Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally: Public Policy Issues of the Georgia HOPE Scholarship Program and the Lottery for Education

Rubenstein, Ross

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“…The most commonly cited rationale has been the need to develop and retain highly qualified workers in a state (Heller & Marin, 2004;Rogers & Heller, 2003). Other policymakers have argued that merit aid programs are a way to create incentives for higher student performance (Heller & Marin, 2002;Rubinstein, 2003). Other policymakers have argued that merit aid programs are a way to create incentives for higher student performance (Heller & Marin, 2002;Rubinstein, 2003).…”

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Adoption of Merit-Based Student Grant Programs: An Event History Analysis

Doyle

2006

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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As of 2005, 15 states had adopted a broad-based merit aid program, providing a combined $1.2 billion for college students on the basis of academic qualifications. This represents a shift away from a long tradition of need-based aid at the state and federal levels. This article utilizes a Cox proportional hazards model to analyze states’ characteristics that are associated with their probability of adopting a merit aid program. Lower levels of college continuation and educational attainment are found to increase the hazard for a state’s adoption of a merit aid program, whereas higher levels of student out-migration decrease the proportional hazard for a state’s adoption of such a program.

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Adoption of Merit-Based Student Grant Programs: An Event History Analysis

Doyle

2006

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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“…Policymaker support for merit-based aid stems from a range of policy goals. Among these goals are keeping the best and brightest students at home to address issues related to state economic competitiveness and development Doyle 2006;Heller and Rogers 2003), increasing access to college for various student groups Dynarski 2000;Heller and Marin 2002), promoting and rewarding academic excellence Heller and Marin 2002;Rubinstein 2003), responding to accountability issues with tangible measures such as academic benchmarks (Dynarski 2003), placating middle-income voters (Dynarski 2000), and mirroring others' merit-based programs (McLendon and Heller 2002). Georgia's HOPE scholarship program, which was adopted in 1993, is often viewed as the prototypical state merit-based student scholarship program Marin 2002, 2004).…”

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Merit-Based Student Aid and Freshman Interstate College Migration: Testing a Dynamic Model of Policy Change

Orsuwan¹,

Heck

2008

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This study examines how state merit-based scholarships individually and simultaneously with prepaid tuition plans influence the interstate migration of collegebound freshmen. State freshman migration percentages were examined over a 10-year period. Results of an interrupted time-series model suggested that students generally respond to merit-based tuition aid in accordance with our initial prediction based on factors influencing student choice in attending postsecondary institutions. More specifically, many students choose to attend an in-state college in order to be eligible for state merit-based scholarships. Moreover, for home states that adopted both merit-based scholarships and prepaid tuition contracts, student out-migration was further reduced over time.Keywords College financial aid Á Freshman college migration Á Merit-based college scholarships Á Prepaid-tuition Á Policy analysis Á Growth modeling State educational policy is a complex and dynamic process involving normative beliefs, value preferences, goals, and resource commitments (Firestone 1989). One current educational problem facing state governments concerns their ability to continue to provide adequate postsecondary education in the face of rising higher education needs and expectations, changing student demographics and enrollment patterns, and increasing educational costs. Rising costs of obtaining a college education place a greater financial burden on students and their parents, decrease student participation in higher education, and challenge state legislatures to find ways to hold down tuition and provide increased

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L’impact de la crise financière de 2008-2009 sur les grandes universités américaines

Masseys-Bertonèche¹

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Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally: Public Policy Issues of the Georgia HOPE Scholarship Program and the Lottery for Education

Cited by 3 publications

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Adoption of Merit-Based Student Grant Programs: An Event History Analysis

Adoption of Merit-Based Student Grant Programs: An Event History Analysis

Merit-Based Student Aid and Freshman Interstate College Migration: Testing a Dynamic Model of Policy Change

L’impact de la crise financière de 2008-2009 sur les grandes universités américaines

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