CCRC in the News
Rethinking Remedial Education: New Study Shows College Students Did Better in ‘Corequisite’ Courses Built Around Extra Instruction and Support
This story from The 74 summarizes CCRC's November 2019 working paper on the causal effects of system-wide corequisite reform. CCRC's Florence Ran described her findings, which indicate that corequisite remediation effectively improves gateway course outcomes.
Florida Colleges Meet Developmental Ed Challenge
In this Community College Daily story, CCRC's Nikki Edgecombe discusses the effects of a 2013 Florida law that overhauled developmental education, emphasizing that research has shed light on what students are capable of and underscored the need for interventions to work in tandem.
As More Colleges Experiment With Online Remediation, Some Students Flourish While Many Others Fall Behind
In Chalkbeat, CCRC’s Nikki Edgecombe and Maggie Fay discuss the potential for computer-based developmental education courses, as well as the types of students who tend to struggle in them.
New Numbers Show More Colleges Using High School Grades, Not Just Standardized Tests, to Determine If Students Require Remedial Coursework
This article from The 74 summarizes CAPR’s landscape study, which takes stock of the developmental education offerings at community colleges across the country.
Effects of Dual Enrollment
Inside Higher Ed summarizes CCRC’s latest working paper, which explores how an increase in dual enrollment students in a given class affects short- and long-term academic outcomes for their non-dual-enrollment peers.
Study Spotlights Outcomes for Community College Transfer Students
CCRC Senior Research Associate John Fink spoke to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education for this story about transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions. Fink noted that it’s important to destigmatize open-access, two-year schools, where transfer has always been part of the mission.
One Way to Graduate College With Less Debt
CCRC Senior Research Scholar Davis Jenkins discussed the benefits of taking college classes while in high school in this CNBC story about a dual enrollment program in Louisiana.
Experts: Collaboration Essential to Advance Remedial Education
This Diverse: Issues in Higher Education article summarizes the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness conference and highlights CCRC Senior Research Scholar Nikki Edgecombe’s contributions to the work.
CSCU's Transfer Ticket to Nowhere
In this op-ed, John Mullane, president and founder of College Transfer Solutions, describes the challenges students in Connecticut face when they try to transfer from a community college to a four-year institution. He cites CCRC's Tracking Transfer report to make the case that Connecticut should institute new policies to help students navigate this process.
Majority of American Teenagers Believe a High School Diploma Is Enough to Succeed
A recent poll of teens and young adults found that many young Americans believe they don't need a postsecondary education to get a good job. But in this Market Watch story, CCRC Director Thomas Brock pushed back against the idea that a high school diploma is enough to reach the American middle class. This story, which was written by the Associated Press, was published by several other outlets across the country, including USA Today.
