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Belfield, Clive; Jenkins, Davis; Fink, John – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
Dual enrollment--in which students take college credit-bearing courses when still in high school--is becoming increasingly popular. Community college programs account for about 70% of the dual enrollment that more than one million high school students participate in each year nationwide. Yet dual enrollment can be a big financial burden for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Economic Factors
Belfield, Clive – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2015
This paper examines the returns to math courses relative to those in courses in other subjects for students who started their postsecondary education at community college. The limited available evidence presumes that college-level math is valuable in the labor market relative to other coursework. Using data on college transcript and earnings from…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Mathematics, Education Work Relationship, Outcomes of Education
Belfield, Clive; Liu, Vivian Yuen Ting – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2015
This paper examines the returns to math courses relative to courses in other subjects for students in community college. Using matched college transcript and earnings data on over 80,000 students entering community college during the 2000s, we find that college-level math coursework has an indirect positive effect on award completion that is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
Liu, Yuen Ting; Belfield, Clive – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
This study evaluates the postsecondary and labor market outcomes of students who attended for-profit colleges. The evaluation complements a similar study by Deming, Goldin, and Katz (2012) that found significant differences in outcomes between students in for-profit colleges and those in other sectors. In this study we use the Education…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Higher Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Longitudinal Studies
Rodriguez, Olga; Hughes, Katherine L.; Belfield, Clive – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
The Concurrent Courses Initiative (CCI), supported by The James Irvine Foundation from 2008 to 2011, funded a selection of secondary-postsecondary partnerships in California to implement or enhance career-focused dual enrollment programs. These programs specifically targeted youth who were low-income, struggling academically, or within populations…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Program Evaluation, Dual Enrollment, Vocational Education
Rodriguez, Olga; Hughes, Katherine L.; Belfield, Clive – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
The Concurrent Courses Initiative (CCI), funded by The James Irvine Foundation from 2008 until 2011, comprised eight secondary/postsecondary partnerships across California that offered dual enrollment programs with supplemental student supports. The goal of the CCI was to expand access to supportive, career-focused dual enrollment for students…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Vocational Education, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation