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Rachel Baker; Eric Bettinger; Madison Dell; Gus Gluek; Kaylee Matheny; Hidahis Mesa; Alex Monday – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Condensed courses, as opposed to semester-long courses, are an increasingly popular strategy to improve equity in higher education. With condensed courses, students focus on a smaller number of courses during seven- to ten-week terms (Gullatt, 2006; Zepeda & Mayers, 2006). Historically marginalized students may benefit because the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Faculty, Minicourses
Crow, Johnny – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Comparing a small, rural school with sometimes less than 100 students to a massive inner-city school with greater than 2,500 students is crude and untenable. There are simply too many variables. Nonetheless, the No Child Left Behind Act treats these two very different schools the same. When urban and rural schools cannot meet AYP or highly…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Poverty, Federal Legislation