Defending the community college equity agenda
By: edited by Thomas Bailey, Vanessa Smith Morest.
Contributors: Bailey, Thomas W., 1950-; Morest, Vanessa Smith, 1969-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780801884474
Subjects: Community colleges -- United States -- Administration; Community colleges -- Curricula -- United States; Educational equalization -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : defending the community college equity agenda / Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest; title: Double vision : how the attempt to balance multiple missions is shaping the future of community colleges / Vanessa Smith Morest; title: Performance accountability as imperfect panacea : the community college experience / Kevin J. Dougherty and Esther Hong; title: Increasing competition and growth of the for-profits / Thomas Bailey; title: Virtual access / Rebecca D. Cox; title: The limits of "training for now" : lessons from information technology certification / Jim Jacobs and W. Norton Grubb; title: "Lights just click on every day" / Dolores Perin and Kerry Charron; title: "Like, what do I do now?" : the dilemmas of guidance counseling / W. Norton Grubb; title: Twice the credit, half the time? : the growth of dual credit at community colleges and high schools / Vanessa Smith Morest and Melinda Mechur Karp; title: The community college equity agenda in the twenty-first century : moving from access to achievement / Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest.