This paper argues for a reimagining of education abroad that fuses short-term programming with some kind of experiential research component led by home campus disciplinary faculty, especially those in the sciences, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, in order to better integrate the study abroad program into the core undergraduate…

Provides a comparative analysis of the Perry Preschool project, an experimental program that delivered high quality preschool education to 58 at-risk, African American children, and the national Head Start preschool program. Finds that each program has unique strengths and weaknesses. (MDM)

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and institutional descriptions suggest that there might be an…