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Konrad, Lubomyr Stephan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative, phenomenological study examined teachers' experiences of the policy context of the fall of 2013 in the School District of Philadelphia. It was an extremely turbulent time resulting from a cascading policy environment with origins in federal government mandates. The study focused on ten teachers' perceptions of policy…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, School Districts
Rivera, Luis E.; Kotok, Stephen; Ashby, Nathan – Texas Education Review, 2019
Dual enrollment (DE) programs are on the rise nationally. This study uses recently available nationally representative data to examine which student and school characteristics predict participation in DE in the United States. We connect DE participation to human capital theory and related educational policy values of equity, excellence, and…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Geographic Regions
Alon, Titan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This paper builds a model of human capital accumulation driven by increasing specialization of the workforce. Individuals increase the efficiency of time dedicated to human capital acquisition by focusing investments on narrower sets of skills. The evolution of secondary and post-secondary curricula in the United States from 1870-2000 confirms the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Specialization, Labor Force, Efficiency
Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
In this study, we use microdata from 12 Florida county-level school districts and a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of early grade retention on the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes of English learners. We find that retention in the third-grade substantially improves the English skills of these students, reducing the…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, English Language Learners, Human Capital, English (Second Language)
Chesters, Jenny – International Journal of Training Research, 2018
Between 1983 and 1993, grade 7/8 to grade 12 apparent retention rates more than doubled and secondary schools developed vocational education and training (VET) programmes as alternative pathways through secondary school. Previous research indicates that participation in VET programmes is associated with having low-educated parents and/or attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Background, Vocational High Schools, Nontraditional Education
Arfani, Junita Widiati; Nakaya, Ayami – Journal of Research in International Education, 2019
The study on which this article is based aimed to discover the meanings of international education at the high school level from the perspective of students and parents in Japan and Indonesia. Two research questions are addressed: How do Indonesia and Japan balance their international education policy in relation to the need to foster globally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, International Education, High School Students
Conger, Dylan; Long, Mark C.; McGhee, Raymond, Jr. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
To evaluate how Advanced Placement courses affect college-going, we randomly assigned the offer of enrollment into an AP science course to over 1,800 students in 23 schools that had not previously offered the course. We find no substantial AP course effects on students' plans to enroll in college or on their college entrance exam scores. Yet AP…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, College Attendance, Enrollment, Science Instruction
Montebruno, Piero – Centre for Economic Performance, 2020
Disrupted schooling can heavily impact the amount of education pupils receive. Starting in early June of 2011 a huge social outburst of pupil protests, walk-outs, riots and school occupations called the Chilean Winter caused more than 8 million of lost school days. Within a matter of days, riots reached the national level with hundreds of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Social Action, Violence
Naven, Matthew Stevens – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation examines the role that external factors play in students' educational attainment and success. The first two chapters examine the role of school quality. Chapter 1 examines how the timing of school quality impacts human capital formation, and Chapter 2 examines whether schools provide equal quality to all students within the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Academic Achievement, Educational Quality, Human Capital
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff – Education Economics, 2017
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which may be less accurate than time-diary data. We use data from the combined Child Development Supplement (CDS) and the Transition to Adulthood Survey…
Descriptors: High School Students, Homework, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G., Jr. – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
The impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes using administrative data from Texas is estimated. It was found that, at the mean, charter schools have no impact on test scores and a negative impact on earnings. No Excuses charter schools increase test scores and four-year college enrollment, but have a small and statistically…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Human Capital, Educational Policy, Labor Market
Becker, Stacy; Rothschild, Steven – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2015
Profound demographic and technological changes are upon us, changes that pose new and evolving challenges requiring fresh approaches from virtually every sector and system. Education is no exception. As fiscal pressures grow, federal, state, and local governments are cutting back where they can, often in human service budgets. Ironically, these…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Vocational Education, Investment, Educational Finance
Stokes, Laura; Heenan, Barbara; Houghton, Nina; Ramage, Katherine; St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2017
In a two-year time span, 2013-14 through 2015-16, the National Writing Project's College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) achieved significant results in an independent, intent-to-treat, randomized controlled study. Middle and high school teachers in high-poverty rural districts in ten states changed their practices in response to the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Writing Instruction, National Programs, Middle School Teachers
Hernandez-Gantes, Victor M.; Keighobadi, Sasha; Fletcher, Edward C., Jr. – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
The career readiness of high school students has been a longstanding issue that has received renewed attention in recent years. To document an approach to promoting career readiness in the United States, we conducted an exploratory case study of a distinguished information technology career academy. Using the premises of capital building as a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Readiness, Case Studies, Information Technology
Albaek, Karsten – Education Economics, 2017
This paper analyses admission decisions when students from different high school tracks apply for admission to university programmes. I derive a criterion that is optimal in the sense that it maximizes the graduation rates of the university programmes. The paper contains an empirical analysis that documents the relevance of theory and illustrates…
Descriptors: College Admission, Graduation Rate, Admission Criteria, Higher Education