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Vivian Yuen Ting Liu; Veronica Minaya; Di Xu – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Dual enrollment (DE) is one of the fastest growing programs that support the high school-to-college transition. Yet, there is limited empirical evidence about its impact on either students' college application choices or admission outcomes. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach on data from two cohorts of ninth-grade students in one…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Applicants, School Choice, College Admission
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Megumi M. Ohashi; Etsuko Togo; Yumiko Iume – Cogent Education, 2024
Some families opt not to enroll their children in free public junior high schools, choosing instead those requiring rigorous entrance examinations. Attending selective junior high schools facilitates better education, employment, and higher salaries. To evaluate the significance of junior high school entrance examinations, this study investigated…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Junior High School Students, Educational Attainment, Living Standards
Napier, Rebecca D.; Jarvis, Jane M.; Clark, Julie; Halsey, R. John – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
Despite adolescent girls' superior school achievement and high career aspirations, fewer women than men achieve career eminence. Understanding early influences on the development of gifted girls' career-related values and aspirations may help to explain this discrepancy in career outcomes. This article reports findings from a qualitative,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Selective Admission