CCRC in the News
Helping Low-Income Students Navigate College
Intensive and highly targeted college preparation programs can help a small number of first-generation students excel, but they aren't enough to boost overall graduation rates, CCRC Senior Research Scholar Elisabeth Barnett told The New York Times.
As California Law Looks to End Remedial Education, New Studies Show State’s Community Colleges Showing Uneven Progress in Adopting Math & English Reforms
CCRC Senior Research Associate Jessica Brathwaite spoke to The 74 for this piece on the impact of California's law mandating that community colleges significantly reduce the number of students in developmental education.
Ambition in the Face of Failure
For the ECMC blog, CCRC Research Associate Maggie Fay describes her research on students who take remedial math courses at least once after failing the first time. Her work suggests that repeated failure does not lower all students' postsecondary ambition.
Crain's Editorial: Yes to Tri-C Levy
In this editorial, Crain's Cleveland Business argues that the community should vote to increase taxes to fund Cuyahoga Community College. They use CCRC's new guided pathways case study on Tri-C as evidence for why.
Colleges and States Turn their Attention to Slow-Moving Part-time Students
Davis Jenkins questions the value of advising students to take their time in this story in The Hechinger Report that looks at what colleges are doing to help more part-time students graduate.
Common Threads in Guided Pathways
This Community College Daily story highlights CCRC's September 2019 guided pathways report, which includes five case studies and describes the institutional change process at colleges around the country.
Census Data Inform Community College Research
The Census is a wellspring of information for community college researchers, CCRC Postdoctoral Research Associate Vivian Liu told Community College Daily.
Developmental Math Study Shows Promising Results
This Community College Daily story describes CAPR's latest report on Dana Center Math Pathways, which found that students who took DCMP developmental courses enroll in and pass college-level math courses at higher rates than students who take traditional developmental math courses.
A Gates-Funded Program Meant to Keep Low-Income Students Pushed Them out Instead
This Vox piece describes the finding's from CCRC and MDRC's July report on the expansion of the iPASS program on three campuses.
Streamlining the Transfer Process
CCRC Senior Research Scholar Davis Jenkins weighed-in on the quality of the supports available to transfer students and the challenges they face in this Inside Higher Ed story. The piece describes a new partnership in Virginia that aims to improve outcomes for transfers.