Sentences with phrase «effect on college enrollment»

The share of students attending non-religious schools (the only group to have no significant effect on college enrollment) has only increased by two percentage points since 2010 (from 17 to 19 percent).
Enrolling in a private school through the scholarship program had positive effects on college enrollment, mostly in two - year colleges, and there were zero or small effects on two - year degree attainment.
(p, 18) College attendance benefits are also fleeting: «Similar to the results for high school graduation, however, control students eventually catch up and make the treatment effects on college enrollment insignificant.»
A preliminary brief on these findings (Unterman 2014) shows similar effects on high school graduation to those presented here, and positive effects on college enrollment.

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Economist Jeff Denning has shown that a $ 1,000 drop in the price of Texas community colleges increased enrollment rates among students who would not have enrolled otherwise, but the effects on degree completion were far from definitive.
In a new study now online at Education Next and appearing in the Summer 2014 issue of Education Next, three researchers examine the effects the plan has had on college enrollment.
However, automatic admission has little effect on overall college enrollment or on the quality of the schools students in the top 10 percent attend.
Noble Street College Prep admits students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the effect of attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble students to their peers who lost the lottery using college enrollment data from the National Student ClearinCollege Prep admits students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the effect of attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble students to their peers who lost the lottery using college enrollment data from the National Student Clearincollege enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse.
Meanwhile, estimates of the effect of attending a charter high school on college enrollment are even larger using the restricted sample than with the original sample that includes schools offering both 8th and 9th grade.
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.
This report provides new evidence on how participation in FTC has evolved over this recent period of rapid expansion, and what that means for its likely effects on participating students» college enrollment rates.
And it has an even smaller effect on the results for college enrollment, reducing the estimated effect of charter school attendance by only about 10 percent in both locations.
For example, the Gates Foundation's small school reforms were widely panned as a flop in early reviews relying on student test scores, but a number of later rigorous studies showed (sometimes substantial) positive effects on outcomes such as graduation and college enrollment.
St. Paul — Only weeks after going into effect this fall, Minnesota's «open enrollment» plan, which allows 11th - and 12th - grade students to take college courses with tuition paid by per - pupil state foundation aid, has come under sharp attack on economic and constitutional grounds.
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.
This increase in flagship enrollment displaces enrollment in private universities, however, and therefore has no effect on overall college enrollment or on the quality of college attended.
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.
To estimate the effects of states» adoption and implementation of college - and career - readiness standards and aligned assessments on student outcomes, C - SAIL is analyzing National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
However, there is much more work that can be done, and many states have the necessary data to answer important research questions about CTE (including questions about equity and access, effect of participation on high school graduation rates, college enrollment and attainment, and civic and employment outcomes).
The elimination of the benefit could have a significant effect on enrollment in education schools at North Carolina colleges and universities.
There was still, however, a small positive effect on four - year college enrollment for students who began FTC in elementary or middle school.
Gill co-directed the first study of the effects of charter high schools on graduation, college enrollment, and earnings in adulthood; and the first nationwide study of the operations of online charter schools.
The few studies to examine the effects of BTB on college enrollment suggest large negative impacts on those with convictions; however, «application attrition» appears quantitatively more important than explicit rejection.
Some of her projects have included: «Improving Access to College Information and Financial Aid,» a study on the effects of simplifying the financial aid application process; «Understanding Barriers and Examining Interventions,» a series of research studies focused on college enrollment and completion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and «Addressing the Problem of Insufficient High School Preparation,» which focuses on state efforts to regulate college remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remedCollege Information and Financial Aid,» a study on the effects of simplifying the financial aid application process; «Understanding Barriers and Examining Interventions,» a series of research studies focused on college enrollment and completion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and «Addressing the Problem of Insufficient High School Preparation,» which focuses on state efforts to regulate college remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remedcollege enrollment and completion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and «Addressing the Problem of Insufficient High School Preparation,» which focuses on state efforts to regulate college remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remedcollege remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remediation.
In fact, in another study of Texas school records, presented at the 2005 meeting of the American Economic Association, Kristin Klopfenstein of Texas Christian University and Kathleen Thomas of Mississippi State University found, as Klopfenstein says, «zero effect for the average kid» of AP enrollment on college performance.
Comparing Noble high schools only to other charter schools and adjusting for other differences in students» background produces an estimated Noble effect of 13 percentage points on college enrollment — a large, significant difference.
We analyzed student records to estimate the effect of attending Noble on college enrollment, persistence, and quality, using success in postsecondary studies as a proxy for success in young adulthood.
New studies suggest that school vouchers have minimal impact on college enrollment and even less of an effect on college graduation rates.
Potholes on the road to college: High school effects in shaping urban students» participation in college application, four - year college enrollment, and college match.
A Regression - Discontinuity Evaluation of the Effect of Financial Aid Offers on College Enrollment
«A Regression - Discontinuity Evaluation of the Effect of Financial Aid Offers on College Enrollment,» New York University mimeo
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.
A recent What Works Clearinghouse intervention report found dual - enrollment programs have positive effects on high school graduation; academic achievement in high school; and college access, credit accumulation, and graduation.
Supplementary analyses suggest selection on pretreatment college enrollment plans explains some of the initial diversionary effect of dual enrollment.
We're analyzing data from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) and other sources to estimate the effects of college - and career - readiness standards on student achievement, high school completion, and college enrollment.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been asked to investigate the effect of current school policies on racial and socioeconomic integration and student education outcomes, including proficiency rates, high school graduation and dropout rates, and rates of college enrollment and completion.
In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26
A third question asked about the potential effect that increases in dual enrollment might have on the quality of college classes.
We use admissions lotteries to estimate effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation and enrollment.
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