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Lena Novak; Claudia Escobar; Noor Amanullah; Makoto Toyoda; Rebekah O’Donoghue – MDRC, 2025
In the United States, many community college students--about 68 percent--enroll part-time, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Unfortunately, graduation rates for part-time students are low. Only 19 percent of people who begin attending community college as part-time students graduate within six years, compared with 36…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Community College Students, Educational Practices, Academic Persistence
Zhu, Pei – MDRC, 2019
Educational practices that prove effective often involve a substantial investment of training and support time. Unfortunately, that is the very characteristic that makes it difficult and costly to expand the programs on a large scale. A key challenge when scaling up is to maintain high levels of effectiveness at an affordable cost.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Program Effectiveness, Individualized Instruction, Faculty Development