CA Community Colleges Featured in Peter Schrag Commentary in the Sacramento Bee 11-29-06

Locked in the attic over the shiny door to California’s huge community college system, there’s a crazy uncle called "completion." That’s the percentage of beginning students who actually get a degree, transfer to a four-year college, or complete the vocational program they began. More...

Report on the California Community College Students by the Public Policy Institute of California November 2006

The California community college system describes itself as the  largest postsecondary education system in the world (CCCCO, 2006a), with more than 2.5 million mostly part-time students enrolled in more than 100 colleges around the state. These institutions offer a broad variety of courses for their students, including academic coursework for an associate’s degree or transfer to four-year colleges and universities, vocational training, basic skills, English as a second language (ESL), and enrichment  courses... Link to the Report

Measuring Up 2006- The National Report Card on Higher Education by the National Center For Public Policy and Higher Education, November 2006

How well do the 50 states and the nation educate and train their citizens? Six years ago, we began to answer this question in Measuring Up 2000. Since then, the biennial Measuring Up series has become a widely accepted gauge of state and national higher education performance. Measuring Up 2006, the fourth report card, builds on earlier editions and adds an international perspective...Link to the Report

Setting a Public Agenda for Higher Education in the States by the National Collaborative for Higher Education Policy, December 2006

In March 2003, the Education Commission of the States, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education established a collaborative project to help states improve higher education performance by assisting with examination of state higher education policies and with establishing broad agreement around statewide priorities for improvement... Link to the Report

From Cradle to Career- Connecting American Education From Birth through Adulthood by Editorial Projects in Education, January 2007

For the past decade, Education Week’s annual Quality Counts report has tracked state policies for improving K-12 education. But children’s chances for success don’t just rest on what happens from kindergarten through high school. They are also shaped by experiences during the preschool years and opportunities for continued education and training beyond high school... Link to Report

What Community College Policies and Practices are Effective in Promoting Student Success? by Community College Research Center, May 2006

This study identifies community college management practices that promote student success. It was conducted by the Community College Resource Center (CCRC) through a partnership with the Florida Department of Education’s Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education, and funded by Lumina Foundation for Education as part of the Achieving the Dream: Community College Count initiative. Achieving the Dream is a national effort to increase the success of community college students, particularly those from groups that have been underserved in higher education. The initiative works on multiple fronts—including technical assistance to individual community colleges, research, public engagement, and public policy—and emphasizes the use of data to drive change... Link to Report