Academic pathways to and from the community college
By: Debra D. Brag, Elisabeth A. Barnett, editors.
Contributors: Bragg, Debra D. editor.; Barnett, Elisabeth A., editor
Series: New directions for community colleges -- no. 135
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Community colleges -- United States; Education, Higher -- United States
Description: Pursuing the dream of attending college is important to virtually all of America's youth, heightening higher education's responsibility to ensure access and support student success. This volume of New Directions for Community Colleges examines local programs and state and federal policies designed to enhance opportunities for underserved students to enter and succeed in college. This volume focused on academic pathways - boundary-spanning curricula, instructional strategies, and organizational structures that link high schools with two- and four-year colleges. Academic pathways support student transition by straddling secondary and postsecondary education and providing alternative routes to educational attainment. Authors discuss dual credit, dual enrollment, and early and middle college high schools, as well as career and technical education pathways, community college baccalaureate degrees, and other emerging academic pathway models.  - Back cover.
Notes: "Fall 2006."

Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's notes -- Debra D. Bragg, -- Elisabeth A. Barnett -- 1.; title: Creating access and success : academic pathways reaching underserved students -- Debra D. Bragg, -- Eunyoung Kim, -- Elisabeth A. Barnett -- 2.; title: Historically underserved students : what we know, what we still need to know -- Denise Green -- 3.; title: Local pathways and statewide policies aligning standards and curricula -- Andrea Conklin Bueschel, -- Andrea Venezia -- 4.; title: Florida's dual enrollment initiative : how state policy influences community colleges' service to underrepresented youth -- Erika Hunt, -- Charles E. Carroll -- 5.; title: Middle and early college high schools : providing multilevel support and accelerated learning -- Terry Born -- 6.; title: Achieving the baccalaureate through the community college -- Deborah L. Floyd -- 7. The; title: role of career and technical education in facilitating student transitions to postsecondary education -- Donna E. Dare -- 8.; title: How students benefit from high-tech, high-wage career pathways -- Meg Draeger -- 9.; title: Arizona's teacher education initiative : aligning high school and college curricula -- Cheri St. Arnauld -- 10.; title: Academic pathways and increased opportunities for undeserved students: Crosscutting themes and lessons learned -- Elisabeth A. Barnett, -- Debra D. Bragg; title: Index.