Dual Enrollment Programs: Easing Transitions from High School to College By: Thomas Bailey, Katherine L. Hughes & Melinda Mechur Karp — March 2003.CCRC Brief No. 17 New York: Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University.Research demonstrates clear economic benefits for
students who continue education beyond high school (NCES, 2001). Yet the transition from high school to college is an unsuccessful one for many. Of those high school graduates who entered postsecondary education for the first time in the 1995-1996 school year, 37 percent had left two years later without having earned a degree or certificate.
Tech Prep offers students planned career pathways
that link high school classes to advanced technical
education at colleges. These programs usually begin during the last two years of high school and continue into the first two years of college. Tech Prep has made some progress in formalizing articulation between secondary and postsecondary education (Orr, 1998; 1999; Bailey & Morest, 1998). Its growth, however, has been hampered by the perception that it is a vocational program, while the emphasis of secondary education is
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