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Download full textCyrette 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
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Direct linkMokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Florida's developmental education reform has benefitted most students directly impacted by the reform and has helped to reduce existing achievement gaps by race/ethnicity, English Language Learner status, and academic preparation in short-term outcomes like college course-taking and credit accumulation. Even though the reform was not specifically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Bozick, Robert; Mulhern, Christine – RAND Corporation, 2023
This Perspective builds on a related RAND Corporation report that describes the implementation of Findhelp at four North Carolina community colleges in 2021 and 2022. Findhelp is an online tool to connect students to resources in their communities to help meet their basic nonacademic needs. The North Carolina Community College System, with support…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Community Resources, Community College Students
Christina M. Ambrosino; Jonathan Callan; Tresa M. S. Wiggins; Michael X. Repka; Megan E. Collins – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
The burden of childhood visual impairment and disparities in access to pediatric vision care remain pressing issues in the United States. School-based vision programs (SBVPs) serve as one approach to advancing health equity. Operating at the intersection of schools and healthcare, SBVPs can increase access to pediatric vision services, improve…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Vision Tests, Access to Health Care, Partnerships in Education
Biniam Tesfamariam; Charlotte C. Gullick; Wendy Maragh Taylor; Christopher Bjork; Elizabeth H. Bradley – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Although most community college students intend to transfer to a 4-year college, few ultimately do. We sought to assess how student experiences of the Exploring Transfer (ET) program influenced transfer rates. The ET program was offered by a private, 4-year liberal arts college. Methods: We used data from a cross-sectional survey of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Transfer of Training, Transfer Policy
Angel Bohannon; Isis Owusu; Arvind Ilamaran; Marc Hernandez – NORC at the University of Chicago, 2025
Most research on community schools finds statistically significant, meaningful improvements in students' academic outcomes (e.g., GPA, test scores, high school graduation) and behavioral outcomes (e.g., attendance). This research brief presents an overview of the evidence on how community schools, when implemented effectively, can improve student…
Descriptors: Community Schools, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior
Martina Graciela Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) provide the best setting for building collective teacher efficacy (CTE). CTE has been identified as having the highest positive effect on student achievement. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore perceptions of teachers and administrators regarding the effectiveness of PLCs for building…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes
Jennifer M. Miller; Christine Harrington – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2023
Community colleges are challenged with creating and sustaining student success organizational change. Institutional-level student success reform efforts are needed to combat the unacceptably low student completion rates, but colleges often struggle to initiate and maintain organizational reforms. After many years of reform efforts, researchers…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Organizational Change, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
Anthony Peter Cuomo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Guided Pathways is a systemic reform movement focused on increasing community college completion rates and student achievement (Bailey et al., 2015b). Within the California community college (CCC) System, every college is implementing Guided Pathways, and the California Community College Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) continues to use this framework…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Racial Discrimination, Race, Barriers
Kelsey Brabo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community schools are a national initiative gaining traction due to the recent identification of the community school model as an evidence-based approach to education that satisfies requirements set forth by the Every Student Succeeds Act. The community school model centers around four pillars: integrated student support, extended and enriched…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Community Schools, Models
Goldrick-Rab, Sara; Baker-Smith, Christine; Clark, Kallie; Dahl, Sonja; Brescia, Stephanie; Williams, Tiffani – Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, 2021
Affording living expenses presents a major barrier to degree completion for many community college students. Food, affordable housing, transportation, and childcare are central conditions for learning. Yet with stagnant incomes, rising tuition and living costs, and insufficient support from financial aid and the social safety net, approximately…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Housing, Student Costs
Laura Elizabeth Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Community Partnership Schools™ are designed to serve as a positive resource center in their community, staffed with dedicated professionals committed to student success and community well-being (Coalition for Community Schools, n.d.; Ellis, 2016). Following the education model created at the University of Central Florida (UCF), the first…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary School Curriculum, Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement
Anderson, Jeffrey Alvin; Chen, Ming-E; Min, Mina; Watkins, Lara L. – Education and Urban Society, 2019
After receiving a multiyear federal grant, an urban school district and community agency that focused on family literacy implemented a comprehensive school reform initiative called Providence Full Service Community Schools (PFSCS). A host of community partners collaborated to develop the PFSCS model with the broad goal of strategically connecting…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Community Schools, Family Literacy, Partnerships in Education
Yu, Rondy; Haddock, Aaron; Womack, Tyler – Contemporary School Psychology, 2022
Traditional school models and policy frameworks have often neglected the outside-of-school factors that can impact students' academic achievement and well-being at school. However, a number of schools in the USA have been or are beginning to integrate community-based support services to address students' varied needs. School-based wraparound is an…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Community Programs, Student Needs, Coordination
Benjamin W. Cottingham; Heather J. Hough; Jeannie Myung – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2023
Student achievement in California has not rebounded after the precipitous declines of the COVID-19 pandemic, with English language arts (ELA) and math scores remaining well below prepandemic levels. Student attendance has declined dramatically, and trauma and time away from school have led to mental health challenges, delays in social development,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Collaboration, Coaching (Performance), Educational Improvement
