Dual Enrollment: Strategies, Outcomes, and Lessons for School-College Partnerships

New Directions for Higher Education, Number 158

Edited by: Eric Hoffman, Daniel Voloch

What are the goals, practices, policies, and outcomes of programs that enroll high school students in college courses for college credit?

This volume examines:

• Dual enrollment programs and how they operate
• Their impact — based on quantitative and qualitative studies — on student achievement and institutional practices
• How they support a student's transition to — and success in — college
• The role of higher education in improving K–12 education

Chapters explore successful models that both build off dual enrollment's philosophy of school-college partnerships and embrace a more robust framework for supporting college transition.

Andrea Venezia, Senior Research Associate for the Regional Educational Laboratory West at WestEd, cowrote a key chapter.