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Castellano, Marisa E.; Richardson, George B.; Sundell, Kirsten; Stone, James R., III – Vocations and Learning, 2017
In the United States, education policy calls for every student to graduate from high school prepared for college and a career. National legislation has mandated programs of study (POS), which offer aligned course sequences spanning secondary and postsecondary education, blending standards-based academic and career and technical education (CTE)…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Readiness, Career Development, Career Readiness
Tsai, Wehn-Jyuan; Liu, Jin-Tan; Chou, Shin-Yi; Grossman, Michael – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
We exploit a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on educational outcomes of their children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high schools at a differential rate among regions. We form treatment and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Junior High Schools, Human Capital, Compulsory Education
Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr.; Neumark, David – Education Economics, 2007
We study a set of programs implemented in Philadelphia high schools that focus on boosting high school graduation, and especially college attendance, using data from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study (PELS). We examine the effects of these programs on a set of schooling-related outcomes during and after high school. The PELS data-set…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, School Districts, Graduation
Van Dooren, Wim; De Bock, Dirk; Depaepe, Fien; Janssens, Dirk; Verschaffel, Lieven – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2003
Previous research has shown that--due to the extensive attention spent to proportional reasoning in mathematics education--many students have a strong tendency to apply linear or proportional models anywhere, even in situations where they are not applicable. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the "illusion of linearity". For example, in…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Grade 10, Grade 12, Probability