Lauren Schudde

The Transfer Trap: How Colleges Are Tackling America’s Credit-Loss Crisis | Inside Higher Ed More than half of U.S. adults who’ve tried to transfer college credit lose some or all of it, according to a survey by Sova and Public Agenda. This not only harms students’ chances at completing a bac...

For those interested in postsecondary transfer: ICYMI, here's a list of resources from the @insidehighered.com webcast "The Transfer Trap" www.insidehighered.com/events/virtu...

You’ll hear from me, Rose Rojas from the Maricopa County CC, Janie Valdés from Florida International University, and Zachary A. Pardos from the University of California, Berkeley, in a discussion moderated by Joshua Kim from Dartmouth College.

Join this session to learn how researchers, community colleges and universities are addressing the credit-loss trap and developing new standards, metrics and tools to improve credit applicability and student completion.

Over half of U.S. adults who’ve tried to transfer college credit lose some or all of it. I’ll be joining a panel of higher ed scholars and practitioners working at the forefront of transfer reform at a live webcast on January 27, at 2 p.m. E.T. Register @ bit.ly/3Liahsh

“It’s important for colleges to recognize that there can be economic barriers to participation in campus life." –@laurenschudde.bsky.social in an article published by @insidehighered.com

How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

4) Early College High School students are more diverse in terms of income and race/ ethnicity, complete college at higher rates, and earn more, but they represent fewer than 5% of TX high school students.

3) Fewer than 5% of students combine a CTE focus with dual enrollment, but those who do exhibit strong gains in their postsecondary and earnings trajectories.

2) Students who combine dual enrollment and AP/IB are less diverse in terms of income and race/ethnicity, but, by age 24, they have the strongest outcomes.

Four key takeaways: 1) Students who take any form of accelerated coursework have much stronger postsecondary and earnings outcomes in their early 20s than those who do not take any accelerated coursework.

Our analysis describe whether and how this college-and-career-accelerated coursework explains differences in college degree completion and earnings gains six years after high school.

We constructed 6 distinct accelerated coursework profiles: 1) only DE; 2) DE in combination with HS CTE focus (10 or more CTE courses); 3) DE with AP/IB; 4)
AP/IB without DE; 5) HS CTE w no other acceleration; 6)
No college-and-career acceleration (i.e., none of the above).

Promising Combinations of Dual Enrollment, AP/IB, and CTE: The College and Earnings Trajectories of Texas High School Students Who Take Accelerated Coursework This report examines how students combine different types of accelerated coursetaking in high school and their earnings trajectories.

New report: Our research team from #CCRC & #UtexasCOE studied dual enrollment (DE), AP/IB, and career-and-technical-education (CTE) coursetaking patterns at TX HSs and how those combinations predicted college attainment and earnings trajectories. ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publications...

Competitive candidates will show a commitment to conducting collaborative research on understudied populations and/or under-resourced systems to generate evidence that has the potential to guide practice and policy. Open to a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.

Job alert:
@utexascoe
is seeking Assoc/Full prof with expertise in design, development, delivery, rigorous evaluation, adaptation, and implementation of prevention and/or early intervention programs that promote health and well-being during the lifespan. faculty.utexas.edu/career/170226

Our paper “Gaps in the College Application Gauntlet” (w Daniel Klasik & Rachel Baker) is in this #RIHE collection showcasing research using #NCES data—an invaluable resource for understanding postsec opportunity.

Articles are open access for 4 weeks: bit.ly/RIHE-NCES

NCES data has been critical to allowing research into important educational issues. Thank you #RIHE for highlighting impactful scholarship that has relied on NCES data. The articles highlighted in this collection are open access for the next 4 weeks.

US economic data quality a worry, authorities not acting urgently enough, experts say Risks to the quality of official U.S. economic data - long seen as the gold standard - are worrying 89 of 100 top policy experts polled by Reuters, with most also concerned that the authorities are not addressing the issue urgently enough.

"People take statistical agencies for granted. So they're easy to cut because there's no lobby or special interest group that's powerful enough to protect them."
- Ethan Harris, former head of global economic research at Bank of America
www.reuters.com/business/us-...

In the coming years, we will have less available data to draw on to re: education in the U.S. With this collection of prior articles and our upcoming special issue, we hope to highlight how impt NCES data is for understanding (and improving) American education. link.springer.com/collections/...

Articles in the collection cover a considerable range of postsecondary experiences available in NCES data, including HS experiences before college, undergraduate ed at sub-baccalaureate- and baccalaureate-granting institutions, grad education, & labor market outcomes during and after schooling.

The editorial team selected these publications based on research impact—using statistics for most downloaded and most cited articles—and an emphasis on studies that contributed new information in terms of topic and/or methodological approach.

Over the past ten years, #RIHE has published >80 articles that used NCES data as a primary data source. In this special collection, we highlight key RIHE articles that used NCES data to provide important insights for research, practice, and policy. #highered link.springer.com/collections/...

A Tale of Two Locales: The Importance of Geographical Setting in Predicting Dual Enrollment Partnership Success Researchers examined dual enrollment partnerships across Texas and how the specifics of these partnerships predict student success.

HEP author @laurenschudde.bsky.social‬ co-wrote a blog post for CCRC, which examines "variation in dual enrollment (DE) partnerships across Texas and estimated how characteristics of these partnerships predict student success." Read it here: https://bit.ly/3TAmU2o

Ever since the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics was dismissed by the Trump administration in February, I wanted to hear her story. Peggy Carr was among a string of Black senior officials fired in early 2025. (1/3)

The geographical locale of TX dual enrollment courses (college courses taught to high school students) & using an early college high school model predicted students' positive outcomes better than characteristics of the dual enrollment itself. @laurenschudde.bsky.social #AcademicSky #highered

A Tale of Two Locales: The Importance of Geographical Setting in Predicting Dual Enrollment Partnership Success Researchers examined dual enrollment partnerships across Texas and how the specifics of these partnerships predict student success.

Check out my new #CCRC blogpost and working paper with #WonsunRyu & #KimPack: We describe variation in #dualenrollment partnership characteristics and examine whether those characteristics predict aggregate student success ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/easyblog/tal...

College Uncovered The single fastest-growing group of students in college? This may come as a surprise — they’re still in high school.So-called “dual enrollment” — also known as “early college” and “concurrent enrollment” — seems a win-win. Institutions get students, at a time when demographic shifts are making that more difficult; that’s especially true at community colleges, whose enrollment has declined the most. Meanwhile, high school students rack up credits, potentially saving time and money. Some finish their associate degrees at the same time that they get their diplomas. And studies show that they’re more likely to go on to and graduate from college than their classmates who don’t.The Department of Education didn’t even track how many students were taking dual-enrollment courses until last year. It turned out that two and a half million of them are. Studies show they’re more likely to go to and graduate from college than their classmates who don’t.High school students now make up a fifth of community college enrollment. At 37 community colleges nationwide, more than half of students are still in high school.But like much in higher education, there are traps and pitfalls. Not all of those credits transfer, for example. In this episode, we provide a road map to navigating dual enrollment.

HEP author @laurenschudde.bsky.social‬ appeared on the College Uncovered podcast and spoke about dual enrollment students. Listen to the discussion here: https://bit.ly/3H5NsoZ

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Congratulations to HEP authors @laurenschudde.bsky.social‬ and Huriya Jabbar, whose book, DISCREDITED, was recently honored with the 2025 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award! Learn more about this title here: https://bit.ly/4kpfvOt

College Uncovered: The Old College Try - The Hechinger Report The single fastest-growing group of students in college? It may come as a surprise: They’re still in high school. This story also appeared in GBH News So-called “dual enrollment” — also known as “earl...

The latest College Uncovered podcast focused on dual enrollment students, the fastest growing segment of the HE population in the US. I spoke with the hosts about how DE compares with other HS college acceleration options. hechingerreport.org/college-unco...

Our goal is to highlight the depth and breadth of NCES data, which is collected on behalf of the federal govt but used by researchers across the country to understand a variety of issues related to HE in the U.S.

The journal Research in Higher Education is seeking manuscripts using data from the National Center for Education Statistics for a special issue. Please read the full call for papers here and circulate to your networks! #RIHE link.springer.com/collections/...