"September 2014."

State policies and higher education attainment /Michael K. McLendon and Laura W. Perna -- The persistence of unaligned K-12 and higher education systems: why have statewide alignment efforts been ineffective? / Laura W. Perna and Michael Armijo -- Assessing the promise of California's early assessment program for community colleges / Michal Kurlaender -- The role of state policy in promoting college affordability / Jennifer A. Delaney -- State-level responses to the access and completion challenge in the new era of austerity / William Doyle and William Zumeta -- Pricing out the disadvantaged? The effect of tuition deregulation in Texas public four-year institutions / Stella M. Flores and Justin C. Shepherd -- The role of institutional and state aid policies in average student debt / James Monks -- Financing college opportunity: factors influencing state spending on student financial aid and campus appropriations, 1990 through 2010 / Michael K. McLendon, David A. Tandberg, and Nicholas W. Hillman -- Performance funding for higher education: forms, origins, impacts and futures / Kevin J. Dougherty, Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Rebecca S. Natow, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash Reddy -- Evaluating impacts of performance funding policies on student outcomes in higher education / Amanda Rutherford and Thomas Rabovsky -- Insights and implications for state policy-makers / Laura W. Perna, Michael W. Klein, and Michael K. McLendon.