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Minina, Elena; Yanbarisova, Diana; Pavlenko, Ekaterina – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2020
Drawing on the data provided by Russian panel study 'Trajectories in Education and Careers' (TrEC), we explore the different rationales pupils employ in deciding their education path in grade nine. Drawing on the relative risk aversion theory we show how young people's decision-making logics are aimed at class maintenance and risk management.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Risk, Track System (Education)
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Arnold, Karen D.; Mihut, Georgiana – Teachers College Record, 2020
Context: Educational reform efforts have taken the form of different school models intended to reduce educational inequality. Personalized, interest-based schools and academically focused, "No Excuses" schools are two leading small-school designs with sharply contrasting approaches to innovation. Given mixed research findings about the…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, High Schools, Equal Education, Models
Custer, Bradley D. – Center for American Progress, 2020
It has long been recognized that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented at America's top public universities and thus deprived of access to the institutions with the best graduation rates and career outcomes. Much less understood is whether these students at least have equitable access to their local community colleges, which are supposed…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Access to Education, Equal Education, Minority Group Students
Bloomfield, Amber; Rose, Bess A.; Preston, Alison M.; Henneberger, Angela K. – Association for Institutional Research, 2020
Brain drain--the movement of high school and college graduates out of state for employment--is a concern for state policymakers. This study focuses on brain drain of students who graduate from high school in Maryland. Using data from the Maryland Longitudinal Data System and applying propensity score matching to control for differences between the…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Migration Patterns, Relocation, Student Mobility
Reddy, Vikash; Siqueiros, Michele; Itzkowitz, Michael – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2020
In a year that has upended higher education and created great uncertainty, it is more important than ever for students to understand which colleges payoff and how quickly. In April of 2020, Third Way released a report outlining the use of a Price-to-Earnings Premium (PEP) to evaluate the value of attending college and help students assess and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, College Attendance, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Thrash, Courtney; Heard, Holly; Kennedy, Camila Cigarroa; Hanson, Vansa Shewakramani – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
This study examines the relationship between Cycle 1 of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) College Success Initiative and students' preparation for, enrollment in, and persistence in college. Rates of FAFSA submission, two-year applications, four-year applications, and on-time college enrollment all significantly increased during Cycle…
Descriptors: Correlation, School Districts, Program Effectiveness, College Readiness
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Evans, Brent J.; Boatman, Angela – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Although the literature offers evidence of students' aversion to borrowing for postsecondary education, it offers no insight into whether such attitudes are mutable. Through a blocked, cluster-randomized controlled trial in six diverse high schools in Louisville, Kentucky, we test whether providing student loan and repayment information affects…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Student Financial Aid, Student Attitudes, Loan Repayment
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Pelts, Michael D.; Albright, David L.; McDaniel, Justin; Godfrey, Kelli – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: Little is known about the health status of the diverse population of student service members and veterans (SSM/V) enrolling in higher education in great numbers. The objective of this study was to explore the differences in physical health characteristics by sexual orientation among a national sample of SSM/V. Methods: Using secondary…
Descriptors: Veterans, College Students, Physical Health, Sexual Orientation
Ryan, Sarah; Junker, Brian W. – Youth & Society, 2019
Through the development and field testing of an instrument designed to measure youth social capital in the context of postsecondary transitions, this research addresses the need for theory-driven measures of social capital among youth. The results offer preliminary evidence that dimensions of youth social capital, including network structure and…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Measurement Techniques, Social Networks, Student Adjustment
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Akiona, Loea – Educational Perspectives, 2019
Native Hawaiian males are not attending college at rates comparable to other males in Hawai?i. Nearly 30 percent of the total male population in Hawai?i over the age of twenty-five hold a bachelor's degree or higher (OHA, 2017). When looking at Native Hawaiian men in this age group, only 15 percent hold a bachelor's degree or higher (OHA, 2017).…
Descriptors: Males, Higher Education, Hawaiians, Student Attitudes
Penn, Charisse T. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine persistence factors of Minority and White female students at "three rural community colleges in Ohio. The study also examined the demographic characteristics of female Ohio rural community college students." The independent variables in this study were race (White, Minority), gender,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Females, White Students, Minority Group Students
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad J.; Lachowska, Marta – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2017
We estimate the effects on postsecondary education outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise, a generous, place-based college scholarship. We identify Promise effects using difference-in-differences, comparing eligible to ineligible graduates before and after the Promise's initiation. According to our estimates, the Promise significantly increases college…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Program Effectiveness
Hamilton Project, 2017
A college degree is increasingly necessary in today's economy. Federal policy makers have attempted to encourage college attendance and degree attainment through financial aid provided to students. However, this aid has generally been unsuccessful in raising degree attainment rates, which remain quite low and have not risen for the past 20 years.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Federal Aid, Grants, Academic Degrees
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Pinchak, Nicolo P. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
This study uses data from wave one of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health to analyze the relationship between middle and secondary school students' perceptions of their teachers, or "teacher regard," and students' expectations for college attendance. Variation in this relationship is further examined by…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship
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Hudacs, Andrew – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2020
Although some studies have explored the influence of academic achievement on rural students' college access and success, little research has analyzed the relationship between students of different types of rural communities and their persistence in postsecondary education. This study examined the likelihood of college-going students from three…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Academic Persistence
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