high school – Pullias Center

Twelfth Grade Math and College Access

Leonard Wainstein, Carrie E. Miller, Meredith Phillips, Kyo Yamashiro, Tatiana Melguizo UCLA Los Angeles Education Research Institute (2023) Students’ academic preparation during high school, including the courses they take, influences their educational and economic success in adulthood. Research on the association between course taking and academic or economic outcomes consistently suggests that taking a more advanced math curriculum in high school improves students’ […]

College-Going Culture in a Digital Era: Strategies for Schools

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2018) High schools today have a unique challenge: to equip students with the knowledge and tools they need to prepare for, apply to and enroll in college—all while proving them with digital resources and skills essential for the 21st century. This guide by the Pullias Center’s Digital Equity in Education team provides a general overview of what a […]

Zooming Along: Next Steps for Data Collection

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2017) This is a follow-up report to “From Pre to Post: Putting the Data Pieces Together” (October 2016) where we presented interim findings from data collection with students and teachers at a select group of treatment schools in the randomized controlled trial study (a rigorous research design preferred by the U.S. Department of Education). Categories: […]

Launching the Mission Admission Challenge

Joint project of the Pullias Center for Higher Education (2016) An overview of activities conducted and lessons learned from the first two years of a project using online tools to help students prepare for college, with insights into the process of conceptualizing and implementing a large-scale practitioner-oriented research project. Categories: Digital Equity

Technological Innovations for College Access

Zoë Corwin, Marie Groark, Keith Frome (2015) A discussion of useful online tools, challenges, and potential ways to use technological innovations to increase college-going and completion rates. Categories: Digital Equity, College Access

First in the World: Improving Access to College through Games, Technology, and Social Media

William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin (2015) A monograph about the Pullias Center’s project to develop and disseminate a college application game in schools across California through a Web-based platform. The project offers schools online tools to actively engage students in preparing for college. Categories: Digital Equity, College Access

Getting In: Increasing Access to College via Mentoring

William G. Tierney, Lisa Garcia (2014) A report on the challenges and results of a decade of hosting the Increasing Access via Mentoring (I AM) program, which details what is necessary to maintain a successful mentoring program and what others can do to enable America’s youth to gain access to college. Categories: College Access, I AM