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Download full textUnterman, Rebecca; Bloom, Dan; Byndloss, D. Crystal; Terwelp, Emily – MDRC, 2016
The prospect of a well-paying job for a worker without a college education has significantly dimmed in the past three decades, in the wake of sweeping changes in the U.S. economy and labor market. The effects of these changes are particularly devastating for young people from disadvantaged urban communities. In response to this issue, the SEED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Disproportionate Representation
Unterman, Rebecca – MDRC, 2014
Taking advantage of lottery-like features in New York City's high school admissions process, previous MDRC reports have provided rigorous evidence that new small public high schools are narrowing the educational attainment gap and markedly improving high school graduation prospects, particularly for disadvantaged students. The new findings in this…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Small Schools, High Schools, Selective Admission
Quint, Janet; Thompson, Saskia Levy; Bald, Margaret – MDRC, 2008
This report offers lessons from the last in a series of three high school reform conferences sponsored by MDRC, the Council of the Great City Schools, and the National High School Alliance. The conference brought together leaders from 22 midsize urban school districts on June 25-26, 2007, provided a forum for practitioners to share research and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Kemple, James J.; Herlihy, Corinne M.; Smith, Thomas J. – MDRC, 2005
In low-performing public high schools in U.S. cities, high proportions of students drop out, students who stay in school typically do not succeed academically, and efforts to make substantial reforms often meet with little success. The Talent Development High School model is a comprehensive school reform initiative that has been developed to…
Descriptors: Graduation, High Schools, School Restructuring, Talent Development
Snipes, Jason C.; Holton, Glee Ivory; Doolittle, Fred; Sztejnberg, Laura – MDRC, 2006
This report describes the effects of Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) on student progress at three high schools in Houston (the initiative's original site) and at high schools in two other school districts (Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia). MDRC--a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization--conducted a third-party…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, High School Students, Urban Schools, High Schools
Roderick, Melissa – MDRC, 2006
This paper is organized around three central questions: (1) What should be the primary goals of high school reform and what is the critical set of outcomes that matter for students? (2)Shat do we know about the strategies schools could use to pursue those goals? and (3) What are the implications of these strategies for the development of high…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Attainment, Dropout Rate
