The attainment gap between Scotland's richest and poorest school pupils increased last year, according to new figures. The Scottish government has said since 2015 that closing this gap - between the ...

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 ...

A new update from the Lumina Foundation finds that the percentage of working age adults who’ve earned a college degree or other postsecondary credential reached 54.9% in 2023, the most recent year for ...

Nearly four years since launching an ambitious effort to increase the educational attainment of Wyomingites, the state’s Educational Attainment Executive Council has wrapped up its work after ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s threat of declaring the Permian Basin a non-attainment zone for ozone not only jeopardizes the region’s economic stability, it endangers national security ...

A new study published in Addiction has identified genetic factors that influence both a person's risk of developing an ...

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, four men were enrolled in postsecondary institutions for every six women in 2023, a historic low. Men are less likely to enroll in and ...

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 ...

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

Recent emphasis on raising attainment has focused attention onto the 'gender gap' in school attainment levels. Using data from the Scottish School Leavers Survey, the article examines factors related ...

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 ...