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Xu, Zeyu; Backes, Ben; Oliveira, Amanda; Goldhaber, Dan – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Kentucky's Targeted Interventions (TI) program is a statewide intervention intended to prepare non-college-ready high school students for college-level coursework. Using a difference-in-regression discontinuity design, we find that TI reduces the likelihood that students enroll in remedial courses by 8 to 10 percentage points in math. These…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, High School Students, College Readiness
Austin, Megan; Backes, Ben; Goldhaber, Dan; Li, Dory; Streich, Francie – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Taking advanced courses in high school predicts a broad array of positive postsecondary and labor market outcomes. Yet students from historically disadvantaged groups and low-income backgrounds have long been underrepresented in these courses. To address this problem, more than 60 districts in Washington state implemented a policy that…
Descriptors: High School Students, School Districts, Educational Policy, Advanced Courses