The second year of Accelerating Opportunity: implementation findings from the states and colleges
Accelerating Opportunity (AO) provides grants to help community colleges create career pathway programs to enroll students with low basic skills into for-credit career and technical education courses to improve educational and employment outcomes. The second annual implementation report for the AO initiative in four states (Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, and North Carolina) finds that: colleges aligned pathways and supports with local needs; students were satisfied with AO; AO instructors grew more adept at team teaching; colleges struggled to recruit adult education students; states and colleges ... Show more
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Published: Washington, District of Columbia, Urban Institute, 2015
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: [91] p. (report) + [9] p. (executive summary)
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http://www.urban.org/research/publication/second-year-accelerating-opportunity-implementation-findings-states-and-colleges
