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Download full textScrivener, Susan; Bloom, Dan; LeBlanc, Allen; Paxson, Christina; Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Sommo, Colleen – MDRC, 2008
This report discusses the implementation of the Opening Doors Learning Communities and its effects on students up to two years after they entered the study. Freshmen in this "learning community" at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, moved more quickly through developmental English requirements, took and passed more courses,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Control Groups, Educational Objectives, Community Programs
Scrivener, Susan; Coghlan, Erin – MDRC, 2011
Only one-third of all students who enter community colleges with the intent to earn a degree or certificate actually meet this goal within six years. MDRC launched the Opening Doors Demonstration in 2003--the first large-scale random assignment study in a community college setting--to tackle this problem. Partnering with six community colleges,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Synthesis, Academic Achievement, Evaluation
