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Alice Qin Li – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Community colleges have been hailed as a "cornerstone of American higher education", and act as an important access point to post-secondary education for a wide range of students, particularly socioeconomically disadvantaged students and underrepresented minorities. However, community colleges have also been criticized for poor…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Remedial Instruction
Jacqueline A. Donovan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The community college baccalaureate has been around for decades but there continues a need for quantitative research regarding this policy. Contentious debate exists with regard to this policy and its proposed impacts. As this debate continues, research lacks baseline or longitudinal data with respect to the community college baccalaureate and its…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education
Alexis Gable – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Since its introduction in the early 1900s, the codification of vocational education has made explicit that one purpose of the American public education system should be preparation for the workforce. Over three-quarters of high school students participate in present-day career and technical education, nearly half of undergraduate degrees conferred…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, High Schools, Vocational Education, Learner Engagement

Elizabeth Friedmann; Sherrie Reed; Michal Kurlaender; Kramer Dykeman – Grantee Submission, 2024
High school student participation in dual enrollment--a key strategy for increasing equitable access to postsecondary education and improving readiness for college--has been on the rise in California in recent years. Despite the overall increase in participation, however, large gaps between racial/ethnic subgroups persist. Also of concern, English…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dual Enrollment, College Readiness, Racial Differences
Henneberger, Angela K.; Rose, Bess A.; Mushonga, Dawnsha R.; Nam, Boyoung; Preston, Alison M. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2023
School concentrated disadvantage has been linked to poorer academic achievement and psychosocial functioning in prior research. The current study expands upon prior examinations of school concentrated disadvantage by applying a measurement approach first described by Michelmore and Dynarski in 2017, where eligibility for free and reduced-price…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility, Low Income Students, Secondary School Students
Carlson, Deven – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2023
Thanks to rapid increases in the state's Hispanic and Asian populations, the number of Texas students classified as English Learners has surged in the past decade, from approximately 830,000 in 2010 to more than 1.1 million today. In the charter sector, change has been even more rapid. In 2010, 16 percent of charter students in Texas were…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
Juawn Antonio Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
To ensure the future success of Lower-SES, college-intending, Black students, there is a need to understand the factors that lead to their resilience, which is the heightened likelihood of success in school and other aspects of life, despite environmental adversities, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study sought to elevate the lived…
Descriptors: African American Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Socioeconomic Status
Joseph McLaughlin – Boston Foundation, 2023
This update of an annual report from the Boston Private Industry Council in partnership with the Boston Foundation and Success Boston captures one of the first looks at how the pandemic affected whether Boston Public Schools graduates enrolled in and completed college. On enrollment, the report finds that the percentage of Boston Public Schools…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Schools, High School Graduates
Gabriel Montague – Education Trust, 2023
This report analyzes access through the lens of enrollment for Black residents who are between the ages of 18-24. At The Education Trust, it is believed enrollment is just one component of higher education access, and that retention, completion, and student outcomes should be considered as well. While nearly 74% of the institutions in the sample…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Private Colleges
Guistwite, Nicole Rocchio – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explores whether there is a heterogeneous effect of high school college counselors on college application and enrollment. Most research on the impact of counselors has focused on the effect of traditional school counselors and not on high school college counselors, individuals whose primary responsibility is to assist students with…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Counselors, College Enrollment, College Applicants
Shep Stearns; Katherine E. McKee; John M. Dole; Jonathan W. Duggins – NACTA Journal, 2022
For colleges of agriculture throughout the US, recruitment and retention of undergraduate students is a matter of existential importance. We analyzed personal statements written by applicants accepted to undergraduate degrees at North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to determine what pre-university…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Recruitment, School Holding Power
Christina J. Coclanis-Loding – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There are 44 million adults over the age of 24 who hold a high school diploma, and another 35 million adults who have some college credit, but have not earned their college degree. These numbers make adult learners a viable population to attract and matriculate at community colleges. Considering the impact adult learners would have on enrollment…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Public Colleges
Christopher Campos; Caitlin Kearns – Blueprint Labs, 2021
This paper evaluates the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program in Los Angeles, a school choice initiative that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left traditional attendance-zone boundaries in place throughout the rest of the district. We study the impacts of ZOC on student achievement and college enrollment using a matched…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, School Choice, Proximity, Geographic Location
Mayra L. Fuentes – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Latina students are the least likely to succeed in college. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that motivate and influence Latina students who are first-generation in college to enroll and stay in college. In this quantitative research the following questions were used to guide the study: (1) What are the key motivational…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Community College Students
Sandra Perez; Gabriel Montague – Education Trust, 2024
In 2020, EdTrust released a report titled, "Segregation Forever?," which explored the continued underrepresentation of Black and Latino first-time, full-time undergraduates at the nation's 101 most selective public four-year colleges and universities in 2000 and 2017. The analysis revealed significant underrepresentation of Black and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Undergraduate Students, Disproportionate Representation, Private Colleges