‘Understanding the impact of job loss on student achievement has grown increasingly important given the widespread job loss that occurred during the Great Recession’ writes Andy Chiamopoulos in The Effects of Community-wide Job Loss on Student Achievement on dukespace.lib.duke.edu. (Adapted chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow)
The author evaluates the impact of the county-level job loss within North Carolina on 9 classes that keep them on-track to attend college. The authors finds that job losses that occur in the quarter immediately preceding the start of the school year increase student enrollment in courses that keep them on-track to attend college, on average.
Job loss within a community appears to increase students’ motivation, as measured by class enrollment, to prepare themselves for post-secondary education. Conversely, he finds that job losses that occur in the first calendar quarter decrease student performance in courses that keep them on-track to attend college.
The findings demonstrate that state and local policymakers as well as school officials should be aware of the influence local economic events and crises have on students’ enrollment and performance in courses that prepare them for college.
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