Career Academies Seen to Pay Off in Higher Earnings
The longest-running, most rigorous study yet of high school career academies has found that, in the long run, it pays to attend a career academy—literally.
Researchers found that, even though career academy students are no more likely than peers from traditional high school programs to graduate and go on to college, they make more money eight years out of high school than students who do not attend academies.
“That runs counter to the usual thinking, which is the more you learn, the more you earn,” said James J. Kemple, the lead researcher on the study, which was released June 30 by MDRC, the New York City-based research firm formerly known as...
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