Higher Education Policy as Secondary School Reform: Texas Public High Schools after "Hopwood"

Autor/in	Domina, Thurston
Titel	Higher Education Policy as Secondary School Reform: Texas Public High Schools after "Hopwood"
Quelle	In: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 29 (2007) 3, S.200-217 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3737
DOI	10.3102/0162373707304995
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; High Schools; School Restructuring; Educational Objectives; Outcomes of Education; Affirmative Action; Educational Change; Scholarships; Grants; Court Litigation; Academic Achievement; Incentives; Educational Policy; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; High school; Oberschule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Bildungsreform; Scholarship; Stipendium; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Rechtsstreit; Schulleistung; Anreiz; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	The higher education diversity programs that Texas enacted after "Hopwood v. University of Texas" banned affirmative action had unexpected positive consequences for the state's high schools. The Texas top 10% law, the Longhorn Opportunity Scholarship and Century Scholarship programs, and the Towards Excellence, Access and Success Grant program each explicitly linked postsecondary opportunities to high school performance and clearly articulated that link to students across the state. As a result, these programs worked as K-16 school reforms, using college opportunities as incentives to improve educational outcomes at the high school level. Using panel data describing Texas high schools between 1993 and 2002, the author demonstrates that Texas's post-Hopwood higher education policies redistributed college-related activity at public high schools and boosted high school students' academic engagement. (Contains 6 tables and 4 notes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10