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Michelle Miller-Adams; Kevin M. Hollenbeck; Bridget F. Timmeney; Kyle Huisman – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Columbus Promise, a place-based tuition-free college program for graduates of Columbus City Schools, was created in 2021 and began granting scholarships to the high school graduating class of 2022. The initial phase of the Columbus Promise is a three-year pilot covering the high school graduating classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024. The overriding…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, High School Graduates, Scholarships, Enrollment Influences
Houston Independent School District, 2014
The Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program was developed to increase the number of secondary students who participate in rigorous academic courses, to accelerate student learning, and to improve student performance. The AVID program in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) targets students who (1) are in the academic…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, College Bound Students, School Districts, Acceleration (Education)
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Muñoz, José; Harrington, James R.; Curs, Bradley R.; Ehlert, Mark – Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Recent federal and state education policy has targeted community colleges as an affordable venue to increase postsecondary attainment. We examined a state program aimed at increasing community college enrollment, the Missouri A+ Schools Program, which provided eligible graduates from participating high schools the opportunity to earn a scholarship…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Enrollment, High School Graduates
Brammell, P. Roy – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
At a time when a large portion of the pupils who have completed the work of the secondary school continues into higher institutions of learning, neither the group of secondary schools nor the aggregation of colleges has a right to consider its problems out of relation to the level of education above or below it. During the past few years a…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, School Surveys, School Statistics