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Download full textHoffman, Nancy – Jobs For the Future, 2016
Jobs for the Future and the Greater Texas Foundation's new report documents an early college program in El Paso, Texas that has enabled over a thousand students to earn a bachelor's degree, and holds lessons for early college advocates and leaders. Texas has been at the forefront of the early college movement since early college--which integrates…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Acceleration (Education), Dual Enrollment
Direct linkCollege Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2012
The CollegeKeys Compact[TM] is a national call to action to school districts, colleges and universities, state education agencies, and nonprofit organizations to identify, share and expand programs and practices that address the needs and challenges of low-income students and help them get ready for, get into and get through college. The College…
Descriptors: College Students, Low Income Groups, Economically Disadvantaged, First Generation College Students
Cerrone, Kathryn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Early College High School Initiative is a program that provides college access to first-generation, minority, low-income and other under-represented populations by allowing them to take college classes while in high school. The goal of The Early College High School Initiative is to ease the transition to college by allowing the students to…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, High School Seniors, STEM Education, Majors (Students)
Peer reviewedSmith, William L.; Zhang, Pidi – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2010
This study proposed to describe and understand the transition experiences of first-generation college students in comparison to second-generation college students by examining the frequency of activities linked to the transition process and the helpfulness of these behaviors for students at a medium-size state university in the Southeast. Parents,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, High Schools, Grade Point Average, Secondary School Teachers
Berger, Andrea R.; Cole, Susan; Duffy, Helen; Edwards, Sarah; Knudson, Joel; Kurki, Anja; Golden, Laura; Lundeen, Janet; Poland, Lindsay; Rojas, Daniela; Shkolnik, Jamie; Stone, Celeste Kline; Turk-Bicakci, Lori; Yoon, Kwang Suk; Adelman, Nancy; Cassidy, Lauren; Keating, Kaeli; Nielsen, Natalie – American Institutes for Research, 2009
The Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI) launched in 2002 with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The ECHSI provides funds for the development of Early College Schools (ECSs) that serve students who traditionally are underrepresented in postsecondary education and offers them the opportunity to simultaneously pursue a high…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High Schools, College Credits, Higher Education
Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Vargas, Joel, Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed.; Miller, Marc S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Minding the Gap" argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, High Schools
