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Grosz, Michel – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
I estimate the effect of attending an associate's degree in nursing program on nursing licensure. I use student-level academic data for all California community college students, matched to public records on all nursing licenses earned in the state. I produce causal estimates using random variation from admissions lotteries at a large nursing…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Community Colleges, Certification, Associate Degrees
Lena Shi – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Students' college choices can affect their chances of earning a degree, but many lack the support to navigate the opaque college application and admissions process. This paper evaluates whether guaranteeing four-year college admissions based on transparent academic standards affected community college students' enrollment choices and graduation…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Admission, College Transfer Students, Admission Criteria
Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Michael D. Bloem; Xiaowen Hu; Michael Hurwitz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Using the detailed college level data from the College Scorecard on students' post-college earnings from the near universe of four-year colleges, we assess the usefulness of going beyond comparing colleges based only on median earnings and analyze the descriptive relationship between college selectivity and earnings outcomes and how this…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Admission, Selective Admission, Salary Wage Differentials
David Grissmer; Thomas White; Richard Buddin; Mark Berends; Daniel Willingham; Jamie DeCoster; Chelsea Duran; Chris Hulleman; William Murrah; Tanya Evans – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The Core Knowledge curriculum is a K-8 curriculum focused on building students General Knowledge about the world they live in that is hypothesized to increase reading comprehension and Reading/English-LA achievement. This study utilizes an experimental design to evaluate the long term effects of attending Charter schools teaching the Core…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Core Curriculum, General Education
Ron Zimmer; Richard Buddin; Sarah Ausmus Smith; Danielle Duffy – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
When charter schools first entered the landscape, the debate was contentious, with both advocates and critics using strong rhetoric. Advocates often sold charter schools as a silver bullet solution for not only the students who attend these schools, but the broader traditional public school system as well. Similarly, critics painted charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Effectiveness, Educational History, Comparative Analysis