The Network seeks to ensure that many more youth complete high school, attain a postsecondary credential with currency in the labor market, and get launched on a career.
For example, I made it all the way through to my doctorate program (four years of college and two years of graduate school attaining a double master's) before ever speaking in a class.
By providing supportive environments, challenging course work, and more access to a college degree, early colleges will increase the number of young people who graduate high school, attain an Associate's degree and go on to finish a Bachelor's degree.
Increasing the average number of years of schooling attained by the labor force boosts the economy only when increased levels of school attainment also boost cognitive skills.
Studies on how education shapes adult health have largely conceptualized education as the quantity of schooling attained, coined the "vertical dimension" of education.
In the example discussed throughout this paper, the treated unit is Germany which has been reunified in 1990, the variable of interest is GDP per capita, and predictors are (pre-treatment) GDP per capita, a measure for trade openness, the inflation rate, the industry share of value added, the amount of schooling attained, and the investment rate.
Close to 55% reported that the highest level of schooling attained was no more than a high school diploma.
Education was defined as the highest level of schooling attained and was measured on an ordinal scale (no education, primary education and secondary or higher education).
"We wish to see Norfolk schools attaining the same kind of levels of attainment as in other authorities, certainly over the next three or four years".
The percentages of the 189 schools attaining one or more of the 12 SSAP criteria in each of the two surveys are presented in Table III.
