Community College and High School Partnerships
Prepared for the 2010 White House Summit on Community College, this brief discusses partnerships that promote college enrollment, college readiness, and postsecondary persistence.
Dual Enrollment: Postsecondary/Secondary Partnerships to Prepare Students
This article describes some of the ways in which dual enrollment requires the engagement of college faculty with high school personnel and their students, and it reviews the challenges and potential benefits of these relationships.
Collaborating to Create Change: How El Paso Community College Improved the Readiness of Its Incoming Students Through Achieving the Dream
This report describes how this Achieving the Dream college collaborated with the University of Texas at El Paso and 12 local independent school districts in the El Paso area to develop and bring to scale an improved process for helping high school students prepare for entry into college.
Student Participation and Performance on Advanced Placement Exams: Do State-Sponsored Incentives Make a Difference?
Based on analysis of nationally representative AP exam data taken from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, this article examines whether incentives provided to students, teachers, and schools help students enroll and succeed in AP exams.
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.