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The Interplay Between Economic Status and Race/Ethnicity in the 8th Grade Cohort

This blog entry serves as the final in our summer series presenting data and insights from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. Our previous blog posts have explored data on educational outcomes for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on success measures at three different timepoints: high school graduation,…

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Outcome Gaps in the 8th Grade Cohort

We continue our summer blog series reviewing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. In our previous blog post, we presented data on educational outcomes for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on students’ economic status, finding that just over 9 percent of economically disadvantaged students completed a…

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The Plight of Economic Disadvantaged Students in the 8th Grade Cohort

We continue our summer blog series reviewing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) 8th grade cohort study, now known as the “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. This blog post builds on previous entries (here and here) by exploring educational outcome data for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on students’ economically disadvantaged…

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The Growing Gap Between Females and Males in Educational Attainment in Texas: Evaluating Outcomes for the 8th Grade Cohort

This blog post serves as the second in our summer series where we are looking at the the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) 8th grade cohort study, now known as the “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. In our previous blog post, we noted that 76% (823,083) of the 1.08 million students in the combined three-year 8th-grade cohort…

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Failing to Finish: Tracking the 8th-Grade Cohort in Texas

Within higher education circles, most discussions about student success center on 6-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who enroll right after high school graduation. More recent efforts, such as the IPEDS Outcome Measures that comprised our spring data blog series, have started tracking the success of transfer students in earning higher education credentials. While…

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Overview of THECB Fall 2023 Enrollment Data

This blog post serves as a pause in our fall data series on the relationship between lifetime earnings and educational attainment. With the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) releasing fall 2023 enrollment data for public colleges and universities this week, it seems appropriate to provide an enrollment update, as we will return to the…

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The End Game: Exploring Graduation Rates of CC Transfers to Universities

With the academic calendar signaling the start of a new school year, this blog post will serve as the last installment of our summer series on community colleges in Texas. Our previous posts looked at enrollment trends at community colleges, including the importance of dual credit in Texas, as well as challenges facing transfer students seeking to…

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Upwardly Mobile: The Transition from 2-to-4 year Institutions

In our previous blog post, we reviewed statewide trends related to transfer cohorts from two-year to four-year institutions, as approximately one-third of academic majors starting at community colleges transfer to public universities in Texas within 6 years of first-time enrollment. This blog post will look at “enrollment funnel” data, tracking community college transfer students from…

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The Challenging Reality of Community College-to-University Transfers in Texas

One of the most important metrics for tracking the success of public community colleges in Texas is the number of students who start at two-year institutions and transfer to public universities. According to the Community College “Student Success Funding” formula that was directed by the Texas legislature, transfers carry the second-highest weight (3.0) in the…