More than a million high school students are taking dual enrollment (DE) courses each year to get a jump start on college and career success, yet persistent gaps in access have limited the benefits of DE reaching those who could use it most. Reform efforts are underway to redesign DE as a more intentional and equitable opportunity, but what do DE…

In 2016, Illinois initiated a statewide transitional math program to support students to be academically ready in college-level math before graduating from high school. This qualitative study focuses on the perspective of community college faculty and administrators on the statewide implementation of transitional math programs. We find that a…

Despite the link between school-lunch participation and student health, only half of adolescents with the program in their schools participate on a given day. A multi-pronged school lunch promotion intervention was implemented in middle and high schools in an urban, low-income school district to improve school lunch participation and reduce food…