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Direct linkKessler, Judd B.; Tahamont, Sarah; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022
Recent policy discussions have proposed government-guaranteed jobs, including for youth. One key potential benefit of youth employment is a reduction in criminal justice contact. Prior work on summer youth employment programs has documented little-to-no effect of the program on crime during the program but has found decreases in violent and other…
Descriptors: Youth Employment, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection, Crime
Download full textWestrick, Paul A.; Marini, Jessica P.; Shaw, Emily J. – College Board, 2020
This report examines the value of SAT scores for determining merit-based scholarship decisions as well as admission to highly selective academic programs such as honors programs or colleges. Results show that the SAT is a highly effective tool for predicting students' chances of earning a first-year grade point average (FYGPA) of 3.00 or higher…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Merit Scholarships, Decision Making, Competitive Selection
Thirty Years of Charter Schools: What Does Lottery-Based Research Tell Us? Discussion Paper #2023.18
Sarah Cohodes; Susha Roy – Blueprint Labs, 2023
Charter schools are highly debated in policy and political discussions about delivering public education. As "laboratories of innovation" that often use lotteries to assign spots, they hold the potential to generate rigorous evidence about effective educational practices. This paper synthesizes and summarizes findings from charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection, Elementary Secondary Education
Reardon, Sean; Baker, Rachel; Kasman, Matt; Townsend, Joe; Klasik, Daniel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
The creation of racially diverse colleges at all levels of selectivity has proven to be no small task, even with the legal use of race-conscious affirmative action. As evidenced in the postsecondary destinations of the high school class of 2004, very selective schools (those with Barron's Selectivity rankings of 1, 2 or 3) have many more White,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Student Diversity, Simulation, Models
White, Thomas G.; Grissmer, David W.; Altenhofen, Shannon; Larson, Jennifer – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
The authors are presently in the fourth year of a six-year, lottery-based randomized control trial (RCT) studying the effectiveness of nine Colorado charter schools that have implemented Core Knowledge®. Core Knowledge (CK) is a comprehensive K-8 curriculum for language arts, math, science, social studies, visual arts, and music that is intended…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Randomized Controlled Trials, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Leos-Urbel, Jacob; Silander, Megan; Wiswall, Matt – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2014
Holding a summer job is a rite of passage in American adolescence, a first rung towards adulthood and self-sufficiency. However, over the past decade, youth employment during the summer has decreased significantly. Summer youth employment has the potential to benefit high school students' educational outcomes and employment trajectories,…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Student Employment, Youth, Employment Level
