Department of Education September 12, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Education (Department) requests information about promising and practical strategies, practices, programs, and activities (promising and practical strategies) that have improved rates of postsecondary success, transfer, and graduation. In addition, the Department announces the availability of the material submitted by respondents to an earlier request for information on this same subject. The Department believes this information will be of interest to others in situations similar to those described in the submissions. We also believe that this information will be useful during future deliberations, possibly including discussions concerning improvements to the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), and other legislative proposals to the Congress. Each response to this RFI should contain the following elements (see Guidance for Submitting Documents and Request for Information for full details): (1) Contact information; (2) Brief one-paragraph abstract; (3) Detailed description of the promising and practical strategy; and (4) Applicable keywords or tags (meta data tags).