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Advanced Placement or Dual Credit? Which is the favored path for high school students?

This ARTICLE provides a primer on the differences and the plus/minus elements of both choices.  the article is short, but it includes links to additional content and information. Read More

Indiana’s Commission for Higher Education is extending its partnership with INvestEd and the Center of Escellence in Leadership of Learning to support teacher credentialing

This is a quick update on graduate courses offered for free through Teach Dual Credit Indiana.  This goes a long way toward building a pipeline of dual credit credentialed teachers in Indiana….well done.  This short news item can be found HERE Read More

College in High School Alliance brings to the forefront the ‘Next Phase of Dual Enrollment Policy’

The subtitle of this paper is “a Vision for the field”, which suggest a shift in our current focus on building and scaling dual enrollment to forward aspirations for greater access and equity objectives and thereby realize a more comprehensive level of participation in the benefits realized in previous programing phases.  The new orientation is the inclusion of a much expanded dual enrollment student population, not tied to exceptional academic performers alone, but to all students’ career and occupational goals […] Read More

California is focused on expanding the reach of dual enrollment across the spectrum of student pathways

This article Making the Most of State Investments in Dual Enrollment – Public Policy Institute of California (ppic.org) highlights the trends in dual enrollment programs to incorporate career pathway planning into the programs.  This encourages another trend in dual enrollment that is clearly targeting marginalized students’ participation.  The idea here is to expose students to higher education well ahead of graduation from High School and to demonstrate to them that they have the wherewithal to undertake post secondary education and career aspirations […] Read More

Update on Georgia’s Legislative Review of Dual Enrollment results in strong financial and policy support for future dual enrollment programing

This is a follow on to earlier posted articles on the State of Georgia’s Legislative review of dual enrollment programing in the state.  The committee assigned to the review traveled the state looking at several examples of DE programing and concluded with several recommendations regarding funding, definitions for outcomes and longer term commitments to support programing.  See article from The Current, In-Depth Journalism for Coastal Georgia Read More

Community College Research Center published a strong case for intentional infusion of pathway logic to Dual Enrollment Programing

This research points out the well established positive student success outcomes of dual enrollment participation, but with a strong emphasis on access and equity gaps in some student populations.  In addition to pointing out the data that supports those points, it goes a step further in suggesting even stronger outcomes where the programs incorporate career path objectives.  This furthers the trend in DE that is moving away from DE targeting strong academic achievers to DE that targets students who have […] Read More

Here’s another article praising the success of structuring dual credit course taking into a more planned pathway that concludes with a job or with a credential

This Forbes article does a nice job of showing the power of dual credit coursework that is tied to a logical and purposeful sequence of courses or to a clear pathway to an occupation or to a credential.  I liked the phrase used to accentuate planned pathways, which the article pointed out are much more effective than ‘random dual credit’ taking in terms of student success metrics.  this is a good quick read. Read More

Georgia Legislators move forward on efforts to assure continued strength in Dual Credit Programing

This Article in the Walker County Messenger is another segment on the Georgian legislature’s work toward shoring up dual credit programing in the state with funding stability and commitments to hire more high school counselors and dual credit instructors.  The focus has been on programing’s in content areas that lead to occupational pathways that support the economy’s demand for specific labor/trades/skills and specialties. Read More

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released this year’s ‘High School Benchmarks’ report

This report provides some striking data on the lasting impacts of Covid on student enrollments, persistence and disparities in post secondary enrollments.  There is some promising indicators that a rebound is underway, but the Covid class of 2020 seems to be left behind.   I didn’t look at the data itself, but for those looking for some validation of what many have noted or experienced, this report and the data may be very useful. Read on HERE Read More

Georgia’s legislature looks to build off a strong performance in dual enrollment programs in the state

Take a look at this article from THE CURRENT that describes a pretty strong appreciation for dual enrollment in Georgia’s school systems.  It looks to firm up funding, policy glitches and recruitment with a series of legislative actions. There’s some good data points in the article plus some common sense logic to assist students and school districts to accelerate success while refining expectations and limitations of programing.   Read this brief article HERE Read More