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Erica Holt-White; Carl Cullinane – Sutton Trust, 2025
Internships have grown to become a crucial part of the graduate job market. Offering graduates an invaluable opportunity to gain hands-on experience, develop key skills, and build their networks, they can be formative experiences for those trying to kickstart their career. But our previous research has highlighted a persistent and pervasive…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Compensation (Remuneration), Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2022
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete-count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South to the North. Many counties that had the strongest…
Descriptors: Migration, Educational Opportunities, African Americans, Children
Sands, Anita M.; Goodman, Madeline J.; Kirsch, Irwin; Dreier, Kelsey – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2021
We know that opportunities exist in the United States, but if we hope to share these more equitably, we need to better understand the ways opportunities currently vary among individuals, families, states, and regions of the country. Using key measures of well-being (including poverty, income, employment, safety, and health) for each state, along…
Descriptors: Well Being, Poverty, Income, Employment Level
EdChoice, 2021
This annual publication is designed to be a one-stop shop for all the existing research on private school choice in the United States. This year's edition is updated with the research published since the last edition. Since the first modern-day voucher program launched in Milwaukee in 1990, researchers have studied private school choice programs.…
Descriptors: School Choice, Private Schools, Educational Vouchers, Educational Change
Sands, Anita; Goodman, Madeline – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2018
This report questions how skills are distributed across the millennial population, focusing on the size and demographic characteristics of U.S. millennials with low literacy and numeracy skills, and the resulting impact on social and economic outcomes. The authors do this in part by examining the issue of "disconnected youth," a term…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Youth, Late Adolescents, Young Adults
Robson, Kelly; Burgoyne-Allen, Phillip; Squire, Juliet; Schulz, Jeff – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
Fourteen percent of the nation's population lives in rural communities, and one in five K-12 students attends a rural school. This is a substantial portion of the population, but it's far too often overlooked by education analysts, advocates, and policymakers. Rural communities tend to face some persistent challenges, including higher rates of…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Barriers
Elengold, Kate Sablosky; Dorrance, Jess; Agans, Robert – UnidosUS, 2020
Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill teamed up with UnidosUS to explore whether and how our debt-driven higher education system makes it difficult for students to finish a college program or degree. The quantitative research, gathered from more than 1,500 respondents from across the country, offers insight into the primary…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Debt (Financial), Academic Persistence, Barriers