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Cassidy, Lauren; Garland, Marshall; Jonas, Deborah; Yarnall, Louise – Texas Education Research Center, 2020
In 2017, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) awarded SRI International and its subcontractor, Gibson Consulting Group, (the SRI/Gibson team) a contract to conduct a study to inform the state's efforts to improve career and technical education (CTE) programs. The SRI/Gibson team designed the study to help TEA learn more about the CTE programs offered…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Racial Differences
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Strohl, Jeff; Gulish, Artem; Van Der Werf, Martin; Campbell, Kathryn Peltier – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2019
Between 1991 and 2016, employment among White, Black, and Latino workers grew by 20 percent, while employment in good jobs soared by 35 percent. Yet the opportunities and benefits of the modern economy have not accrued evenly across the three groups. Discrimination and a history of racial injustice in this country have led to Whites gaining a…
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Whites, African Americans, Hispanic Americans
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Strohl, Jeff; Gulish, Artem; Van Der Werf, Martin; Campbell, Kathryn Peltier – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2019
This is the executive summary for the report, "The Unequal Race for Good Jobs: How Whites Made Outsized Gains in Education and Good Jobs Compared to Blacks and Latinos." Between 1991 and 2016, White workers built on their past educational and economic privileges to attain bachelor's and graduate degrees in historically high numbers and…
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Whites, African Americans, Hispanic Americans
Carruth, Blair; Palica, Michael – Utah System of Higher Education, 2018
This report includes data on a diverse and broad array of Career and Technical Education (CTE), credit and noncredit offerings, provided by the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) institutions that prepare people for employment in current or emerging occupations that require postsecondary credentials other than a baccalaureate or advanced…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education, Undergraduate Study, Noncredit Courses
Holzman, Brian; Gul, Muhreen; Salazar, Esmeralda Sánchez; Kennedy, Camila Cigarroa – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
This document is the appendices for "Transitioning to College and Work Part III: Labor Market Analysis in Houston and Texas." The report examined: (1) Supply and demand for labor in the Houston area and Texas, including an examination of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's (THECB) "60×30TX" strategic plan; (2)…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Urban Areas, Supply and Demand, Wages
Xu, Di; Solanki, Sabrina; Harlow, Ashley – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
Two-year colleges have served as vital stepping-stones for students seeking to earn a bachelor's degree. To achieve that goal, these students must complete their current program's requirements and then matriculate at a four-year college--a process known as "vertical transfer." This is commonly extolled as a cost-saving strategy, but it…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Attainment
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad J. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2016
In this report, the authors have recently discovered that the increase in lifetime earnings from having a bachelor's degree, relative to having just a high school diploma, is much smaller for people who grew up poor than it is for people who grew up wealthier. This finding that has not been uncovered by any previous research, in part because until…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Socioeconomic Background, Family Income, Salary Wage Differentials
Unterman, Rebecca; Haider, Zeest – MDRC, 2019
In 2002, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) launched a bold set of education reforms designed to transform the educational experiences of all high school students: They instituted a district-wide high school choice process that assigned all rising ninth-graders to specific high schools; they closed large, low-performing high…
Descriptors: School Choice, Academic Persistence, Small Schools, Labor Market
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Year Up" is an occupational and technical education intervention that targets high school graduates to provide them with six months of training in the information technology and financial service sectors followed by a six-month internship and supports to ensure that participants have strong connections to employment. This What Works…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Information Technology, Finance Occupations, Internship Programs
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Year Up" is an occupational and technical education intervention that targets high school graduates to provide them with six months of training in the information technology and financial service sectors followed by a six-month internship and supports to ensure that participants have strong connections to employment. This What Works…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Information Technology, Finance Occupations, Internship Programs
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Year Up" is an occupational and technical education intervention that targets high school graduates to provide them with six months of training in the information technology and financial service sectors followed by a six-month internship and supports to ensure that participants have strong connections to employment. This What Works…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Information Technology, Finance Occupations, Internship Programs
Paul, S.; Rafal, M. C.; Houtenville, A. J. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2021
The "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" and its complement, the "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" (ED620436), are summaries of statistics about people with disabilities and about the government programs which serve them. The Compendium, presents key overall statistics on topics including the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Incidence, Employment Level, Institutionalized Persons
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
Hull, Jim – Center for Public Education, 2016
High school graduates are defined as those students who graduated high school on time with a standard high school diploma or higher. It does not include students who earned a general education diploma (GED), a certificate of completion, vocational diploma, special education diploma or any other credential that illustrates student accomplishments…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Noncollege Bound Students, Career Readiness, Career Planning
Davies, Peter; Davies, Neil M.; Qiu, Tian – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
We estimated the effects of an intervention which provided information about graduate wages to 5593 students in England, using a blinded cluster randomised controlled trial in 50 schools (registration: AEARCTR-0000468). Our primary outcome was students' choice of A-level subjects at age 16. We also recorded the students' expectations of future…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Wages