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Nov 16, 2020 · We examine whether the El Dorado Promise, a guaranteed college scholarship program for students in the El Dorado School District (EDSD), affected elementary and middle school achievement using a quasi-experimental matching design.
- Jennifer Ash, Elise Swanson, Gary Ritter
- 2021
In 2007, concerned about population loss, low academic achievement, and low rates of college attendance, community leaders and Murphy Oil executives announced the El Dorado Promise, a universal college scholarship program modeled after the Kalamazoo Promise in Michigan (Moreno, 2007).
the El Dorado students and, more importantly, have the same “pre-Promise” level of academic achievement. Therefore, if we find that the El Dorado students outperform their “matched twins” in the years following the 2007 announcement, we can view these differences as estimates of the impact of the El Dorado Promise program.
academic achievement. In 2007, the El Dorado School District and Murphy Oil announced a bold strategy to ad-dress these challenges: the El Dorado Promise. The El Dorado Promise is a place-based scholarship. The Promise guar-antees that every student who gradu-ates from the El Dorado School Dis-trict and who attended El Dorado
School leaders in El Dorado hoped that the enhanced access to college would increase student interest, engagement, and achievement throughout the school district. In this study, I use one-to-one student-level matching to estimate the impacts of the El Dorado Promise on student achievement and high school graduation.
- Jennifer W. Ash
- 2015
Understanding the strong correlation between overall academic achievement and a community’s economic vitality and quality of life, the Promise is an investment in El Dorado’s greatest resource: our children.
Apr 24, 2014 · A new study released by the University of Arkansas’ Office for Education Policy found positive impacts of the Promise on district enrollment and academic achievement. After the Promise was announced in 2007, El Dorado Public Schools’ enrollment increased after a decades-long decline in numbers, while enrollment in other Union County ...
