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Alice Li – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Despite increases in college enrollment, college completion rates have not kept up, at both 2-year and 4-year institutions. In California specifically, the 6-year graduation or transfer rate for students at 2-year institutions was only 48%. In response to the idea that students arrive at college unprepared, driving these low college success rates,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Enrollment Trends, Graduation Rate
Edmunds, Julie; Unlu, Fatih; Phillips, Brian; Hutchins, Bryan; Mulhern, Christine – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Recent policy efforts have attempted to increase the number of dual enrollment courses offered within Career and Technical Education pathways and there is evidence to suggest that this practice is widespread. However, there is very little research on student participation in CTE dual enrollment and on its impacts. This study examines participation…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Vocational Education, Student Participation, Grade 11
Hayward, Craig – RP Group, 2021
In this paper the author investigates how the one-year math throughput rate of community college students varies according to the highest level of math completed in high school, with a particular focus on the implications of successfully completing Algebra 2 while in high school. Community college math throughput rates for students with different…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Two Year College Students, Algebra, Community Colleges
Mahoney, Katherine; Reykdal, Kim – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2018
Before the 2011-12 school year, eligible students in the 11th and 12th grades were funded by the state for a combined maximum of 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) in both high school and the Running Start program each year. In 2011, the Legislature established a limit to this funding for a combined maximum enrollment of 1.2 FTE over one school year.…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Grade 12, High School Students, Full Time Equivalency
Maryland State Department of Education, 2019
The College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act of 2013 (CCR-CCA) established a number of requirements designed to increase college and career readiness as well as degree completion in Maryland. With a rapidly changing economy and a focus on increasing the percent of young adults with postsecondary degrees, the intent of the Act is to…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, State Legislation, College Credits
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
Work-based education (WBE), including traditional vocational education and other career-focused programs, was an important curricular component in American schools for most of the 20th century. The 1990s was a period of substantial change for work-based education (WBE). Spurred on by a concern about the international competitiveness of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Tech Prep, Education Work Relationship