Improving College Enrollment of At-Risk Students at the School Level

• In Event: 29.090 - Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: 29.090-11 - Secondary and Postsecondary Persistence Among Marginalized Youth

Abstract

Many federal, state, and local education policy priorities are aimed toward preparing high school students, especially those at-risk, to be college and career ready upon graduation. A number of programs across different institutional entities have been initiated to achieve these goals, encompassing individual partnerships with schools. Many of these programs include a variety of interventions, ranging from college and course counseling to college visits. Although there have been some evaluations of the larger federal programs, and some state and district programs, few have examined national observational data on the impact of these programmatic efforts on college enrollments. This study uses the HSLS:2009 database to investigate the impact of specific treatments in at-risk schools on college enrollments.

Authors

• Heather L Johnson, Michigan State University

• Wei Li, University of Alabama

• Michael Broda, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Barbara Schneider, Michigan State University

• Ryan Nicholas Goodwin, University of Central Florida