State Policies to Achieve the Dream in Five States: An Audit of State Policies to Aid Student Access to and Success in Community Colleges in the First Five Achieving the Dream States
This report presents the findings of an audit of state policies affecting access to, and success in, community colleges in five states.
Strengthening Transitions by Encouraging Career Pathways: A Look at State Policies and Practices
This report identifies ways in which state policies can support students’ academic and labor market success by creating coherent systems of preparation for students entering technical fields.
Implications of Educational Inequality for the Future Workforce
This paper discusses how economic, political, social, and demographic factors are changing in ways that will likely increase educational inequality in the United States and hamper productivity growth.
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.”
Is Student-Right-to-Know All You Should Know? An Analysis of Community College Graduation Rates
This working paper presents a research model that CCRC has developed to better understand the effects of institutional characteristics on student outcomes.