Higher education attainment is associated with higher levels of female participation, and investment in education of girls promotes gender equality in earnings and labor market opportunities.
The insights offered in The Attainment Agenda have important implications for public policymakers, college and university leaders, and educational researchers interested in ensuring sustained higher education attainment.
Lumina Foundation's latest Stronger Nation report shows we must do significantly more to build on the modest gains in U.S. higher education attainment.
Regaining America's global leadership in higher education attainment requires robust participation and effort to meet this goal from all colleges and universities — public and private, two-year and four-year, across all states and territories.
We hypothesize that in China where education resources are limited, higher education attainment induces faster urban growth through breaking the barriers to rural urban transition for new job market entrants, but at the cost of lower real wages due to affluent labor supply.
Most community college systems, historically an entryway into higher education, can no longer be considered an affordable option — a key reason the higher education attainment gap between Whites and minorities has persisted, and in some cases grown, even as the population continues to diversify.
Majority of children whose mothers have no formal education were stunted (64.1 %), under-weight (64.9 %) and wasted (61.0 %), relative to children whose mothers had secondary or higher education attainments.
Participants with younger age and higher education attainments and seeking sex partners via the Internet were more likely to be ready to consistently use condoms in the future 3 months.
More than half the residents of Marin County, a suburb of San Francisco, hold at least a bachelor's degree, giving the county one of the highest education attainment rates in the United States.
