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Questions on Performance Funding
In response to a recent essay challenging their research, authors of studies on tying state funds to outcomes defend their work and the need for rigorous evidence to support policy trends.
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Don’t Dismiss Performance Funding
The state budgeting strategy isn’t a panacea, but a recent study unfairly and simplistically condemns it, write Nancy Shulock and Martha Snyder.
Wither Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Ed has already cut academic programs and staff members; now it has to cut more programs and professors.
Will States Reciprocate?
An effort to simplify how institutions are authorized to operate in multiple states prepares to invite its first members.
Performance Funding Underperforms
Studies at meeting of higher education researchers suggest that state policies that link funds to outcomes don't increase degree completion.
Scorecard for Scorecards
Complete College America talks up peformance-based funding at its annual meeting, releasing a report that rates the 16 states that have tried it so far.
Going to the Root of the Problem
Tennessee expands a remedial math project that reaches into high schools to boost college readiness, and the state's governor backs the reform with real money.
State Funding Upturn
With budgets set in many states, public colleges fare better than in recent years. Does that represent typical trend in a recovering economy, or something more?