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Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admis­sions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain post­secondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Sommo, Colleen; Lepe, Marco; Ratledge, Alyssa – MDRC, 2022
Open-access colleges are an important pathway to economic mobility for millions of Americans. But graduation rates at these colleges are low--for example, only 36 percent of first-time, full-time freshmen at community colleges graduate within three years. Over the last two decades, MDRC and others have conducted research to build the evidence base…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Support Services, Student Financial Aid
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Rosen, David J. – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
The focus of each Technology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges column begins with a common challenge facing adult basic skills practitioners. This article examines a technology solution to two large and related challenges: student engagement and student persistence, which, from a program or school perspective, is often described as…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Technology Uses in Education, Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence
Bos, Johannes M.; Graczewski, Cheryl; Dhillon, Sonica; Auchstetter, Amelia; Cassasanto-Ferro, Julia; Kitmitto, Sami – American Institutes for Research, 2022
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation and impacts of the Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) model in its first year of implementation in 66 schools across the U.S. and to document scale-up progress during the Investing in Innovation (i3) grant period (2017-2021). The impact evaluation included 21,529 9th grade students…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers