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What Other Communities Are Doing...National Education Goal #2.

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Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1992

Guidelines designed to help individual communities achieve the second National Education Goal are offered in this document. The goal states that by the year 2000, the high school graduation rate will increase to at least 90 percent. Eight suggestions for creating successful dropout prevention efforts are discussed: start early; set high…

Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Community Action, Community Planning, Community Programs

Changing Courses: Instructional Innovations That Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College. Opening Doors to Earning Credentials Project Series.

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Kazis, Richard; Liebowitz, Marty – 2003

MDRC's Opening Doors to Earning Credentials Project and its early reports found that community colleges are the local educational institutions with the greatest potential for helping low-wage workers earn skills and credentials that lead to educational and career advancement. Opening Doors also identified serious obstacles to realizing that…

Descriptors: Career Ladders, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth