On Path and On Schedule: Strategies for Prioritizing Time to Completion for Community College Students
The authors of CCRC’s forthcoming book offer strategies to increase community college completion rates by ensuring students are on paths to fulfill academic requirements in as little time and at as little cost as possible.
Introducing DEEP: A Research-Based Framework for Broadening the Benefits of Dual Enrollment
A new approach to dual enrollment encourages community colleges to partner with middle and high schools to motivate and prepare underserved students to pursue a postsecondary degree in a field of interest directly after high school.
How State Systems Can Help Scale Student Success Reforms
One challenge to improving community college student success is how to scale and sustain systemic reforms across multiple institutions. In this blog post, the authors of CCRC’s forthcoming book share lessons from their evaluation of statewide guided pathways reforms and offer strategies for putting next-frontier innovations into practice.
Letter From the Director: Loss of Federal Funding to CCRC
On March 7, CCRC was notified by the U.S. Department of Education that four of its grants from the Institute of Education Sciences had been terminated. In this blog post, Thomas Brock describes the scope of the cancelled projects and the effects of the federal funding loss.
Who Has Access to Dual Enrollment and AP Coursework at Your Local Schools?
An interactive dashboard draws on multiple years of CRDC data to provide a school- and district-level view of dual enrollment and Advanced Placement access, disaggregated by students’ race/ethnicity, English language learner status, and disability status. The dashboard is meant to help college and K-12 educators as they strengthen and expand dual enrollment programs.