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ERIC Number: EJ739027
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Aug
Pages: 18
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0272-7757
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Smoothing the Transition to College?: The Effect of Tech-Prep Programs on Educational Attainment
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg
Economics of Education Review, v25 n4 p394-411 Aug 2006
By promoting articulation agreements between high schools and community colleges, Tech-Prep programs aim to smooth the transition to college for the middle majority of US high school students. This paper employs a family fixed effects approach to assess the effectiveness of Tech-Prep programs in increasing educational attainment. Using data from six rounds of the 1997 NLSY and controlling for both selection and within-family spillovers, I find that Tech-Prep programs help participants complete high school and encourage enrollment in two-year colleges. On the other hand, these gains come at the expense of four-year college enrollment, suggesting that Tech-Prep programs may divert students from four-year to two-year colleges in the years immediately following high school. While Tech-Prep programs appear to increase overall educational attainment, they may be falling short of their goal of promoting college enrollment among the middle majority.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Higher Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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