Report
Who Gets to Learn? Illinoisans’ Views on Public Higher Education
Education
Rebecca Silliman, Cruz Fox, and Sarah Bryner 2025 Illinois institutions of higher education face an impending funding crisis Despite recent gains in...
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Economic Mobility Case Studies
Education
In 2025, the American Council on Education (ACE) will launch the new Carnegie Student Access and Earnings Classification According to ACE, the...
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Still Searching: How People Use Health Care Price Information in the United States
Health
This new research reveals that Americans are still searching for price information, but obstacles remain to helping them find the information that...
Report
Success Is What Counts
Education
This guide is a starting point for community engagement efforts to ensure work begins on strong footing It outlines general principles of effective...
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A Process of Growth: The Expansion of Participatory Budgeting in the United States and Canada in...
Democracy
A Process of Growth” is a follow up to the first-ever comprehensive analysis of PB in the US and Canada, which we published in May 2016
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Why Let the People Decide Elected Officials on Participatory Budgeting
Democracy
The report, “Why Let the People Decide Elected Officials on Participatory Budgeting,” is based on confidential interviews with 43 local elected...
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Public Opinion on Higher Education: What’s the Payoff Americans Consider Problems and...
Education
Public Agenda, with support from The Kresge Foundation, conducted a representative survey of US adults, so that higher education reform efforts can...
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Public Spending, By The People: Participatory Budgeting In The United States And Canada In 2014...
Democracy
Participatory Budgeting is among the fastest growing forms of public engagement in local governance, having expanded to 46 communities in the US and...
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A Difficult Balance: Trustees Speak About the Challenges Facing Comprehensive Universities
Education
These comprehensive universities are trying to increase graduation rates among a changing student population at a time of historic declines in public...
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How Can We Ensure That All Children Have Excellent Teachers
Education
The US Department of Education has renewed its focus on ensuring that all students, especially those in under-resourced communities, have access to...
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Profiting Higher Education: What Students, Alumni and Employers Think About For-Profit Colleges
Education
Supporters argue that the for-profit sector has been a source of innovation in higher education, including by being an early leader in the rapid...