Center for the Study of Education Policy
Emphasizing Research that Matters
The Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP) brings the results of research into the everyday world of educators, governmental leaders, and policymakers on the current and emerging policy issues affecting early childhood, K-12, and higher education.
Illinois explores partnerships to support college and career readiness at the eighth annual College Changes Everything® Conference
Why do students choose not to pursue college, or drop out of college, even when they are provided with significant college counseling, external encouragement, and assistance in accessing financial aid?
I Believe in Play: Professional development resources now available
Summer is a great time to plan for and even execute professional development for early education. The B-3 Continuity Project partnered with Pat Chamberlain and Julie Kallenbach to present a series of trainings on Developmentally Appropriate Practices. Through further collaboration, we are now happy to offer a comprehensive professional development option.
Publication: Importance of partnership to address community challenges
Ashley Long, Ph.D., the director of the Illinois Birth-to-Third Grade Continuity Project at the Center for the Study of Education Policy, was able to sit down with leaders from the field of social work to discuss potential ways that local partnerships can address society’s grand challenges.
ISAC hosts 8th annual College Changes Everything® Conference: Supporting Students’ Futures through College and Career Readiness Partnerships
The 8th Annual College Changes Everything® (CCE) Conference in Tinley Park on Thursday, July 19, 2018, brings together educators, government, business and non-profit leaders, other professionals, and students to share information, ideas and best practices to help Illinois students navigate a path for success.
School Leadership Program highlights: Illinois State University
In this edition of the SLP Highlights, how ISU used School Leadership Program funding to test and implement academies for administrators across the state is shared.All Center News
A Thought About Higher Education...
A new study makes a serious effort to provide a balanced non-partisan analysis of how decisions about budget reductions for public higher education affect student costs. It avoids some of the problems of more simplistic analyses and lays groundwork for further study of this issue.
What’s behind increased student college costs? One big reason...
In 2001, annual cost per student for public college tuition degree was $13,167 (state education contribution plus tuition). In 2016, cost was $13,259 (+$92 adjusting for inflation). State paid more than 70% of cost in 2001, but only 50% of cost in 2016 (SHEF report). Public colleges are less public today.