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Download full textColin Hill; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo – MDRC, 2025
Obtaining a degree from a community college is a strong pathway to numerous career opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds. Unfortunately, graduation rates from community colleges are often very low, so many students do not reap the benefits of a degree. With the goal of increasing graduation rates, three community colleges in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Acceleration (Education), Models
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
Megan Schwartz – MDRC, 2025
For decades, most states have made a practice of giving citizens returning from prison or jail a small amount of money, called "gate money," to cover the cost of transportation and other immediate needs. Many legislatures have considered increasing the dollar amount of their cash assistance and offering this kind of support more widely.…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Recidivism, Financial Support, Pilot Projects
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
Michael J. Weiss; Colleen Sommo; Colin Hill; Veronica Minaya-Lazarte; Judith Scott Clayton; Christine Brongniart; Zineta Kolenovic – MDRC, 2025
CUNY ASAP is a three-year program offering comprehensive student support, financial aid, and structured pathways. The program has served over 100,000 students since 2007 and been replicated across seven states. ASAP's primary goal is to increase the completion of college associate degrees. Specifically, the comprehensive intervention is expected…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Academic Support Services, Guided Pathways
Marissa Strassberger; Barbara Condliffe – MDRC, 2024
High-dosage tutoring-defined as consistently scheduled tutorials during the school day in which students work with a trained tutor in small groups (for example, four students to one tutor) at least three times per week--is among the most promising educational interventions for improving student learning. Despite their appeal, high-dosage tutoring…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Tutors
Direct linkMervett Hefyan; Maya Goldberg; Emily Swinth – MDRC, 2023
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, home visiting programs were faced with an unprecedented challenge: How do you deliver home visiting services without visiting homes? One home visiting model--Child First--quickly pivoted to telehealth, offering caregivers the option to receive services virtually. Child First has since resumed delivering…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Home Visits, Access to Health Care
Weiss, Michael J.; Unterman, Rebecca; Biedzio, Dorota – MDRC, 2021
Some education programs' early positive effects disappear over time. Other programs have unanticipated positive long-term effects. Foundations warn of the dangers of putting too much weight on in-program effects, which, they say, often fade after a program ends. This Issue Focus tackles the topic of post-program effects in postsecondary education.…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, College Credits, Program Evaluation
Sarah Salimi; Shelley Rappaport; Crystal Nuñez – MDRC, 2025
Recently, many states have adopted legislation that facilitates easier access to career and technical education (CTE) pathways and career exposure in high school. Technology-based advising tools offer assessments designed to help students measure their own aptitudes and explore career and educational pathways aligned with those aptitudes. To…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Career and Technical Education, Career Exploration
Sarah Salimi; Ivonne Garcia – MDRC, 2025
Summer youth employment programs (SYEPs) have the potential to serve as critical bridges to promising careers, especially for young people who hail from disadvantaged backgrounds or reside in underserved areas. Summer jobs can provide early exposure to professional environments, equipping participants with essential skills for the workplace,…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, Barriers, Disadvantaged
Dorimé-Williams, Marjorie; Plancarte, Vivianna – MDRC, 2022
In 2019, MDRC launched the Scaling Up College Completion Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) project to improve college completion rates for traditionally underserved students, such as students from low-income backgrounds and students of color, at community and broad-access colleges (those that have open or minimally selective admissions…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, College Students, Community College Students
Carolyn J. Hill; Rebecca Davis; Mallory Undestad – MDRC, 2024
A robust body of evidence over the past half a century has documented the importance of early childhood experiences for adult outcomes. From maternal prenatal care to early intervention in infancy and toddlerhood, and through high-quality care and educational experiences in the preschool years, support services and programs for families and young…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, School Readiness, Partnerships in Education, Barriers
Klein, Sabrina; Rosen, Rachel; Beal, Katie; Salimi, Sarah – MDRC, 2023
Interest in the field of career and technical education (CTE) has experienced a resurgence over the last decade, as the global economy has grown increasingly competitive while students have continued to leave school underprepared for well-paying twenty-first century jobs. Together and separately, the education and workforce sectors have sought to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Training, Program Effectiveness, Evidence
Kusayeva, Yana; Baird, Peter; Timm, Jonathan – MDRC, 2019
In the state of Vermont, the child support program is judicial, which means that the court holds the authority to establish and modify child support orders. When the program needs to establish legal parentage, establish a new child support order, or modify an existing order, it invites parents to attend a Case Manager Conference, held at the…
Descriptors: Children, Financial Support, Parents, Intervention
Jean Grossman; Betsy Tessler; Keith Olejniczak; Francesca Ciaramella – MDRC, 2024
Job Corps is the largest and most comprehensive education and job training program in the United States for young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school or working. Most students live at and take classes at its approximately 120 residential centers. To explore ways to improve student outcomes and reduce per-student costs, Job Corps pilot…
Descriptors: Job Training, Partnerships in Education, Pilot Projects, Program Effectiveness
