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Implementation Lessons from a Pilot Career-Planning Partnership for Recent High School Graduates in Bridgeport, Connecticut
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Rock, Andrew – MDRC, 2022
Data from past economic downturns show that "recession graduates"--those graduating from high school or college during a recession--may have worse outcomes in earnings and health for years or even decades to come. MDRC sought to work with stakeholders to better understand the challenges recent graduates are facing in the current context…
Descriptors: Career Development, Partnerships in Education, High School Graduates, Economic Climate
Motor City Momentum: Three Years of the Detroit Promise Path Program for Community College Students. Executive Summary
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Ratledge, Alyssa; Sommo, Colleen; Cullinan, Dan; O'Donoghue, Rebekah; Lepe, Marco; Camo-Biogradlija, Jasmina – MDRC, 2021
Postsecondary education is widely seen as a necessity in the modern economy. Yet students at community colleges often face steep odds when it comes to completing a degree. Community colleges serve many low-income and first-generation students as well as students of color, all of whom must contend with many obstacles to success. At the same time,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, At Risk Students, High School Graduates
The Impact of an Intensive Year-Round Middle School Program on College Attendance
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Garcia, Ivonne; Grossman, Jean Baldwin; Herrera, Carla; Linden, Leign L. – MDRC, 2020
Too many talented students who go to under-resourced schools do not achieve their full potential. Though they may perform very well relative to their classmates, these students do not receive the same kinds of academically challenging opportunities throughout their educational journey as do their counterparts in better-resourced public and private…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Program Effectiveness, Grade 5, Grade 6
Motor City Momentum: Three Years of the Detroit Promise Path Program for Community College Students
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Ratledge, Alyssa; Sommo, Colleen; Cullinan, Dan; O'Donoghue, Rebekah; Lepe, Marco; Camo-Biogradlija, Jasmina – MDRC, 2021
Postsecondary education is widely seen as a necessity in the modern economy. Yet students at community colleges often face steep odds when it comes to completing a degree. Community colleges serve many low-income and first-generation students as well as students of color, all of whom must contend with many obstacles to success. At the same time,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, At Risk Students, High School Graduates
Building a Future: Interim Impact Findings from the YouthBuild Evaluation
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Miller, Cynthia; Millenky, Megan; Schwartz, Lisa; Goble, Lisbeth; Stein, Jillian – MDRC, 2016
Young people have been hit especially hard by changes in the labor market over the past decades. Unemployment among 16- to 24-year-olds increased the most of any age group during the recent recession, and remains more than double that among older adults. The unemployment rate is especially high for young people without high school diplomas.…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Unemployment, Youth Programs, Vocational Education
Striving for Student Success. The Effect of Project GRAD on High School Student Outcomes in Three Urban School Districts
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Snipes, Jason C.; Holton, Glee Ivory; Doolittle, Fred; Sztejnberg, Laura – MDRC, 2006
This report describes the effects of Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) on student progress at three high schools in Houston (the initiative's original site) and at high schools in two other school districts (Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia). MDRC--a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization--conducted a third-party…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, High School Students, Urban Schools, High Schools