Publications

This report describes the progress made by the 13 Pennsylvania and Washington State community colleges that comprise Round 3 of the Achieving the Dream initiative after planning and one year of implementation.

This paper examines evidence on the effectiveness of developmental education and outlines a broad reform agenda for helping students with weak academic skills.

Based on a survey of faculty and administrators at 41 Achieving the Dream colleges, this study examines what specific data college faculty and administrators use in their jobs and the extent to which they use data analysis to design and improve the impact of college programs and services.

This report presents findings from an independent qualitative review of Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative, which rewards colleges for improvements in student outcomes.

In this journal article, the authors examine how student success courses help students develop relationships that provide support and useful information long after the class is over.

This guide offers strategies for providing adults with education and training to help them access opportunities for social mobility and secure jobs that pay wages sufficient to support a family.

This paper describes how researchers used data on student characteristics and educational outcomes from several federal government sources to explore the legitimacy of the various ways that college effectiveness can be assessed by using measures of student success.

This article explores the ways that information networks are related to student persistence in the community college and how institutional structures can encourage such networks.

This study uses rigorous quantitative methods to examine the impact of dual enrollment participation on students in Florida and New York City.

This article describes lessons learned by states that are using student unit record data to improve outcomes for community college students and how states can strengthen their use of data.

This report is intended to inform educators, policymakers, administrators, and researchers about current policies and practices that shape dual enrollment in California.

This article details three key challenges that community colleges face: underprepared students, financial stress, and high dropout rates.

This paper explores some of the barriers adult basic education students face in obtaining postsecondary credentials, and how changes in federal policy can improve ABE outcomes.

In this paper, the author argues for a new paradigm in federal workforce education policy, one that privileges capacity-building over compliance.

This paper presents a typology of the institutional partnerships in which community colleges engage so that policymakers can develop fiscal and regulatory policy to support such activities.

This paper contains a summary of the National Community College Symposium, at which experts met to articulate a community college research agenda.

Based on analyses of unit record data of first-time community college students in the state of Florida, this paper examines the role of academic preparation in the transition from community colleges to four-year institutions.

In CCRC's 2008 newsletter, Director Thomas Bailey reviews CCRC's research on dual enrollment and discusses findings that suggest participation in dual enrollment and career-technical dual enrollment is associated with a range of positive postsecondary outcomes.

This guide aims to help community colleges and state agencies analyze the labor market outcomes of their programs and identify opportunities for improving students' employment outcomes.

This paper reviews the research literature on the effectiveness of financial aid, with special attention to its implications for policy.