Berkeley Policy Associates

College attendance rates among high school students differ by family income. One explanation offered for this difference is that students from low-income families lack information needed to successfully apply and enroll in college. The SOURCE mentoring program was created to provide college-eligible, low-income high school juniors with counseling, information, and oversight to aid their completion of the college application process. SOURCE mentors provide students with the practical knowledg...

Since the mid-1970s, magnet schools have been critical to school district efforts to implement voluntary desegregation plans and, in some cases, court desegregation orders.

In the early 2000s, young people from higher income families were much more likely to attend college than those of limited means, and only about half of the disparity was attributed to differences in high school grades and test scores. The researchers conducted this study to assess an advising program that sought to increase college-going among inner-city youth. The advising program was motivated by research that showed disadvantaged students were less successful than other students in compl...

The Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) authorized grants to states to fund local programs of adult education and literacy services. Funded at $554 million in Fiscal Year 2008, the programs provided instruction in reading, numeracy, GED preparation, and English literacy. The AEFLA also authorized National Leadership Activities. Such activities, which were designed to enhance the quality of adult education and literacy programs nationwide, included the identification of the most suc