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Direct linkJason West; Paul Ratanasiripong; Stephen Glass; Christopher Lund – Middle School Journal, 2024
This study investigated the impact middle school tracking has on outcomes in high school and the factors associated with those outcomes. Utilizing data from a large, diverse school district, this quantitative study investigated the relationships between middle school and high school English course enrollment among 4,503 middle school students. The…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Track System (Education), High School Students, Correlation
Raising the Bar for College Admission: North Carolina's Increase in Minimum Math Course Requirements
Clotfelter, Charles T.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Ladd, Helen F. – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
We explore the effects of a statewide policy change that increased the number of high school math courses required for admission to four-year public universities in North Carolina. Using data on cohorts of eighth-grade students from 1999 to 2006, we exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment encountered by…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Secondary School Mathematics, Public Colleges
Wexler, Jade; Pyle, Nicole; Fall, Anna Maria – Preventing School Failure, 2015
Project GOAL is a systematic dropout prevention model including individual and peer-mediated group interventions for at-risk students. This article provides an overview of the Project GOAL model and describes a 2-year experimental pilot study of Project GOAL with a cohort of eighth-and ninth-grade students in a low-income school district in the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Intervention, Secondary School Students, Pilot Projects
Peer reviewedHamrick, Florence A.; Stage, Frances K. – Review of Higher Education, 1998
A study tested the accuracy of a general model in predicting college predisposition among eighth-grade students of diverse ethnicity at schools characterized by high minority enrollments and high participation levels in subsidized school lunch programs. Results suggest models using broadly aggregated student data may overlook important…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, College Bound Students, Diversity (Student)
