By Taryn Ozuna Allen
The dual-credit curricular initiative deals highschool scholars the chance to earn university and highschool credit at the same time with no taking a standardized try out to procure the credits. The classes are imagined to introduce scholars to a extra rigorous curriculum in highschool and retailer them money and time of their pursuit of faculty levels. twin credits courses have grown swiftly, and this monograph offers a synthesis of:
• the scholarly literature on twin credits provided at highschool and numerous postsecondary settings;
• underrepresented scholars’ studies with the course(s), and
• feedback for destiny study and drivers that may impact its development.
Originally, those projects desirous about high-achieving scholars, yet extra types have emerged that extend the advantages to reduce- and middle-achieving scholars as well.
This is the 3rd factor of the forty second quantity of the Jossey-Bass sequence ASHE better schooling Report. every one monograph is the definitive research of a difficult better schooling factor, according to thorough study of pertinent literature and institutional reports. subject matters are pointed out by means of a countrywide survey. famous practitioners and students are then commissioned to put in writing the stories, with specialists delivering serious studies of every manuscript earlier than publication.
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