Taking advantage of lottery-like features in New York City’s high school admissions process, previous MDRC reports have provided rigorous evidence that new small public high schools are narrowing the educational attainment gap and markedly improving high school graduation prospects,...

This paper reports from a large scale action research study on gender issues emerging in the context of mathematics education. Gender equity has been a source of discussion and contention in the educational community for a number of years. In light of the under representation of women in careers...

The research site was one high school within a school district located in northeastern U.S. where the dropout rate of African American high school males was very high. A mentor-to-mentee program was implemented to help African American high school males graduate. The experiences of African...

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...

This study sought to determine the influence of the characteristics of continuous assessment on students' career choice in public secondary school in Uyo Local Government. The study focused on two characteristics of continuous assessment-cumulative and guidance-oriented. The major purpose of...

This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likelihood relative to general high school (GHS) education in Turkey using census data. To address non-random selection into high school types, we collect construction dates of the VHSs at the...