Publications
Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do
This guide for district administrators, teachers, and counselors aims to help schools and districts develop practices to increase access to higher education and details the research evidence informing its recommendations.
The Postsecondary Achievement of Participants in Dual Enrollment: An Analysis of Student Outcomes in Two States
This study uses rigorous quantitative methods to examine the impact of dual enrollment participation on students in Florida and New York City.
Dual Enrollment Policies and Practices: Earning College Credit in California High Schools
This report is intended to inform educators, policymakers, administrators, and researchers about current policies and practices that shape dual enrollment in California.
Supporting College Transitions Through Collaborative Programming: A Conceptual Model for Guiding Policy
This article provides a theoretical rationale for policymakers' support for programs that allow high school students to take college-level classes for credit.
Conducting Research to Answer Your Questions About Dual Enrollment
This summary is intended to help decision-makers understand why research on the effectiveness of dual enrollment programs is important and how policymakers can support research activities.
When the Virtual Becomes Real: Student Learning in the Virtual Enterprises Program
This report discusses findings and recommendations from a study of the New York City Virtual Enterprises International program, in which students create and run virtual businesses.
Bridging the High School-College Divide
This book chapter reviews three dominant strategies to create academic linkages between high school and college—remediation, dual enrollment, and the high school/college alignment movement.
Learning About the Role of College Student Through Dual Enrollment Participation
This paper explores whether dual enrollment helps students learn about the role of college student.
The National Academy Foundation's Career Academies: Shaping Postsecondary Transitions
This chapter examines the extent to which career academies deliver on their promises.
Pathways to College Access and Success
This report reviews findings from a study of five programs that allow high school students to take classes for college credit, or "credit-based transition programs."
Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit: Its Role in Career Pathways
This chapter in Career Pathways: Education With a Purpose explains the differences between articulation (which is predominant in typical Tech Prep consortia) and dual enrollment.
State Dual Enrollment Policies: Addressing Access and Quality Report
This report analyzes dual enrollment legislation in all 50 states and examines whether these policies promote or inhibit the spread of dual enrollment programs.
School-Based Career Development in an Age of Accountability: A Synthesis of the Literature
This literature review examines research on the effectiveness of school-based career guidance and development programs.
Promoting College Access and Success: A Review of Credit-Based Transition Programs
Focusing on dual enrollment, Tech Prep, AP, IB, and middle college high schools, this report offers a comprehensive look at the evidence base on this rapidly growing group of education initiatives.
What Role Can Dual Enrollment Programs Play in Easing the Transition Between High School and Postsecondary Education?
This article provides an overview of preexisting relationships between high school and colleges and discusses the promising initiative of dual enrollment.
Using Community Colleges to Re-Connect Disconnected Youth
This paper argues that community colleges should be a major institution helping disconnected youth reconnect to education.
The Perceptions of College Students Regarding the Factors Most Influential in Their Decision to Attend Postsecondary Education
This journal article explores the decision-making factors for students applying to postsecondary institutions, with a focus on issues related to student ethnicity.
Transition to College
This book chapter provides an in-depth account of current issues surrounding high-school-to-college transitions.
Tech Prep and Postsecondary Education
This book chapter, published in Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia, discusses issues pertaining to tech prep and postsecondary education.
School to Work Opportunities Act and Postsecondary Education
This book chapter features a credible discussion of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act.