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Honored But Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges
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The article was published on 1999-03-02 and is currently open access. It has received 445 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Teaching method & Professional development.read more
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Challenge and opportunity: rethinking the role and function of developmental education in community college
TL;DR: This article provided a national context about how students progress in community colleges across the country, including data about students who take developmental education courses, how they move through the developmental course sequence, the obstacles they face when completing their intended course of study, and programs and practices that appear to help students meet their goals.
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Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Community College Student Success
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of academic and policy research in search of explanations for low rates of success in community colleges is presented, emphasizing what is known about challenges stemming from three levels of influence: the macro-level opportunity structure; institutional practices; and the social, economic, and academic attributes students bring to college.
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The American Community College
TL;DR: The American Community College has been an introduction to and an important resource about an institution that has become an increasingly critical institution as mentioned in this paper, for over 30 years, providing an introduction and a resource about the American community college.
Paths to Persistence: An Analysis of Research on Program Effectiveness at Community Colleges
Thomas Bailey,Mariana Alfonso +1 more
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Remediation in the Community College: An Evaluator's Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for the evaluation of remedial education programs is provided, based on a list of ingredients for successful interventions, and a number of approaches to remediation that make use of these ingredients.