Thomas Bailey, Founding Director of CCRC, Named Next President of Teachers College, Columbia University
Thomas Bailey, the director of the Community College Research Center (CCRC) since its founding in 1996, has been named the next president of Teachers College, where he has been an economics of education professor since 1990.
Equity and Guided Pathways: Which Practices Help, Which Hurt, and What We Don’t Know
In the director’s column for CCRC’s 2018 newsletter, Thomas Bailey discusses issues colleges should attend to as they implement guided pathways in order to ensure that these reforms help close equity gaps.
To Get a True Picture of Student Loan Defaults, Break Down the Numbers
In this video, Judith Scott-Clayton discusses new data from the U.S. Department of Education showing widely different impacts of student debt on different students.
When Discussing Apprenticeships, Keep in Mind the Big Picture
In this essay, James Jacobs outlines a view of apprenticeships where work-based learning promotes and reinforces student success more broadly.
High School-to-College Transition Courses on the Rise
What are transition courses, and why are they growing in popularity? What do we know about their effectiveness? This blog post shares findings from a CCRC scan of transition courses.