Publications

This report, commissioned by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) of the U.S. Department of Education, examines the rationale for federal involvement in occupational education.

This journal article describes the uneven supply of contract training by community colleges.

This report is a quantitative analysis of postsecondary occupational education students using national datasets.

This report examines community colleges' successes and failures in their role as a bridge to opportunity for disadvantaged students and discusses changes they could make to be more effective in this role.

This paper reports on a two-year research study jointly conducted by CCRC and National Center for Postsecondary Improvement that compares for-profit institutions with community colleges.

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 journal article discusses the performance of community college remedial writing students on a task that required them to compose an informational report from sources.

This chapter discusses the challenges of community colleges, trends leading to enrollment growth, and the controversy over mission expansion and offers suggestions for reform. A brief version is also available.

This book chapter examines the rise of the school-to-work movement in the late 1980s and continued throughout the 1990s, and discusses work-based learning pedagogies.