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Cunha, Jesse M.; Miller, Trey; Weisburst, Emily – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
We study GO Centers, a college information program that is run by student peers and provides information about all aspects of the college-going process to academically prepared students on the margin of attending college. We use the semi-random rollout of the program along with detailed panel data on the universe of Texas public school students to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Information Dissemination, College Attendance
EGGENBERGER, ULRICH LEWIS – 1964
A STUDY OF THE 1953, 1954, AND 1955 WEST TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES WHO HAD COMPLETED 1 OR MORE YEARS OF VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE WAS CONDUCTED TO (1) DETERMINE PRESENT OCCUPATIONAL STATUS, (2) DETERMINE FACTORS RELATED TO OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE, (3) EVALUATE HIGH SCHOOL COURSES AND VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS AS RELATED TO OCCUPATIONS, AND (4)…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Career Choice, College Attendance, Curriculum Evaluation
Snipes, Jason C.; Holton, Glee Ivory; Doolittle, Fred; Sztejnberg, Laura – MDRC, 2006
This report describes the effects of Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) on student progress at three high schools in Houston (the initiative's original site) and at high schools in two other school districts (Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia). MDRC--a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization--conducted a third-party…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, High School Students, Urban Schools, High Schools
EGGENBERGER, LEWIS – 1964
QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO 1,201 OF THE 1,540 GRADUATES FROM A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF 52 OF THE 89 HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE AREA WHO HAD COMPLETED 1 OR MORE YEARS IN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND WHO GRADUATED IN 1953, 1954, AND 1955 TO DETERMINE (1) THEIR CURRENT OCCUPATION, (2) FACTORS RELATED TO THEIR OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE, (3) WHETHER THEY HAD…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Career Choice, College Attendance, Farmers