HCM produced 51 state specific primers for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation documenting the states workforce and skills gap needs and how the states standards and assessments are addressing those needs.

HCM produced a toolkit for business leaders detailing how college and career ready standards and aligned assessments support their efforts to strengthen the education system in their state and address their workforce needs.

A Case study written on behalf of the PIE Network that details the robust outreach Louisiana leaders and advocates did to inform educators about the new aligned assessments.

Parent mindsets report (2017) in collaboration with Learning Heroes

Paper by Martha Snyder for the Miller Center at UVA

Parent mindsets report (2016) in collaboration with Learning Heroes

Announcement and link to a 2016 update to our Driving Better Outcomes Typology

This guide is intended to serve as a resource for state leaders who wish to support PLA, whether through new higher education policy or through legislation.

Writeup about Driving Better Outcomes Typology

This paper by the RADD 2.0 consortium outlines the need for an automatic income-based repayment (IBR) system, measures the current IBR terms against these principles, examines ways to reduce administrative burdens and discusses the reasons for altering the current IBR formula when implementing auto-IBR.

States are natural laboratories for experimentation on policy design and implementation. It is instructive to look to states for guidance on how to strengthen federal accountability for financial aid, including federally guaranteed loans. For the past 35 years, state higher education systems have experimented with ways to use outcomes data to share responsibility for improved outcomes. This review of state policies describes how widespread “shared responsibility” policies for college completion are, what emerging or existing evidence of effectiveness exists and which outcomes metrics are used to implement these policies.

A report that answers a series of questions posed about the effectiveness of Indiana’s financial aid programs, the efficiency of the programs’ administrative operations, and the projected costs of the aid programs over the next twenty years.

HCM convened a small group of financial aid, tax and higher education policy experts. The technical panel was charged with examining the overall financial aid system and developing innovative policy ideas that respond to the fiscal, economic and demographic realities the nation faces today.

This report focuses on a group of institutions that play a particularly important role in the face of these challenges— public research universities.

HCM Strategists partnered with Hart Research Associates and The Winston Group to produce this report on beliefs about the importance of college, impressions of the financial aid system, priority for reform, and reactions to potential reform approaches.

A Better Higher Education Data and Information Framework for Informing Policy