How do you know if the air around your facility is “clean”? And what are the consequences if it is not clean enough? As one of its basic tenets, the Clean Air Act (CAA) directs the U.S. Environmental ...

The past 15 years of efforts to improve college access and success could be deemed the “attainment goal era,” as nearly every state in the country set an ambitious goal to increase the share of their ...

The effect of education on survival outcomes was evaluated both overall and as it related to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Ultimate education level may be an independent risk factor for all-cause and ...

The National Center for Education Statistics regularly publishes status high school completion rates (National Center for Education Statistics, 2009a). Researchers interested in gauging the ...

Postsecondary education creates opportunities for individuals and prepares them to join the workforce. For this reason, it is important that we understand how educational attainment is measured. A ...

While being overweight or obese in adolescence may have detrimental effects on academic attainment, the evidence base is limited by reliance on cross-sectional studies with small sample sizes, failure ...

Using the criteria of high school and college completion, U.S. adults are better educated than ever before. In 2012, 31% of all adults ages 25 and older have completed at least a bachelor’s degree, up ...

White New Yorkers and residents of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods are significantly more likely to have college degrees than Blacks, Hispanics and those who live in the city’s poorest ...

The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted ...

The gap between what Scotland's poorest and richest young people are achieving in school "remains wide", a spending watchdog has warned. Audit Scotland said progress on closing the poverty-related ...