The Demographics and Academics of College Going in Illinois. Policy Research Report: IERC 2006-2

In order to help the state of Illinois assess the extent to which it is providing access to educational opportunities that lead to successful transitions to college and the workforce, the IERC is undertaking a six-year longitudinal study following the 113,660 students in the Illinois high school class of 2002. This report, the second one in the series, addresses college participation in the first academic year after high school graduation (AY 2002-2003). The following are appended: (1) The Independent Effects of Factors Associated with College Going; (2) Descriptive Statistics for the Variables Employed in the Logistic Regression Models; (3) Supplementary Table; (4) College Participation per 1000 of the Illinois Class of 2002; and (5) College Going and High School Teacher Quality. (Contains 25 tables and 10 figures.)