The three studies find neutral to positive impacts of private school
choice on college enrollment and graduation, but with some variation:
Not exact matches
As the cohorts have aged, it is now possible to measure the effects of small schools
on college enrollment and
choice, outcomes that have never been examined before.
Her work focuses
on college student access and
choice and the factors that influence students» postsecondary and labor market outcomes Long's current projects examine the roles of information and assistance in promoting
college enrollment and persistence.
A study by Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson
on the long - term impact of school vouchers
on college enrollment and graduation won the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize awarded for Best Academic Paper
on School
Choice and Reform.
Together, these findings demonstrate that
college outreach can have substantial impacts
on the
enrollment choices of Hispanic students and can serve as a lever for institutions looking to draw underrepresented, academically talented students.
The effects
on flagship
enrollment are only observed in high schools that send many of their graduates to
college, suggesting that automatic admission may have little effect
on the
college choices of students in the state's most - disadvantaged schools.
Three evaluations of private - school
choice programs have followed enough students for sufficiently long to determine their effects
on the rates of high - school graduation,
college enrollment, or both.
Understanding the effect of private school
choice on real - world success beyond test scores requires data
on outcomes like
college enrollment and graduation, and thanks to three recent Urban Institute studies, we know more about this than we did a year ago.
They also find no effect of the deduction
on enrollment intensity,
college choice, tuition paid, or student debt.
This study of Washington, DC's, Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) provides the first experimental evidence
on the effect of a publicly funded private school
choice program
on college enrollment.
As policymakers consider the design, expansion, or reform of private school
choice programs, they should carefully examine not just a program's likely impact
on short - term metrics such as test scores, but also how it might shape long - term outcomes, including
college enrollment and graduation.
Last month, the American Enterprise Institute published a paper by Collin Hitt, Michael Q. McShane, and Patrick J. Wolf that reviewed every rigorous school -
choice study with data
on both student achievement and student attainment — high school graduation,
college enrollment, and / or
college graduation.
Researchers looked at the performance of students in the dual
enrollment courses as well as the program's influence
on the students» grade point average, graduation rates,
college choices and
college performance.
I apply the method to linked administrative data spanning the state of Texas, using continuous instrumental variation in distances to nearby 2 - year and 4 - year
colleges (conditional
on a rich set of student, school, and neighborhood characteristics) to identify the effects of initial
enrollment choices on ultimate degree attainment and adult earnings.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — In celebration of National School
Choice Week, California Policy Center along with local charter schools will host the 2nd Annual Orange County Charter School
Choice Information and
Enrollment Fair
on Jan. 28 at NOVA Academy Early
College High School.
No surprise, the
enrollment patterns suggested a bias towards Vocational High Schools as a terminal education for 1st generation immigrants and at - risk urban minorities and the
College Prep High Schools would be skewed towards kids from two - parent, native born families and Caucasians even when the
enrollment is based
on open
choice.