Recently, many states have adopted legislation that facilitates easier access to career and technical education (CTE) pathways and career exposure in high school. Technology-based advising tools offer assessments designed to help students measure their own aptitudes and explore career and educational pathways aligned with those aptitudes. To…

In the United States today, more jobs than ever before require at least some postsecondary education. Yet too many young adults are either not enrolling or not succeeding in college. This scenario exists across many different types of communities, but schools in rural areas, particularly those with large populations of low-income students, face…

This paper examines how controlling statistically for baseline covariates (especially pretests) improves the precision of studies that randomize schools to measure the impacts of educational interventions on student achievement. Part I of the paper introduces the concepts, issues, and options involved. Parts II and III present empirical findings…