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Velez, Erin Dunlop – National Association for College Admission Counseling, 2020
Among the first to demonstrate that school counselors have a positive impact on student outcomes that is both quantifiable and statistically significant, this study provides a powerful tool for counselor advocacy efforts. Using nationally representative, longitudinal data collected by the US Department of Education, findings show that high school…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, School Counselors, High School Students, College Attendance
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Oymak, Ceylan – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
As they think about their future, high school students can face a wide range of education and career choices. How do they choose? Who helps young people make their educational and career choices? In particular, to what extent do schools help students with these decisions? Given the importance of education and career decisions for life success,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Career Choice, Influences
Geay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative correlation observed in the raw data is mainly an…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Sassi, Franco; Devaux, Marion; Church, Jody; Cecchini, Michele; Borgonovi, Francesca – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
An epidemic of obesity has been developing in virtually all OECD countries over the last 30 years. Existing evidence provides strong suggestions that such epidemic has affected certain social groups more than others. In particular, education appears to be associated with a lower likelihood of obesity, especially among women. A range of analyses of…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Obesity, Probability