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Autor/inn/en | Cheng, Albert; Peterson, Paul E. |
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Titel | School Choice and "The Truly Disadvantaged": Vouchers Boost College Going, but Not for Students in Greatest Need |
Quelle | In: Education Next, 21 (2021) 3, S.52-58 (7 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1539-9664 |
Schlagwörter | School Choice; Educational Vouchers; College Attendance; Academic Degrees; Educational Attainment; Program Effectiveness; Two Year Colleges; Disadvantaged Youth; Minority Group Students; Low Income Students; Access to Education; Mothers; Private Colleges; Intervention; Parent Background Choice of school; Schulwahl; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Mother; Mutter; Privathochschule; Elternhaus |
Abstract | This study looks at the impact of using a voucher on college enrollments and on degree attainment. The data covers a span of 21 years, which allows the ability to record college enrollment and attainment up to seven years after a student's anticipated date of high-school graduation and observe students' college-going behavior even if their education was interrupted. The analysis includes 2,634 students: a "treatment" group of 1,356 who received an offer of a voucher and a "control" group of 1,278 students who did not. The analysis considers enrollment and degree attainment at both two-year and four-year schools. The authors look at the impact of the voucher program in two ways: (1) the effect of being offered a voucher, whether it was ever used; and (2) the effect of actually using the voucher to attend a private school for some period of time. The authors find large differences in impacts between moderately and severely disadvantaged students. An offer of a voucher has no detectable benefit for severely disadvantaged students--minority students from either extremely low-income households or whose mothers did not enroll in college. However, for minority students who are either from a moderately low-income household or whose mother has attended college, being offered a voucher increases college-enrollment rates by about 15 percent and four-year degree attainment by about 50 percent. Those impacts are even larger if students use the voucher to enroll in a private school. The findings point to the limitations of half-tuition vouchers to promote college enrollment and graduation among the least advantaged students, as well as their potential value for those with access to greater fiscal and cultural resources. (ERIC). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2024/1/01 |