Publications

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.

This article provides a theoretical rationale for policymakers' support for programs that allow high school students to take college-level classes for credit.

This summary is intended to help decision-makers understand why research on the effectiveness of dual enrollment programs is important and how policymakers can support research activities.

This report discusses findings and recommendations from a study of the New York City Virtual Enterprises International program, in which students create and run virtual businesses.

This essay describes the characteristics of community college students and discusses the role of the community college in increasing access to higher education by traditionally underserved students.

This paper analyzes how effective ATE regional centers, which work with community colleges and businesses in a single region to improve technical education, have been in meeting their goals.

This report describes how Miami Dade College is using a variety of data to make better-informed choices about the operation of student programs and services.

This working paper provides a conceptual framework for the rigorous evaluation of remedial education interventions.

This guide is intended to help researchers in colleges and state agencies use longitudinal student unit record data to create simple and meaningful statistics on student achievement.

This study examines the ways that student support services in community colleges inadvertently perpetuate and legitimate disadvantage.