American Honors: The Life and Death of a Public-Private Partnership
In 2012, Quad Learning partnered with two community colleges to pilot American Honors, a program designed to help academically talented community college students overcome the challenges of transferring to more selective four-year destinations. This paper traces the components of the program’s socially conscious theory of change, its for-profit business model, and the tensions between the two.
Math Pathways: Expanding Options for Success in College Math
This brief, written in collaboration with the Education Commission of the States, describes three math pathways models, lays out the evidence for their effectiveness, and gives recommendations for the effective implementation of math pathways.
Ease of Access and Usefulness of Transfer Information on Community College Websites in Texas
This paper assesses the degree to which community college websites present challenges for students looking for information on how to transfer to a four-year institution.
Policy Levers to Strengthen Community College Transfer Student Success in Texas
Based on three sets of analyses, this report to the Greater Texas Foundation recommends ways that state policy could help to improve outcomes for community college transfer students in Texas.
Lessons From the Corridors of College Success Initiative: An Introduction
Collective impact is a place-based model of educational and social intervention that aims to shift responsibility for improvement in outcomes from …