strong colleges alter their enrollment decisions? Unfortunately, we get an answer of no. Paper here: edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/…. (Thanks to @AnnenbergInst for hosting!) /1
The College Board wanted to encourage students to create a broader college application portfolio and consider more selective colleges. /2
Apr 25, 2019 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
🚨PAPER ALERT! Happy to share “What does free community college buy? Early impacts from the Oregon Promise”, conditionally accepted at JPAM: ogurantz.github.io/website/Gurant… 1/n
Oregon was an early adopter of state-level “free” community college, beginning with the 2016 cohort of high school graduates. I find that community college enrollment increased by a significant amount (~4-5 percentage points) in the 2016 and 2017 cohorts. 2/n
