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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
Steiger, Jessica; Fink, John; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
Research shows that earning college credit while in high school increases students' chances of going to college directly after high school and of earning a college credential. Research also makes clear, however, that access to early postsecondary opportunities is uneven, with lower rates of participation among students of color, those from…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disproportionate Representation, College Credits, Dual Enrollment
Donovan, William – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2020
Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Boston is attempting a turnaround and has been for decades. In 2016, after having been designated a Level 4 school by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), a stamp that branded it "underperforming," school officials created a plan they began…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation
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Warne, Russell T. – SAGE Open, 2017
With more than 3 million participants per year, the Advanced Placement (AP) program is one of the most popular programs in the United States for exposing high-achieving high school students to advanced academic content. Sponsored by the College Board, the AP program provides a framework in which high school teachers can teach introductory…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Program Effectiveness, High School Students, College Credits
Rodriguez, Olga; Payares-Montoya, Daniel; Ugo, Iwunze; Gao, Niu – Public Policy Institute of California, 2023
Dual enrollment, which allows high school students to take college courses and earn college credits, is an important way to expand educational opportunities, improve economic mobility, and meet California's workforce needs (Education Commission of the States 2019). However, historically it has been accessible only to high-achieving students taking…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Access to Education, Higher Education, High School Students
Rodriguez, Olga; Payares-Montoya, Daniel; Ugo, Iwunze; Gao, Niu – Public Policy Institute of California, 2023
These are the appendices for the report, "Improving College Access and Success through Dual Enrollment." Dual enrollment, which allows high school students to take college courses and earn college credits, is an important way to expand educational opportunities, improve economic mobility, and meet California's workforce needs (Education…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Access to Education, Higher Education, High School Students
Xu, Di; Solanki, Sabrina; Fink, John – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article documents the patterns of White-Black and White-Hispanic enrollment gaps in Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment (DE) programs across thousands of school districts in the United States by merging several data sources. We show that the vast majority of districts have racial enrollment gaps in both programs, with wider gaps in AP…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Dual Enrollment, College Credits, High School Students
Villarreal, Michael U. – Texas Education Research Center, 2018
The challenge and promise of postsecondary education is greater in a large, fast-growing, diverse state like Texas where the fastest-growing segments of the population are economically disadvantaged and come from communities historically underserved by higher education institutions. Recognizing this reality, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Board of Education Policy, High School Students, College Credits
Xu, Di; Solanki, Sabrina; Fink, John – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
Advanced Placement (AP) and dual enrollment (DE) are the two most popular programs that allow students to earn college credits while in high school. Researchers have noted several benefits of college acceleration programs on students' postsecondary outcomes. Particularly, these programs offer the opportunity to improve college attendance rates…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Dual Enrollment, College Credits, High School Students
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Naumenko, Oksana; Henson, Robert; Hutchins, Bryan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Funded by an Investing in Innovation (i3) Validation grant, the Rural Innovative Schools (RIS) Project is the first widespread effort to scale up the early college model by implementing it in comprehensive high schools. This paper will present preliminary findings from the evaluation of this project. The impact study uses a quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Innovation, Dual Enrollment, High Schools
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Davis, Elisabeth; Smither, Cameron; Zhu, Bo; Roth, Erin; Stephan, Jennifer; Foster, Shandu – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2017
Acceleration programs are challenging courses in which high school students can simultaneously earn credit toward a high school diploma and a college degree (dual credit). This study examined participation rates in acceleration programs and early college outcomes for the 2011 cohort of Minnesota high school graduates. Nearly half the graduates…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), High School Students, College Credits, Minority Group Students
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Deaton, Shannon – Rural Educator, 2014
This study explored the impact of the English Advanced Placement (AP) program on college success among rural Appalachian students attending four private colleges in central and eastern Kentucky: Alice Lloyd College, Georgetown College, Lindsey Wilson College, and University of the Cumberlands. A Pearson Product-Moment Correlation r and an…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, College Students, Success, Private Colleges
Edmunds, Julie A.; Grebing, Eric M.; Coyle, Victoria C.; Rosof, Laura; Henson, Bob A.; Cardwell, Ramsey – SERVE Center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2021
The College and Career Readiness Expansion project was a five-year, federally funded effort to implement early college strategies in comprehensive high schools. This report presents the results from a quasi-experimental impact study of the project and a mixed methods examination of its implementation. Results showed that the program increased the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Rochford, Joseph A.; O'Neill, Adrienne; Gelb, Adele; Ross, Kimberly J. – Stark Education Partnership, 2011
In 2002, the Stark County Preschool through College (P-16) Compact set the goal of achieving an 80% college going rate. Such a goal seemed both audacious and daunting for a community where in 2001 only 17.9% of the adults held a Bachelor's Degree, or higher, and where only 49% of all high school graduates went directly to college. Nine years have…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), High Schools, Graduation Rate, Disadvantaged Youth
Kim, Jennifer E.; Barnett, Elisabeth A. – National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching (NCREST), 2008
The Middle College National Consortium (MCNC) is one of 11 intermediary organizations awarded funds by the Gates Foundation to establish Early College High Schools (ECHSs). The MCNC is a school-practitioner network of more than 30 middle colleges (high schools located on college campuses) committed to a set of shared beliefs and instructional…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Consortia, High School Students, Academic Records
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