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Smoothing the Transition to Postsecondary Education: The Impact of the Early College Model
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Edmunds, Julie A.; Unlu, Fatih; Glennie, Elizabeth; Bernstein, Lawrence; Fesler, Lily; Furey, Jane; Arshavsky, Nina – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
Developed in response to concerns that too few students were enrolling and succeeding in postsecondary education, early college high schools are small schools that blur the line between high school and college. This article presents results from a longitudinal experimental study comparing outcomes for students accepted to an early college through…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College School Cooperation, Longitudinal Studies, Comparative Analysis
Smoothing the Transition to Postsecondary Education: The Impact of the Early College Model
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Edmunds, Julie A.; Unlu, Fatih; Glennie, Elizabeth; Bernstein, Lawrence; Fesler, Lily; Furey, Jane – Grantee Submission, 2017
Developed in response to concerns that too few students were enrolling and succeeding in postsecondary education, early college high schools are small schools that blur the line between high school and college. This article presents results from a longitudinal experimental study comparing outcomes for students accepted to an early college through…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Longitudinal Studies, College School Cooperation, Comparative Analysis
Academic Impacts of Career and Technical Schools
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Neild, Ruth Curran,; Boccanfuso, Christopher; Byrnes, Vaughan – Career and Technical Education Research, 2015
This study presents findings from three cohorts of students--the classes of 2003, 2004, and 2005, in the School District of Philadelphia--that were admitted to the district's career and technical education (CTE) schools through a randomized lottery process. This study takes advantage of this so-called "'natural experiment' to compare high…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, School Districts, Cohort Analysis
Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
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Howard S. Bloom; Saskia Levy Thompson; Rebecca Unterman – MDRC, 2010
Since 2002, New York City has closed more than 20 underperforming public high schools, opened more than 200 new secondary schools, and introduced a centralized high school admissions process in which approximately 80,000 students a year indicate their school preferences from a wide-ranging choice of programs. At the heart of these reforms lie 123…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Educational Experience, Educational Improvement
Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem. NBER Working Paper No. 15473
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Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G., Jr. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward informing the long-standing debate whether schools alone…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Objectives, Achievement Gains, Outcomes of Education
The Evaluation of Charter School Impacts: Final Report. NCEE 2010-4029
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Gleason, Philip; Clark, Melissa; Tuttle, Christina Clark; Dwoyer, Emily – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
Adding to the growing debate and evidence base on the effects of charter schools, this evaluation was conducted in 36 charter middle schools in 15 states. It compares the outcomes of 2,330 students who applied to these schools and were randomly assigned by lotteries to be admitted (lottery winners) or not admitted (lottery losers) to the schools.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Middle Schools, Urban Areas, Context Effect