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Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2020
Overall, too few students are completing two-year college. Those who complete are still starting off unequally. About one-third of students earning academic degrees do not transfer, but rather go directly to work and find their degree has little value in the labor market. Research suggests they could have benefitted from having marketable skills…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Outcomes of Education, Wages
Graff, Cristina Santamaria; McCain, Terrence; Gomez-Vilchis, Veronica – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2013
Many Latina students overcome multiple obstacles to earn university degrees. Five married Latina women with children and seasonal farmworker backgrounds are the focus of this study which is analyzed through resiliency theory to understand factors contributing to their academic resilience. Variables connected to academic success are explored and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Resilience (Psychology), Hispanic American Students, Performance Factors
Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – Center for Education Data & Research, 2011
Over 2,000 teachers in the state of Washington received reduction-in-force (RIF) notices across the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years. We link data on these RIF notices to an administrative dataset that includes student, teacher, school, and district variables to determine the factors that predict the likelihood of a teacher receiving a RIF notice.…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Economic Climate, Structural Unemployment, Job Layoff