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Author(s):McGuinness Jr., A. C., and Jones, D. P
Title:Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Source:http://ecs.org/clearinghouse/47/85/4785.pdf
Date:2003
Organization:Education Commission of the States
Short Description:This paper urges policymakers to rethink the crucial role community colleges play in a state’s social and economic climate.
Annotation:Community colleges are typically viewed as institutions capable of providing a low-cost, open-access education and narrowing disparities that exist from region to region in a state. This paper from Aims McGuinness Jr. and Dennis Jones urges policymakers to rethink the crucial role community colleges play in a state’s social and economic climate. The report includes comparative state data and a descriptive summary of community college services, including remedial and adult education, transfer and career preparation, and general education.
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Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters
New York City's Strategy for Improving High Schools: An Overview
The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
The effects of public support on college attainment
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Multiple pathways to STEM: Examining state differences in community college attendance among Latino STEM bachelor's degree holders
Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
A national study of institutional policies for the evaluation of transfer applicants
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education
Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
The College Completion Agenda
The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report
From access to success: A funder's guide to ensuring more Americans earn postsecondary degrees
On the road to implementation: Achieving the promise of the common core state standards
Ensuring youth transitioning from foster care are connected by 25: Lessons learned from the foster care work group
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
You can't get there from here: Five ways to clear roadblocks for college transfer students
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Flexible learning options for adult students
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Education watch 2009
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Tapping America's Potential: Gaining momentum, losing ground: Progress report 2008
State indicators of science and mathematics education: 2007
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
Implications of educational inequality for the future workforce
Starting right: A first look at engaging entering students
Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule
Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropout
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care
Community colleges under stress
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Race to the top: Promising approaches to achieving college- and career-ready goals
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
Coalition for Student Achievement
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Opportunity.gov
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
IPEDS Data Center
How much are college students borrowing?
Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned
Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans
The state of learning disabilities 2009
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
College enrollment hits an all-time high, fueled by community college surge
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
The benefits to taxpayers from increases in students' educational attainment
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Foundations for success: Early implementation report
LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report
Progress and gaps in college preparation policy
Adult education for work: Transforming adult education to build a skilled workforce

 

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