Scaling Career-Connected Dual Enrollment: How College and K-12 Partners Can Strengthen Pathways and Expand Opportunity
This report, featuring four associated case studies, describes key strategies and practices undertaken by innovative dual enrollment partnerships; it concludes with lessons for integrating college coursework into existing career-focused high school programs.
Dual Enrollment as an Interorganizational Field: Defining and Redefining Organizational Boundaries Between High School and College
Drawing on data from interviews and site visits at three Texas community colleges and their partner high schools, this paper examines how college and high school staff navigate boundaries between their organizations and make decisions to support dual enrollment students and courses.
Scaling Dual Enrollment Pathways to College and Career Opportunity: Five State Policy Strategies
Drawing on examples from around the country, this policy brief identifies five strategies states can use to help colleges and school districts adopt and sustain purposeful dual enrollment practices that lead to greater opportunity for students.
Dual Enrollment Momentum Metrics: Leading Indicators for Program Improvement
Through an analysis of longitudinal student data from four states, this brief introduces a set of metrics predictive of subsequent postsecondary progress that educators can use as momentum indicators for dual enrollment program improvement.
Understanding Dual Enrollment
This updated fact sheet describes the growth of dual enrollment, the various models and funding mechanisms, and steps colleges and high schools can take to make dual enrollment more equitable.