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Center for Research on the Education of Disadvantaged Students (CDS)

Project #13502: Career Magnet High Schools for Disadvantaged Students: Evaluation of a High School Health Professions Program

Project Description: Career Magnet High Schools for Disadvantaged Students: Evaluation of a High School Health Professions Program is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of a career magnet high school located at an inner city high school in which the total enrollment consists of African American students. The goal is to study whether career magnet programs encourage inner-city high school students to pursue challenging career goals for occupations where minorities are presently under-represented, and to prepare them to succeed in the college major fields that will lead to these careers.

Project Director: McPartland, James M.

Institution: Johns Hopkins University

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Statement of Finding(s): The High School Health Professions Program is producing successful short-term and long-term student achievements that exceed expectations for comparable populations in other schools.

Description of Finding(s): The Program students are earning regular grade promotions and completing high school at significantly higher rates than would be predicted. The students also are doing well on more far reaching criteria of success: college entrance, matriculation, and completion followed by advanced training in the health professions. Indications from the oldest student cohorts of the Program are that at least two-three students per year will enter Medical School to ultimately become doctors or achieve similar high level status in the medical professions. This indicated record of new physicians is even more impressive, given that the entire nation currently produces fewer than 1500 new African American doctors per year.

Are data from the study available? Yes

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