Summarizes findings from Opening Doors Demonstration programs to raise college completion rates through financial incentives, instructional reforms, including learning communities, and enhancements in targeted student services such as academic counseling.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California;North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio
Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Profiles career academies that combine core academic subjects with technical courses to prepare students for both college and careers. Examines their locations, industry sectors, and funding sources as well as student profile, performance, and experience.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Profiles career academies that combine core academic subjects with technical courses to prepare students for both college and careers. Examines their locations, industry sectors, and funding sources as well as student profile, performance, and experience.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Profiles career academies that combine core academic subjects with technical courses to prepare students for both college and careers. Examines their locations, industry sectors, and funding sources as well as student profile, performance, and experience.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
Children and Youth;Education and Literacy
A three-year study tracking outcomes for thousands of students across California shows that careerfocused dual enrollment programs can provide important benefits for those who are underachieving and underrepresented in higher education. Programs of this type, which allow high school students to take college courses and earn college credit, were once offered almost exclusively to high-achieving students seeking greater academic challenge.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California (Southern)
Education and Literacy;Immigration
Probing the changing makeup of American college campuses, this report by the Public Education Institute at The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc. of Malden, MA, offers unparalleled insight into the journeys of today's graduate students born to immigrant entrepreneur parents.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Southern) / District of Columbia / Washington;North America / United States (Western) / California;North America / United States (Northeastern) / Massachusetts;North America / United States (Northeastern) / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia County / Philadelphia
Education and Literacy, Race and Ethnicity
Presents data on the disparities in graduation rates among African-American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, and white students as well as between boys and girls within each group.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Analyzes California's scores in the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education's report card of higher education as well as affordability, participation, completion, and other issues by region and race/ethnicity. Makes policy recommendations.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
