Many of the democratizing opportunities provided by community colleges are diminished in
the eyes of policy makers by inadequate rates of success. In particular, large proportions of …

Most of the authors in this issue of Future of Children focus on a single strategy for helping
both adults and children that could become a component of two-generation programs …

Abstract The City University of New York's comprehensive ASAP program nearly doubles
the three-year graduation rate for developmental education students in community college …

Nationwide, graduation rates at community colleges are discouragingly low. This
randomized experiment provides evidence that graduation rates can be increased …

Many students arrive at college unprepared to do college-level work, facing a host of college
readiness assessments and developmental education coursework. In this article, we …

Despite decades of research on the benefits of educational expectations, researchers have
failed to show that unrealized plans are consequential for mental health, as self-discrepancy …

In this paper we investigate how participation in the Early Assessment Program, which
provides California high school juniors with information about their academic readiness for …

Community colleges play a vital role in postsecondary education, enrolling more than one in
every three postsecondary students. While their importance has grown over the past 50 …

Background/Context Over the past half century, scholars in a variety of fields have
contributed to our understanding of the relationship between higher education and social …

Broad higher education contexts shape how community college students and postsecondary
personnel approach transfer from community colleges to baccalaureate-granting institutions …