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Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2008
In the future, businesses will demand workers with higher-level skills and more education. Community colleges are key providers of career and technical training as well as traditional academic education. These colleges can also play important roles in the one-stop system created by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), through which a variety of…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness, Labor Force Development
Zaritsky, Joyce – 1994
Supplemental instruction (SI) is a non-remedial academic support or peer tutoring program based on the concept that students are more likely to persist in college if they establish a feeling of belonging to their educational institution. The SI model differs from traditional tutoring in the following ways: (1) instead of assisting poor or failing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Philosophy, Grades (Scholastic)