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Summarizes research about the participation of students with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and makes recommendations about which interventions might best increase their ability to contribute to the field.

Offers examples of promising partnerships between community colleges and employers and provides recommendations about how such partnerships can be cultivated.

This report examines the structural divide between for-credit and noncredit postsecondary education and the problems it presents for people seeking better jobs with higher pay.

High school graduation requirements is consistently one of the top-searched issues on our website. State policymakers and education leaders come to us wondering: How many total courses do states require for high school graduation? What do states...

Strengthening Transfer Paths to a Bachelor’s Degree: Identifying Effective Two-Year to Four-Year College Partnerships offers a framework for identifying effective partnerships between two- and four-year institutions that enable community college...

JFF's Making Opportunities Work for Youth: Expanding Proven Pathways to College and Careers  shares stories of success for students with multiple barriers and how their programs worked to help  to meet their challenges. 

The Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN) seeks to alleviate poverty and inequity through education and employment. PYN's work is grounded in the understanding that young people need access to both education and employment, proven factors in being...

This new report report from Community College Research Center tracks the progress of the 30 colleges in implementing guided pathways reforms over the first year of the project, gives detailed examples of how the colleges are approaching this work,...

A new Community College Research Center (CCRC) report released today analyzes student enrollment and degree records from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) for more than 200,000 high school students who took a community college class...

Many of today’s college students are older and balancing college with considerable family and work demands. In many cases, that means they can only pursue their studies part-time. In fact, 37 percent of undergraduates seeking a college degree or...