The first year of Accelerating Opportunity: implementation findings from the states and colleges
Beginning in 2012, the Accelerating Opportunity (AO) initiative provided $1.6 million in grants to five US states [Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Louisiana]. The grants were 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 their educational and employment outcomes. A rigorous and comprehensive evaluation of AO includes a non-experimental impact study, an implementation study, and a cost-benefit analysis. This first report provides key findings on the pathways, st ... Show more
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Published: [Washington, District of Columbia], Urban Institute, 2014
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: ix, 46 p.
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