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Miller, Michael T.; Deggs, David M.; Hunt, Valerie H.; Robterson, Lona J.; Embry, Callie – Adult Learning, 2023
African American men have among the worst high school completion rates of any population in the United States. The consequences of dropping out of school are serious and include high levels of unemployment and incarceration. Attempts at recruiting these men to return to complete a high school credential have not been broadly successful, and the…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Program Effectiveness, African Americans, Males
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Robert Schwarzhaupt; Krissy Zeiser; Kyle Neering; Sara Mitchell; Mengli Song – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Early Colleges (ECs) are a type of rapidly growing dual enrollment program proven to be successful in helping underrepresented students get a jumpstart on their postsecondary education. To date, the most rigorous evidence on the impact of ECs has come from two lottery-based natural experiments conducted by the SERVE Center (Edmunds et…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dual Enrollment, Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement
Nguyen, Jessica Marjorie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Started in 1942, the GED test provides people a high school equivalency diploma to gain new career and educational goals. While many GED recipients state they wish to earn a college credential, few earn one, often dropping out before their second semester of college. To increase the number of GED recipients and their career and college…
Descriptors: Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Adult Education, Transitional Programs