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Jason Delisle; Jason Cohn – Urban Institute, 2024
Data showing what students earn after attending higher education institutions have become increasingly available, bolstering calls from policymakers and advocates that government financial aid programs should be tied to those outcomes. Often overlooked, however, is that these data and policies usually reflect the earnings of only students who…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Attendance, Dropouts, Data Collection
Paul G. Vallas – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2024
Students who have dropped out of high school--and those at risk of doing so--are at greater risk of lifelong poverty, involvement with the criminal justice system, dependence on government welfare programs, and even premature death. In the last few years, however, the problems at high schools have compounded, as pandemic-era school closures led to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Work Study Programs, At Risk Students, Dropouts
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Chamadia, Sumaira; Mubarik, Muhammad Shujaat – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: The major objective of this study is to examine the efficacy of the technical and vocational training courses imparted to generate employment or enhance the productivity of participants. Design/methodology/approach: The study was conducted in the province of Sindh, Pakistan by adopting a quasi-experimental approach. The experiment was…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Vocational Education, Private Education, Young Adults
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Bahr, Peter Riley; Chen, Yiran; Columbus, Rooney – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
This study investigates community college skills builders--students who enroll for a short time, take courses concentrated in career and technical education (CTE), are highly successful in their coursework, but typically leave college without a postsecondary credential. Drawing on administrative data from Colorado, Ohio, Michigan, and California,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Community College Students, Academic Achievement, Skill Development
Mouganie, Pierre; Canaan, Serena; Fischer, Stefanie; Schnorr, Geoffrey C. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2022
Academic support services such as coaching and mentoring programs have shown the most promise, but only when they are implemented in a very proactive manner--when they provide students with personalized follow-up and attention. Unfortunately, these programs are often expensive, making them hard to implement or scale at a regional or national…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Coaching (Performance), Academic Probation, College Freshmen
Holland, Greg – Arkansas Research Center, 2021
This report provides students, parents, and others with employment, earnings, and other outcome information on graduates of Arkansas's state-supported public institutions of higher education. This report is intended to help readers make informed decisions about education and career choices. As specified in Arkansas Act 852 of 2015, information…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Career Choice, Employment Patterns, Outcomes of Education
Holland, Greg – Arkansas Research Center, 2019
This report provides students, parents, and others with employment, earnings, and other outcome information on graduates of Arkansas's state-supported (public) institutions of higher education. It is intended to help readers make informed decisions about education and career choices. As specified in Arkansas Act 852 of 2015, information detailing…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Outcomes of Education, State Colleges, College Graduates
Holland, Greg – Arkansas Research Center, 2018
This report provides students, parents, and others with employment, earnings, and other outcome information on graduates of Arkansas's state-supported (public) institutions of higher education. It is intended to help readers make informed decisions about education and career choices. As specified in Arkansas Act 852 of 2015, information detailing…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Outcomes of Education, State Colleges, College Graduates
Holland, Greg – Arkansas Research Center, 2017
This report provides students, parents, and others with employment, earnings, and other outcome information on graduates of Arkansas's state-supported institutions of higher education. It is intended to help readers make informed decisions about education and career choices. As specified in Arkansas Act 852 of 2015, the information specific to the…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Outcomes of Education, State Colleges, College Graduates
Holland, Greg – Arkansas Research Center, 2017
This report provides students, parents, and others with employment, earnings, and other outcome information on graduates of Arkansas's state-supported (public) institutions of higher education. This report is intended to help readers make informed decisions about education and career choices. As specified in Arkansas Act 852 of 2015, information…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Outcomes of Education, State Colleges, College Graduates
Palmer, Jeffrey Levi; Newman, Lynn A.; Davidson, Savannah; Cawthon, Stephanie W. – Grantee Submission, 2020
While most research on transition outcomes focuses on education and employment, the transition to adulthood also includes social outcomes, such as group involvement and community service. The present study examined a broader set of outcomes for young deaf adults after postsecondary education. A secondary analysis of a large-scale data set, the…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Deafness, Outcomes of Education, Employment Level
Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educational and career flexibility afforded by general academic courses. We study the effects of a nationwide high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, High School Students, Job Skills
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Garcia, Tanya I.; Fasules, Megan L. – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2018
Colorado has the second most-educated adult populace, but largely because it imports college-educated labor from other states. Almost 56 percent of Coloradans have a high-quality certificate, associate's degree, bachelor's degree, or higher. Yet at the same time Colorado has the fifth lowest high school graduation rate in the nation. The state's…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Equal Education, Achievement Gap, Access to Education
Zeidenberg, Matthew; Scott, Marc; Belfield, Clive – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2015
Of the copious research on the labor market returns to college, very little has adequately modeled the pathways of non-completers or compared their outcomes with those of award holders. In this paper, we present a novel method for linking non-completers with completers according to their program of study. This method allows us to calculate the…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Dropouts, Graduates, Community Colleges
Lu, Tham – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
Many students do not complete full qualifications in the vocational education and training (VET) system because their intention is to obtain only the particular skills they require. This can be achieved through the acquisition of skill sets; these enable flexibility in training to quickly respond to changes in the labour market. Skill sets may…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Skill Development, Employment Qualifications
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