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Topic Area: Career Academies
Findings:
Career Academies produced strong and sustained increases in students’ post-high school earnings. These impacts were concentrated among young men.
Career Academies did not increase educational attainment.
Implementing all three program components proved somewhat challenging.
Kemple, J., & Roch, J. (1996). Career Academies: Early implementation lessons from a 10-site evaluation. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
Kemple, J., & Snipes, J. (2000). Career Academies: Impacts on students’ engagement and performance in high school. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Kemple, J. (2004). Career Academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Kemple, J., & Willner, C. (2008). Career Academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Kemple, J. (2001). Career Academies: Impacts on students’ initial transitions to post-secondary education and employment. New York: MDRC
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Maxwell, N., & Rubin, V. (2000). High School Career Academies: A Pathway to Educational Reform in Urban School Districts? Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
Maxwell, N. (2001). Step to College: Moving from the High School Career Academy through the 4 Year University. Evaluation Review, 25(6), 619–654.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Maxwell, N., & Rubin, V. (1997). The relative impact of a Career Academy on post-secondary work and education skills in urban, public high schools. Hayward, CA: The Human Investment Research and Education Center discussion paper.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Maxwell, N., & Rubin, V. (2001). Career academy programs in California: Outcomes and implementation. Berkeley, CA: California Policy Research Center.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
