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Johnna L. Bruhn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Industry certification and apprenticeship programs are vital in closing the labor shortage gap while improving graduation rates nationwide. New Mexico has trailed behind the rest of the nation in rebalancing the emphasis on skilled trades, particularly in rural schools. This phenomenological study interviewed ten Career and Technical Education…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Rural Schools, Program Administration, Administrators
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Goldhaber, Dan; Long, Mark C.; Person, Ann E.; Rooklyn, Jordan; Gratz, Trevor – AERA Open, 2019
We investigate factors influencing student sign-ups for Washington State's College Bound Scholarship program and consider whether there is scope for the program to change college enrollment expectations. We find that student characteristics associated with signing the scholarship pledge closely parallel characteristics of low-income students who…
Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, Scholarships, College Bound Students, Student Characteristics
Goldhaber, Dan; Long, Mark C.; Person, Ann E.; Rooklyn, Jordan; Gratz, Trevor – Grantee Submission, 2019
We investigate factors influencing student sign-ups for Washington State's College Bound Scholarship program and consider whether there is scope for the program to change college enrollment expectations. We find that student characteristics associated with signing the scholarship pledge closely parallel characteristics of low-income students who…
Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, Scholarships, College Bound Students, Student Characteristics
Goldhaber, Dan; Long, Mark; Person, Ann E.; Rooklyn, Jordan – Center for Education Data & Research, 2019
We investigate factors influencing student sign-ups for Washington State's College Bound Scholarship (CBS) program and consider whether there is scope for the program to change college enrollment expectations. We find that student characteristics associated with signing the scholarship closely parallel characteristics of low-income students who…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Student Attitudes, Expectation, Predictor Variables
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Inegbedion, Juliet Obhajajie; Adeyemi, Julius K. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Distance university education has come a long way in Nigeria. It started as a dual mode and today has both the dual and single modes. However, the system has been faced majorly with the challenge of inadequate funding. This has hampered the success rate of the system. Therefore for the purpose of appropriate utilisation of the available fund, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Unit Costs, Educational Finance
Finnigan, Kara S.; Stewart, Tricia J. – National Center on School Choice, Vanderbilt University (NJ1), 2009
This study examines one of the longest standing interdistrict choice programs in the country: Rochester, New York's Urban-Suburban Interdistrict Transfer Program (USITP). Based upon quantitative and qualitative data, including analysis of approximately forty years of program records, review of program documents and newspaper articles, and…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Urban Schools, School Districts, School Choice