Powerful Pathways: How High School Cultures Promote College and Career Awareness, Readiness, and Success

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This grant will enable the American Institutes for Research to undertake an experimental study to determine the impact of school culture on promoting and influencing college and career awareness, readiness, and success for low-income students in Michigan. The grantee will identify a sample of eight academically successful Michigan high schools similar in size, academic performance, and socioeconomic status to compare and distinguish key differences in school culture as they relate to student success in school and after graduation. Recommended support will allow the grantee to test the efficacy of school culture in promoting life-long learning and apply findings from the study to improve the educational experiences of all high school students in Michigan.