The Link Between Dual Enrollment Partnership Characteristics and Outcomes: Findings From Texas

This working paper describes dual enrollment (DE) high school–college partnerships and estimates which DE structures and contexts predict aggregate DE course completion, college enrollment, and degree attainment.

The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students: A National and State-by-State Analysis

Using NSC data, this report presents national and state-by-state findings on the postsecondary enrollment and completion outcomes of high school students who began taking dual enrollment college courses in fall 2015, tracked for four years after high school.

What Do Dual Enrollment Students Want? Elevating the Voices of Historically Underserved Students to Guide Reforms

Based on focus group interviews with predominantly Black, Hispanic, and low-income students, this brief examines the experiences of students historically underserved in dual enrollment to understand what these students want from their programs and the educators who lead them.

Dual Enrollment Equity Pathways: A Research-Based Framework for Expanding College and Career Opportunity for Underserved Students

This article introduces “dual enrollment equity pathways” (DEEP)—a research-based framework for rethinking à la carte dual enrollment as a more equitable on-ramp to college programs of study that lead to high-opportunity career paths for students historically underserved in dual enrollment.

Understanding Dual Enrollment

This fact sheet describes the growth of dual enrollment, the various models and funding mechanisms, and steps colleges and high schools can take to make dual enrollment more equitable.

“Waiving” Goodbye to Placement Testing: Broadening the Benefits of Dual Enrollment Through Statewide Policy

Using interview data from program leaders and statewide student data, this paper examines the implementation and estimates the effects of Ohio’s Innovative Programs, a policy aimed at expanding access to dual enrollment for underserved high school students.

Greater Equity in College Access Through High School/College Dual Enrollment Programs

Greater Equity in College Access Through High School/College Dual Enrollment Programs By John Fink This brief, published by the Campaign for College Opportunity, summarizes the research on dual enrollment programs-programs which allow high school students to enroll in college coursework through a partnering college or university-and offers policymakers a strategy to increase college enrollment via […]