Smoothing the Transition to Postsecondary Education: The Impact of the Early College Model |
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| Authors: | Julie A Edmunds Fatih Unlu Elizabeth Glennie Lawrence Bernstein Lily Fesler Jane Furey |
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| Institution: | 1. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA;2. Abt Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;3. RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA;4. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;5. Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA |
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| Abstract: | Developed in response to concerns that too few students were enrolling and succeeding in postsecondary education, early college high schools are small schools that blur the line between high school and college. This article presents results from a longitudinal experimental study comparing outcomes for students accepted to an early college through a lottery process with outcomes for students who were not accepted through the lottery and enrolled in high school elsewhere. Results show that treatment students attained significantly more college credits while in high school, and graduated from high school, enrolled in postsecondary education, and received postsecondary credentials at higher rates. Results for subgroups are included. |
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| Keywords: | high school reform experimental study postsecondary education |
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