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Download full textSunderman, Gail L. – Abell Foundation, 2017
Dual enrollment programs offer high school students the chance to enroll in college courses and earn transferable college credit while they are still pursuing a high school diploma. Research shows that dual enrollment participants are more likely to enroll and persist in college, earn higher GPAs during college, and accumulate more college credit.…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Urban Schools, Student Participation, Equal Education
Sunderman, Gail L. – Abell Foundation, 2017
Maryland's College and Career Act of 2013 recognized the potential of dual enrollment and called for the expansion of it in the state. According to a December 2016 report to the Maryland General Assembly, however, only 2% of Baltimore City public 12th grade students participated in dual enrollment opportunities in 2015 as compared with a state…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Urban Schools, Student Participation, Equal Education
National Inst. on the Assessment of Experiential Learning, Trenton, NJ. – 1990
This document summarizes discussions held at a conference of the National Institute on the Assessment of Experiential Learning, which is concerned with prior learning assessment (PLA), a process developed for awarding college-level credit for out-of-class experiences. The conference consisted of two tracks, beginning and advanced; this format…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Credits, Critical Thinking, Educational Assessment
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2006
In spite of the fact that noncredit generates approximately 10% of enrollment in the California Community College System, many people outside and even within the system are not aware of or do not fully understand the importance of noncredit and how it serves California's educational needs. Noncredit courses are basically what its title…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, Educational Needs, Community Colleges, Adult Education
Bolton, John K. – 1990
In 1990-91, the Rockville Campus (RC) of Montgomery College (MC) in Maryland, revised its English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program to make it more responsive to student needs and begin offering ESL courses for institutional credit in fall 1991. Faculty at MC's Takoma Park Campus (TPC), however, objected to RC's proposed changes, particularly to…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Planning, Community Colleges, Credit Courses
Shelby, Thomas H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This report concerns itself with the growth and progress of "general" university extension for the biennial period 1922-1924. By general university extension is meant extension activities of universities and colleges in the fields not covered by agricultural and home economics extension under the Federal subsidy acts through the Federal land-grant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation
