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Odle, Taylor – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2023
This brief is part of the Affirming Equity, Ensuring Inclusion, and Empowering Action initiative. The brief describes the emerging practice of direct admissions, including how the practice has been designed, what outcomes it has produced, and considerations for policymakers debating the implementation of a direct admissions program in their state…
Descriptors: College Admission, Public Colleges, Barriers, Equal Education
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Brenna Curley; Jillian Downey – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
Alternative grading methods, such as standards-based grading, provide students multiple opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of the learning outcomes in a course. These grading methods allow for more flexibility and help promote a growth mindset by embracing constructive failure for students. Implementation of these alternative grading…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Grading, Statistics Education, Academic Standards
Sommo, Colleen; Lepe, Marco; Ratledge, Alyssa – MDRC, 2022
Open-access colleges are an important pathway to economic mobility for millions of Americans. But graduation rates at these colleges are low--for example, only 36 percent of first-time, full-time freshmen at community colleges graduate within three years. Over the last two decades, MDRC and others have conducted research to build the evidence base…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Support Services, Student Financial Aid
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Walsh, Mary E.; Adams, Shauna M.; Ferguson, Susan; Hearst, Mary O.; Jones, Jo-Viviane; Wall, Shavaun; Petsagourakis, Despina; Chung, Agnes; Shannon, Una; Theodorakakis, Maria – Journal of Education, 2021
University-community partnerships (UCPs) are increasingly utilized to address issues in education. In this article, we present reflections on best practices for child- and family-focused UCPs. These reflections emerged before, during, and after a convening that brought together representatives from five UCPs in the United States that emphasized…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Universities, Best Practices
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Schwamberger, Benjamin; Wahl-Alexander, Zachary – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2020
The purpose of this article is to highlight one unique program at a university in the upper midwest and how its PETE program formed a partnership with the homeschool community in the area. Seven key steps are outlined within this article for considering a partnership between a PETE program and the homeschool community: (1) assessing the community,…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Teacher Education Programs, Physical Education
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Taylor, Jason L.; Giani, Matt – Review of Higher Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of receiving an associate's degree via reverse credit transfer on retention and bachelor's degree attainment for students in Hawaii and Minnesota who transferred from a community college to a university before earning an associate's degree. Results showed mostly positive evidence with some…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, Bachelors Degrees
Colleen Sommo; Austin Slaughter; Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Kayla Warner – MDRC, 2023
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to overcome,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, College Students, Universities
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Brennhofer Pleski, Annamarie; Llapa, Fanny Jimbo; Pergament, Shannon; Vang, Say; Lee, Bao; Webber, Jordan; Webber, Octavia; Strom, Terri; Springer, Nora; Hearst, Mary O. – School Community Journal, 2021
Parent engagement is one approach to decrease the opportunity gap for Black, American Indian, and all children of color. This report from the field describes the use of the World Café participatory approach to support parent engagement in five early childhood, culturally embedded Montessori programs. Serving the Whole Child (SWC) is a…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Parent School Relationship
Kara J. Beckman; Angeline Gacad; Barbara McMorris – Grantee Submission, 2023
Schools are increasingly turning towards restorative practices as a pathway to building schools with stronger relationships, justice, and equity. While effectiveness studies are increasing, too little attention is focused on evaluating implementation. This resources is for audiences who evaluate implementation of whole school restorative practices…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Discipline, Justice
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Rosen, David J. – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
The focus of each Technology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges column begins with a common challenge facing adult basic skills practitioners. This article examines a technology solution to two large and related challenges: student engagement and student persistence, which, from a program or school perspective, is often described as…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Technology Uses in Education, Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence
Morton, Tiffany; Headlam, Camielle; Spencer, Briah – MDRC, 2021
College completion rates are low--nearly 40 percent of students do not earn a degree within six years of enrolling in college. Community college students face the highest hurdles--about 60 percent are without a degree six years after matriculating. Research has identified strategies that institutions can use to improve student success and degree…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Graduation Rate, Educational Attainment
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Lindsay, Jim; Davis, Elisabeth; Stephan, Jennifer; Proger, Amy – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2017
College education is fundamental to students' upward mobility, states' economic growth, and the country's economic competitiveness. Researchers have forecast that 63 percent of future jobs will require a college degree, yet in the coming years the United States will likely produce 3 million fewer college graduates than are needed to fill workforce…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Middle School Students, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Dailey, Caitlin Rose; Mean, Monica; Charner, Ivan; Jordan, Kevin; Klein, Steven – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2017
Many employers report difficulty finding qualified candidates for jobs, while millions of American workers are under- or unemployed. At the core of this issue is a startling perception gap involving the skills needed for workplace success. Postsecondary educators -- including those at community colleges -- who prepare workers live on one side of…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Vocational Education
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Lindsay, Jim; Davis, Elisabeth; Stephan, Jennifer; Proger, Amy – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2017
Ramp-Up to Readiness™ (Ramp-Up) is a program for middle and high school students that aims to provide greater depth and breadth of support for college readiness than do current supports. This study examined whether students' ACT Engage goal setting and commitment to college scale scores as well as the likelihood of key enrollment actions such as…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Middle School Students, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2019
College enrollment has increased over the past 10 years and is projected to continue growing over the next 10 for both full- and part-time students. At the same time, institutions face low retention and graduation rates. One policy that shows promise in increasing completion rates, especially for adult learners and those who served in the…
Descriptors: College Credits, Prior Learning, College Students, Educational Policy
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