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Download full textJohn P. Papay; Ann Mantil; Richard J. Murnane – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Many states use high-school exit examinations to assess students' career and college readiness in core subjects. We find meaningful consequences of barely passing the mathematics examination in Massachusetts, as opposed to just failing it. However, these impacts operate at different educational attainment margins for low-income and higher-income…
Descriptors: High School Students, Exit Examinations, Low Achievement, Scores
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Direct linkJohn P. Papay; Ann Mantil; Richard J. Murnane – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Many states use high-school exit examinations to assess students' career and college readiness in core subjects. We find meaningful consequences of barely passing the mathematics examination in Massachusetts, as opposed to just failing it. However, these impacts operate at different educational attainment margins for low-income and higher-income…
Descriptors: High School Students, Exit Examinations, Low Achievement, Scores
Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Forman, Benjamin – Boston Foundation, 2021
This report provides a contribution to the growing public policy debate around how to combat structural inequality by quantifying the power of community college as a pathway to economic mobility. Until recently, it has been difficult to accurately estimate the return to a community college education in Massachusetts because numerous factors affect…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market, Two Year College Students
Shields, Regis Anne; Miles, Karen Hawley – Education Resource Strategies, 2008
Education Resource Strategies (ERS) works with school and district leaders to help them more strategically use resources--people, time, and money--to improve student performance. They have found that many school districts begin creating small high schools without a clear sense of how much they will spend or how to ensure that small schools…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools, Case Studies
