The Potential of Community Colleges as Bridges to Opportunity for the Disadvantaged: Can It Be Achieved on a Large Scale?
This report examines community colleges’ successes and failures in their role as a bridge to opportunity for disadvantaged students and discusses changes they could make to be more effective in this role.
Developing Work-Based Learning Pedagogies
This book chapter examines the rise of the school-to-work movement in the late 1980s and continued throughout the 1990s, and discusses work-based learning pedagogies.
Credentials, Curriculum, and Access: The Debate Over Nurse Preparation
This monograph explores the nurse licensure debate, what is known about the programmatic differences between pre-licensure programs, and research on the job performance of ADN- and BSN-educated nurses.
Learning and Earning in the Middle: The Economic Benefits of Sub-Baccalaureate Education
This report reviews the available evidence on the economic benefits of postsecondary education below the level of the baccalaureate degree, concentrating on the effects of community colleges.
Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations From an Instrumental Case Study (Parts I-IX)
This nine-part series presents case material from a study of curriculum and pedagogy for integrated instruction in seven community colleges across the country.