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Kristina Zeiser; Robert Schwarzhaupt; Mengli Song; Kyle Neering; Sara Mitchell; Joanne Blank – Grantee Submission, 2024
Purpose: Jointly operated by school districts and postsecondary institutions, Early Colleges are either whole school program or programs within schools designed to serve students traditionally underrepresented in higher education. The Early College High School Initiative was established in 2002 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Higher Education, High School Students, College Preparation
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Ding, Weili; Tang, Yipeng; Hu, Yongmei – Education Economics, 2023
In this paper, we analyze recently collected data that conducts a unique assessment of high school student performance for over two thousand students from five Chinese provinces. Across three domains of scientific intelligence tested, we document heterogeneous gender gaps in academic performance. These differences generally arise due to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Science Education, STEM Education
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Center for Learner Equity, 2024
This fourth of six briefs analyzing data from the 2020-2021 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), released earlier this year, focuses on the experiences of students with disabilities with disciplinary practices at both charter schools and traditional public schools. Though the COVID-19 pandemic was still in its early stages, concerns about the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Discipline, Disproportionate Representation
Darling-Hammond, Sean; Trout, Lauren; Fronius, Trevor; Cerna, Rebeca – WestEd, 2021
In California, Black students have markedly lower academic achievement than their White peers and Black students are also more likely to experience exclusionary discipline, such as suspensions (Cano, 2020, Losen & Martinez, 2020). What can be done to mitigate these racial disparities in schools? In this brief, we investigate whether increasing…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, African American Students, White Students, Racial Differences
Shuqiong Lin; Megha Joshi; Kate Caton; Joseph Patrick Wilson – American Institutes for Research, 2024
The American Institutes for Research® (AIR®) partnered with Girls Who Code (GWC) to conduct an independent study evaluating the effectiveness of two GWC summer virtual programs, the Summer Immersion Program (SIP) and the Self-Paced Program (SPP), on promoting the pursuit of Computer Science (CS)-related postsecondary education for high school…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness
Sarah R. Cohodes; Helen Ho; Silvia C. Robles – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a suite of such programs targeted to underrepresented high…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Summer Programs, Minority Group Students, High School Students
Lisa Williams; Olivia Groves; Wai Yin Wan; Eunro Lee; Lucy Lu – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2023
This paper is the second in a series of Analytical Insights papers, which provide accessible, up-to-date analysis of educational datasets. It is the first in a series that uses the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)'s new Longitudinal Literacy and Numeracy in Australia (LLANIA) dataset to explore educational questions. The paper…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries
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Forrow, Lauren; Kelly, Kevin – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2020
The purpose of this study was to understand why middle schools in two mid-Atlantic states were apparently disproportionately identified for targeted support and improvement (TSI) based on the performance of their students with disabilities (SWD) subgroups. The study used publicly available data to examine differences across school levels --…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Disproportionate Representation, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2019
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into two-page sheets on a variety of subjects. The topics for this report on English learners and high school mathematics include: (1) Distribution of Students Enrolled in High School Mathematics Classes; (2) Percentage of Students Who Failed to…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, High School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Stephens, Sonya; Scrimgeour, Meghan; Huang, Haigen; Gilleland, Kevin – Wake County Public School System, 2021
In response to inquiries about the roles of School Resource Officers (SROs), the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) conducted a review of the SRO program using data from several sources: SRO referral and incident data; a survey of WCPSS students, staff, and members of the community; and data from focus groups. Two major themes emerged from…
Descriptors: County School Districts, Public Schools, Police, Police School Relationship
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Arneson, Amy; Hodara, Michelle; Klein, Steve – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
This study summarizes the secondary career and technical education (CTE) landscape in Oregon under its last CTE state plan, which was implemented under the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV), and it provides baseline information to guide implementation of Oregon's updated state plan under Perkins V.…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, Outcomes of Education, Educational Legislation
Almond, Monica – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2017
Of the nearly 100 different types of high school diplomas that are awarded across all fifty states and the District of Columbia, less than half prepare students for success in college and career. And while the national high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, the rate at which students earn these college- and career-ready (CCR) diplomas…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Disproportionate Representation, Low Income Students
Rodriguez, Olga; Payares-Montoya, Daniel; Ugo, Iwunze; Gao, Niu – Public Policy Institute of California, 2023
These are the appendices for the report, "Improving College Access and Success through Dual Enrollment." Dual enrollment, which allows high school students to take college courses and earn college credits, is an important way to expand educational opportunities, improve economic mobility, and meet California's workforce needs (Education…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Access to Education, Higher Education, High School Students
Goldhaber, Dan; Kane, Thomas J.; McEachin, Andrew; Morton, Emily – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
In this paper, we use NWEA MAP test data to examine variation in students' achievement and growth during the pandemic across multiple dimensions. Consistent with prior evidence, we find that students' test scores in fall 2021, on average, were substantially below historic averages. Moreover, the average scores of students of color, students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Tests
Fergus, Meredith – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2020
In 2015, the Minnesota Legislature enacted a state postsecondary educational attainment goal that 70% of Minnesota adults (age 25 to 44) will have attained a postsecondary certificate or degree by 2025 (Minn. Laws 2015 Chapter 69 Article 3 Sec. 6). Most importantly, the law also sets 30% and 50% educational attainment benchmarks for all races and…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational Attainment, Minority Group Students, Postsecondary Education
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