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Castleman, Benjamin; Goodman, Joshua – Education Finance and Policy, 2018
Though counseling is one commonly pursued intervention to improve college enrollment and completion for disadvantaged students, there is relatively little causal evidence on its efficacy. We use a regression discontinuity design to study the impact of intensive college counseling provided by a Massachusetts program to college-seeking, low-income…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Students, Enrollment
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Arnold, Karen; Fleming, Shezwae; DeAnda, Mario; Castleman, Benjamin; Wartman, Katherine Lynk – Thought & Action, 2009
Despite national calls to conceptualize education as a continuous P-16 system, most high schools cease to serve their students at the point of graduation. For their part, colleges provide relatively few students with formal bridge programs during the summer transition between secondary and postsecondary education. Even among low-income students…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, High School Graduates, College Choice, Enrollment