| | | Recent Publications | | Continuity and Change in Long-Lasting State Performance Funding Systems for Higher Education: The Cases of Tennessee and Florida (CCRC Working Paper No. 18)This paper examines the ways that performance funding systems in two states with long-lasting systems--Tennessee, which pioneered performance funding in 1979, and Florida, which launched it in 1994--have changed over time and what political and social conditions explain the changes. View AbstractPromoting Gatekeeper Course Success Among Community College Students Needing Remediation: Findings and Recommendations from a Virginia Study
(Summary Report)This summary report discusses a CCRC study that examined student characteristics, course-taking patterns, and other factors associated with higher probabilities that students in Virginia community colleges who require remediation will take and pass math and English gatekeeper courses.View AbstractReferral, Enrollment, and Completion in Developmental Education Sequences in Community CollegesUsing a longitudinal dataset from Achieving the Dream colleges as well as NELS data, this article analyzes patterns and determinants of student progression through sequences of developmental education starting from initial referral.View AbstractPerformance Accountability Systems for Community Colleges: Lessons for the Voluntary Framework of Accountability for Community CollegesThis report discusses findings and implications of a study commissioned by the College Board to inform the development of the Voluntary Framework of Accountability for Community Colleges. CCRC researchers identified the performance indicators that states are already using for their community colleges and interviewed state higher education officials and local community college leaders on their experiences with the collection and use of such performance data.View Abstract | | View all publications > |
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| Long Road to 'Gatekeeper' CoursesAn article in Inside Higher Ed features findings from CCRC's study on community college "gatekeeper" courses. | | Access to What?An Inside Higher Ed article reports that the Nevada System of Higher Education may soon be considering limiting enrollment at its community colleges. CCRC director Thomas Bailey is quoted in the article. |
| Did You Know? | Dual enrollment, in which high school students enroll in a college-level course and potentially earn college credit, is widespread. Ninety-eight percent of public 2-year institutions had high school students enrolled in college courses during the 2002-2003 academic year.
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