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Direct linkHoward S. Bloom; Rebecca Unterman – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014
This paper provides rigorous evidence (for 12,130 participants in a series of naturally occurring randomized lotteries) that a large-scale high school reform initiative (New York City's creation of 100+ small high schools of choice between 2002 and 2008) can markedly and consistently increase high school graduation rates (by 9.5 percentage points…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, School Choice, Educational Improvement
Leos-Urbel, Jacob – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014
This paper estimates the impact of New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) on school attendance and other educational outcomes in the following school year for a large sample of low-income high school students. The program provides summer jobs and training to youth aged 14 to 21, and due to high demand allocates slots through a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Youth Employment, Summer Programs, High School Students
Steinberg, Richard N.; Cormier, Sebastien; Fernandez, Adiel – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2009
Common forms of testing of student understanding of science content can be misleading about their understanding of the nature of scientific thinking. Observational astronomy integrated with related ideas of force and motion is a rich context to explore the correlation between student content knowledge and student understanding of the scientific…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Cognitive Processes, High School Students, Scientific Literacy
