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Colleen Sommo; Alexander K. Mayer; Timothy Rudd; Dan Cullinan – MDRC, 2012
Postsecondary credentials are increasingly important to labor market success. Community colleges provide a key pathway to these credentials for many, including low-income and nontraditional students. Unfortunately, many community college students leave before earning a degree or credential, especially those who enter underprepared for…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Community Colleges, Longitudinal Studies
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Bifulco, Robert; Cobb, Casey D.; Bell, Courtney – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
Connecticut's interdistrict magnet schools offer a model of choice-based desegregation that appears to satisfy current legal constraints. This study presents evidence that interdistrict magnet schools have provided students from Connecticut's central cities access to less racially and economically isolated educational environments and estimates…
Descriptors: School Choice, Magnet Schools, School Desegregation, Quasiexperimental Design
Meier, Joanne D.; Invernizzi, Marcia – 1999
A study implemented and evaluated the Book Buddies model using National Service volunteers as tutors for high-risk first-grade students in a high-poverty urban setting. Using a design with a randomly assigned control group, results show that tutoring sessions produced clear effects. Children who received 40 Book Buddies lessons significantly…
Descriptors: Grade 1, High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness