The Impacts for Upward Bound: Final Report for Phase I of the National Evaluation

The Impacts for Upward Bound: Final Report for Phase I of the National Evaluation

Published: Apr 30, 1999
Publisher: Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research
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Associated Project

National Evaluation of Upward Bound

Time frame: 1991-2007

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Education

Authors

David Myers

Allen Schirm

Focuses on Upward Bound's effects on students during high school and the first few years of college, finding limited impacts during high school on students as a whole, but larger impacts on some groups, notably those with lower educational expectations going into the program, those with poorer academic performance as high school freshmen, and those who remain in the program for at least two years. 

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