Part of the collected volume Colleges 2020, published by a U.K. think tank, this chapter provides an international comparison to British further education by discussing U.S. community colleges.
Prepared for a Human Resources Development Group Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), this paper discusses a range of issues relevant to the community college mission of helping prepare a skilled workforce for jobs offering reasonable wages.
This paper examines how performance funding systems in two states with long-lasting systems have changed over time and what political and social conditions explain the changes.
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.
This paper makes the case for the training hour as the basic unit of measurement for noncredit workforce education programs and proposes a taxonomy of community college noncredit activities.
Davis JenkinsShanna Smith JaggarsJosipa RoksaMatthew ZeidenbergSung-Woo Cho
CCRC examined student characteristics, course-taking patterns, and other factors associated with higher probabilities that students who require remediation will take and pass gatekeeper courses.
This report discusses findings and implications of a study commissioned by the College Board to inform the development of the Voluntary Framework of Accountability for Community Colleges.
This article examines various commonalities and divergences between the English further education system and its nearest U.S. equivalent, the community college system.
W. G. TierneyThomas BaileyJ. ConstantineNeil FinkelsteinN. F. Hurd
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.
This NCPR working paper reports findings from a study that used a detailed dataset and a regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effect of remediation on the educational outcomes of nearly 100,000 college students in Florida.
