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NCWE/JFF Project Rationale
The project addresses two important, interrelated challenges to a larger
role for community colleges serving low-income adults:
- Designing and implementing better pathways from basic education
into community college.
- Designing and implementing effective strategies for improving the
ability of developmental education students to go on to earn occupational
certificates or technical degrees.
There are many possible post secondary "pathways" for low-income
adults. The increasingly fluid nature of college-going programs gives
rise to an impressive combination of routes into and through community
college technical programs. Also, pathway may suggest a far more structured
progression than is the case much of the time. Nevertheless, two types
of transition are critical to degree attainment and wage advancement,
yet they receive less attention from the research community: from ABE
programs to community college; and from developmental education programs
(primarily college-based) to occupational and technical degree programs.
Accordingly, our goal is to strengthen outcomes for low-income adults
in the community college pipeline by focusing on programs and strategies
that create more effective pathways at these two transitions.
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