Do Career Education and Financial Aid Early in High School Increase Access to Postsecondary Education?

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Abstract

The Future to Discover Pilot Project was designed to find out what happens when a new program offers incoming Grade 10 students a guarantee of a generous student aid grant or three years of enhanced career education programming. It reports on a randomized trial established to determine the impacts of these two interventions on participation in post-secondary education. Early findings suggest that the programs were implemented with high fidelity. This paper provides evidence of impacts on several intermediate outcomes including awareness of post-secondary options and participation in post-secondary education.

Authors

• Marc Frenette, The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation

• Reuben Ford, The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation

• Heather Smith Fowler, The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation

• Claudia Nicholson, The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation

• Isaac Kwakye, The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation