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[http://eepa.aera.net](http://eepa.aera.net)  \nWhat Happens When You Combine High School and College? The Impact of the Early College Model on Postsecondary Performance and Completion  \nJulie A. Edmunds  \nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro  \nFatih Unlu  \nRAND Corporation  \nJane Furey  \nUniversity of Michigan  \nElizabeth Glennie  \nRTI International  \nNina Arshavsky  \nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro  \nEarly colleges are a new model of schooling in which the high school and college experiences are merged, shortening the total amount of time a student spends in school. This study uses a lottery-based experimental design to examine the impact of the model on longer term outcomes, including attainment of a postsecondary credential and academic performance in 4-year institutions. Results show that a significantly higher proportion of early college students were attaining postsecondary credentials. The results also show that early college students were completing their degrees more rapidly but that their performance in 4-year institutions was still comparable with the control students.  \nKeywords: high schools, postsecondary education, educational reform, experimental design, mixed-methods, multisite studies  \nThe U.S. economy is dramatically changing in the 21st century with new, emerging careers, most of which will require some schooling beyond high school (Carnevale & Desrochers, 2003; Carnevale et al., 2010). Yet too many high school students do not enroll in and graduate from college. An estimated 70% of high school graduates immediately enter postsecondary education, and only about half of them (49%) attain some typeof postsecondary credential within 6 years (Ross et al. , 2012) . The problems are particularly acute for students with fewer means (Bailey & Dynarski, 2011; Louie, 2007) . For example, first-generation college-goers are almost half as likely to go to college and to obtain a degree as students whose parents attended college (Redford & Hoyer, 2017) . Bachelor’s degree attainment  \nrates for Black and Hispanic students are approximately 20 percentage points lower than for White students (Ross et al., 2012). This means that many individuals are currently shut out of the opportunities and advantages that postsecondary education can bring.  \nEducators and policymakers have been seeking to increase the number of students enrolling and succeeding in college by implementing a variety of interventions at both the high school and postsecondary levels. High school-level activities have included efforts such as changing the high school graduation requirements to increase students’ likelihood of completing the courses needed for college (Edmunds & McColskey, 2007; Tierney et al., 2009); interventions designed to build students’ aspirations to go to college and  \nEdmunds et al.  \ntheir college readiness skills (Swanson et al., 1995); expanding access to college-level courses through dual enrollment and Advanced Placement (Iatarola et al., 2011; Long et al., 2012; Speroni, 2011); and providing assistance to help students complete the logistical steps associated with applying to and enrolling in college (Castlemanet al., 2014, 2015) . Postsecondary-level interventions include tutoring and counseling, financial aid, efforts to increase students’ sense of belonging in college, as well as more comprehensive interventions that combine multiple factors, such as “living and learning communities” or interventions that couple financial aid with required academic supports (Anderson & Goldrick-Rab, 2018; Angrist et al., 2016; Denning et al., 2019; Perna & Leigh, 2018) . These interventions are primarily targeted at addressing specific student needs and are done w","cbCaiuf1y7Lt5Iqa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuf1y7Lt5Iqa","pdf",496344,22,"English","# Early college model overview\n## Student access and expected outcomes\n# Background: barriers to college enrollment and completion\n## Inequities by means and race/ethnicity\n# Policy interventions before early college\n## High school and postsecondary approaches\n# Study design and key findings\n## Credential attainment and degree completion\n## Academic performance in 4-year institutions","[{\"question\":\"What is the early college model?\",\"answer\":\"It integrates high school and college experiences, shortening the time students spend in school. 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