High-School Students Are Helped by Taking College Courses, Study Finds
An October 17, 2007 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights findings from the report, "The Postsecondary Achievement of Participants in Dual Enrollment," which was authored by CCRC researchers and published by National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, University of Minnesota. According to reporter Elyse Ashburn: findings are promising news for states as many move away from limiting dual-enrollment to high-achieving students. Policy makers increasingly see dual enrollment as a way to improve the college-going rate of typically underrepresented students, and the study's data support that view. --Subscribers of The Chronicle of Higher Education can read this article in its entirety at http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/10/393n.htm |