Publications

This paper argues that community colleges should be a major institution helping disconnected youth reconnect to education.

This journal article explores the decision-making factors for students applying to postsecondary institutions, with a focus on issues related to student ethnicity.

This book chapter features a credible discussion of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act.

This book chapter discusses issues pertaining to tech prep programs, which link students’ secondary and postsecondary education experiences and help ...

This book chapter provides an in-depth account of current issues surrounding high-school-to-college transitions.

This article analyzes the roles of counselors in the Puente program, a high school intervention designed to improve guidance and counseling for disadvantaged high school students.

This book chapter, published in Community Colleges: Policy in the Future Context, offers insight into the future direction of policies shaping K-14 education.

This paper and related brief discuss the problem of high school students' failure to prepare for college demands; policy reforms are suggested.

Drawing on site visits to four community colleges, this paper examines how community colleges are responding to workforce preparation pressures.

This book chapter, published by the American Youth Policy Forum, discusses shaky prospects for successful passages to productive adult lives.