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P-TECH 9-14 Pathways to Success: Implementation, Impact, and Cost Findings from the New York City P-TECH 9-14 Schools Evaluation. Executive Summary
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Rosen, Rachel; Alterman, Emma; Treskon, Louisa; Parise, Leigh; Dixon, Michelle; Wuest, Cassie – MDRC, 2023
The New York City P-TECH 9-14 schools are an educational model that ties together the secondary, higher education, and workforce systems to improve outcomes across domains. The distinguishing feature of the model is a partnership among a high school, a community college, and one or more employer partners that focuses on preparing students for both…
Descriptors: High Schools, Community Colleges, Employers, Partnerships in Education
P-TECH 9-14 Pathways to Success: Implementation, Impact, and Cost Findings from the New York City P-TECH 9-14 Schools Evaluation
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Rachel Rosen; Emma Alterman; Louisa Treskon; Leigh Parise; Michelle Dixon; Cassie Wuest – MDRC, 2023
The New York City P-TECH 9-14 schools are an educational model that ties together the secondary, higher education, and workforce systems to improve outcomes across domains. The distinguishing feature of the model is a partnership among a high school, a community college, and one or more employer partners that focuses on preparing students for both…
Descriptors: High Schools, Community Colleges, Employers, Partnerships in Education
Building College Readiness across Rural Communities: Implementation and Outcome Findings for the AVID Central Florida Collaborative Study
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Sepanik, Susan; Safran, Stephanie; Saco, Larissa – MDRC, 2018
In the United States today, more jobs than ever before require at least some postsecondary education. Yet too many young adults are either not enrolling or not succeeding in college. This scenario exists across many different types of communities, but schools in rural areas, particularly those with large populations of low-income students, face…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Schools, Alignment (Education), Public Schools
Implementing Ninth Grade Academies in Broward County, Florida
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Legters, Nettie; Parise, Leigh; Rappaport, Shelley – MDRC, 2013
Researchers from MDRC and Johns Hopkins University partnered with Florida's Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) in 2009 to launch an independent evaluation of the district's initiative to implement Ninth Grade Academies (NGAs) in every district high school. An NGA is a self-contained learning community for ninth-graders that operates as a school…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Grade 9, Program Implementation, High Schools
Sustained Positive Effects on Graduation Rates Produced by New York City's Small Public High Schools of Choice. Policy Brief
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Howard S. Bloom; Rebecca Unterman – MDRC, 2012
During the past decade, New York City undertook a district-wide high school reform that is perhaps unprecedented in its scope, scale, and pace. Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures,…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Restructuring, Graduation Rate, Disadvantaged
Striving for Student Success. The Effect of Project GRAD on High School Student Outcomes in Three Urban School Districts
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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