Holzman, B., Wu, J., Zhang, M., Martinez, M., Stice, K.. (2020)
Tracking Eighth Graders’ Post-Secondary Outcomes in Texas
https://www.uh.edu/education/research/institutes-centers/erc/project-policy-briefs/policy-brief-001c-holzman_dec2020.pdf.
This study tracked college and workforce outcomes for public school students in Texas who began eighth grade in the fall of 1998. Students were tracked for 17 years, through the summer of 2015, when they were approximately 30 years old. Of the 267,358 eighth-grade students in Texas in the fall of 1998, 29 percent finished a postsecondary certificate or degree. Female, white, Asian and non-economically disadvantaged students were more likely to earn a postsecondary credential than male, Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students.