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Download full textKlein, Sabrina; Rosen, Rachel; Beal, Katie; Salimi, Sarah – MDRC, 2023
Interest in the field of career and technical education (CTE) has experienced a resurgence over the last decade, as the global economy has grown increasingly competitive while students have continued to leave school underprepared for well-paying twenty-first century jobs. Together and separately, the education and workforce sectors have sought to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Training, Program Effectiveness, Evidence
Quint, Janet C.; Jaggars, Shanna S.; Byndloss, D. Crystal; Magazinnik, Asya – MDRC, 2013
There is wide agreement that the well-paying jobs of the future will require postsecondary credentials. But for many students attending community college, developmental (or remedial) classes in reading, composition, and/or mathematics--the courses that students often must complete before they can enroll in courses that confer credit toward a…
Descriptors: Credentials, Developmental Studies Programs, Evidence, Measures (Individuals)
Clery, Sue; Topper, Amy – Achieving the Dream, 2010
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue of "Data Notes" looks at students who returned to their original Achieving the Dream institution after completing credentials or transferring to another institution. Forty-two percent of students who either received a degree or certificate or transferred from an Achieving…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Credentials, Associate Degrees, Educational Attainment
Topper, Amy – Achieving the Dream, 2009
Using the data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue of "Data Notes" is the second of a two-part series investigating the characteristics of late stop-outs--students who accumulate at least 30 credits within the first two years, only to stop out without completing credentials or transferring. The data show that male…
Descriptors: Credentials, Community Colleges, Credits, Developmental Studies Programs
Topper, Amy – Achieving the Dream, 2009
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community College Count, this issue of "Data Notes" is the first of a two-part series investigating the characteristics of late stop-outs--students who accumulate at least 30 credits within the first two years, only to stop out without completing credentials or transferring. Seventy-five percent of…
Descriptors: Credentials, American Indians, Credits, Grants
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Direct linkLucas, Samuel R.; Beresford, Lauren – Review of Research in Education, 2010
Education names and classifies individuals. This result seems unavoidable. For example, some students will graduate, and some will not. Those who graduate will be "graduates"; those who do not graduate will be labeled otherwise. The only way to avoid such labeling is to fail to make distinctions of any kind. Yet education is rife with…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Inferences
