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large school-based experiment in which application assistance is incorporated into the high school curriculum for all … to 78 per cent. College enrolment increased the following school year by 5.2 percentage points with virtually all of this …-track courses in high school: the application rate for these students increased by 24 percentage points with a nine per cent …
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High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks …
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Holzer and Baum's recent book, 'Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students,' provides an excellent up-to-date review of higher education. My review first summarizes its key themes: 1) who gains from college and why? 2) mismatch and the need for more structure; 3) problems...
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large school-based experiment in which application assistance is incorporated into the high school curriculum for all … to 78 per cent. College enrolment increased the following school year by 5.2 percentage points with virtually all of this …-track courses in high school: the application rate for these students increased by 24 percentage points with a nine per cent …
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Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One...
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High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks …
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Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate models that include both student and classroom fixed...
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