The Jam conversation was structured to surface the participants’ views of what constitutes the best of Early College in both programmatic and policy terms, to link this to relevant proof points and to consider how scaling arguments would be mounted and programs actually realized at scale.
“Dual Enrollment: A Strategy for Educational Advancement of All Students” is a thoroughly researched publication of the Blackboard Institute that rigorously documents the benefits of dual enrollment, the name given to programs like those offered by the Middle College National Consortium that allow high school students to enroll in both high school and college courses [...]
Five Lessons on College Retention from Early Colleges, an article laying out the practices used in early college high schools that lead to student success in college, will be published today in Community College Week. The authors, Dr. Cecilia Cunningham and Dr. Roberta Matthews have a twenty-five year history of working together on high school/college [...]
