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Overcoming Obstacles,Optimizing Opportunities: State Policies to Increase Postsecondary Attainment for Low-Skilled Adults
Publication Date: March 2008
Publisher(s): Center for Law and Social Policy
Author(s): Amy-Ellen Duke; Julie Strawn
Special Collection: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Topic: Education (Adult, technical, and vocational education)
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This paper, by Amy-Ellen Duke and Julie Strawn, provides an overview of state policies that can be most successful in helping lower-skilled adults enter and succeed in college and careers. The paper introduces a series of state policy reports developed as part of Breaking Through, a national project that is helping community colleges identify and develop institutional strategies that can enable low-skilled adult students to enter into and succeed in occupational and technical degree programs at community colleges.