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20 Years Of The Kalamazoo Promise: A Visual Guide To Selected Highlights, Kathleen Bolter Aug 2026

20 Years Of The Kalamazoo Promise: A Visual Guide To Selected Highlights, Kathleen Bolter

Reports

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The Kalamazoo Promise: A Piece In The Puzzle Of Housing Preferences, Kathleen Bolter, Alfonso Hernandez Apr 2024

The Kalamazoo Promise: A Piece In The Puzzle Of Housing Preferences, Kathleen Bolter, Alfonso Hernandez

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Behind The Numbers: Comparing College-Going Outcomes Of Kalamazoo Public Schools To Those Of Similar Urban School Districts In Michigan, Kathleen Bolter, Brad J. Hershbein Oct 2023

Behind The Numbers: Comparing College-Going Outcomes Of Kalamazoo Public Schools To Those Of Similar Urban School Districts In Michigan, Kathleen Bolter, Brad J. Hershbein

Reports

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The Promise Landscape In Michigan, Michelle Miller-Adams Oct 2020

The Promise Landscape In Michigan, Michelle Miller-Adams

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Promise Programs, Emergency Aid, And Strategies For College Retention, Brad J. Hershbein Feb 2018

Promise Programs, Emergency Aid, And Strategies For College Retention, Brad J. Hershbein

Presentations

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Learning From A Decade Of College Promise Scholarships, Michelle Miller-Adams, Brad J. Hershbein Oct 2017

Learning From A Decade Of College Promise Scholarships, Michelle Miller-Adams, Brad J. Hershbein

Presentations

The Upjohn Institute hosted a webinar Oct. 26, 2017 to hear from leaders in the place-based, or "promise" college scholarship movement. Funders of promise programs and local and state officials, including Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, spoke on how such programs have benefited their communities and addressed future challenges.


Cost Estimate Of A Promise Scholarship Program For The Buchanan (Michigan) Community Schools, Bridget Timmeney, Brian Pittelko, Michelle Miller-Adams Oct 2016

Cost Estimate Of A Promise Scholarship Program For The Buchanan (Michigan) Community Schools, Bridget Timmeney, Brian Pittelko, Michelle Miller-Adams

Reports

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A Second Look At Enrollment Changes After The Kalamazoo Promise, Brad J. Hershbein Jul 2013

A Second Look At Enrollment Changes After The Kalamazoo Promise, Brad J. Hershbein

Employment Research Newsletter

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The Short-Term Effects Of The Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship On Student Outcomes, Timothy J. Bartik, Marta Lachowska Aug 2012

The Short-Term Effects Of The Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship On Student Outcomes, Timothy J. Bartik, Marta Lachowska

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

In order to study whether college scholarships can be an effective tool in raising students’ performance in secondary school, we use one aspect of the Kalamazoo Promise that resembles a quasi-experiment. The surprise announcement of the scholarship created a large change in expected college tuition costs that varied across different groups of students based on past enrollment decisions. This variation is arguably exogenous to unobserved student characteristics. We estimate the effects of this change by a set of “difference-in-differences” regressions where we compare the change in student outcomes in secondary school across time for different student “length of enrollment” groups. …


Getting Started: How Much Is This Thing Going To Cost?, George A. Erickcek Nov 2011

Getting Started: How Much Is This Thing Going To Cost?, George A. Erickcek

Presentations

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Mapping The Promise: Critical Pathways, Randall W. Eberts Mar 2011

Mapping The Promise: Critical Pathways, Randall W. Eberts

Presentations

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The Kalamazoo Promise, And Enrollment And Achievement Trends In Kalamazoo Public Schools, Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts, Wei-Jang Huang Oct 2010

The Kalamazoo Promise, And Enrollment And Achievement Trends In Kalamazoo Public Schools, Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts, Wei-Jang Huang

Conference Papers

This paper examines three types of KPS trends that may represent Promise effects: 1) trends in overall enrollment, 2) trends in relative enrollment by ethnic group, and 3) trends in KPS achievement on the standardized test used by the state of Michigan for No Child Left Behind accountability, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) test.


The Kalamazoo Promise: Building Assets For Community Change, Michelle Miller-Adams Oct 2010

The Kalamazoo Promise: Building Assets For Community Change, Michelle Miller-Adams

Presentations

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Can Universal, Place-Based Scholarships Reduce Inequality? Lessons From Kalamazoo, Michigan, Michelle Miller-Adams Oct 2010

Can Universal, Place-Based Scholarships Reduce Inequality? Lessons From Kalamazoo, Michigan, Michelle Miller-Adams

Conference Papers

The Kalamazoo Promise, announced in 2005, is an innovative college-scholarship program available to every graduate of the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Public Schools. Programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, which is being emulated in cities across the United States, open new avenues for the acquisition of human capital regardless of income level or academic achievement, while facilitating the creation of new economic and social assets for the community. Following a brief explanation of the program itself, this paper examines the Kalamazoo Promise as a human capital-investment strategy and its potential as a mechanism for reducing inequality. I find that the Kalamazoo Promise …


What's New? What's Not? The Kalamazoo Promise In The Context Of Other Scholarship Programs, Michelle Miller-Adams Oct 2010

What's New? What's Not? The Kalamazoo Promise In The Context Of Other Scholarship Programs, Michelle Miller-Adams

Presentations

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The Kalamazoo Promise As A Model For An American Promise, Timothy J. Bartik, Michelle Miller-Adams Jul 2009

The Kalamazoo Promise As A Model For An American Promise, Timothy J. Bartik, Michelle Miller-Adams

Employment Research Newsletter

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A Simple Gift? The Impact Of The Kalamazoo Promise On Economic Revitalization, Michelle Miller-Adams Jul 2006

A Simple Gift? The Impact Of The Kalamazoo Promise On Economic Revitalization, Michelle Miller-Adams

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.