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Mar 20, 2025

Assessing the Needs of Military-Connected Children and Resources to Address Those Needs

This report presents findings from a mental and behavioral health needs assessment of military-connected children in the context of military child development centers, military youth programs, and schools with a significant military child population.
Research

Jan 21, 2025

CTE-Focused Dual Enrollment: Participation and Outcomes

This study examines participation in North Carolina's CTE Dual Enrollment pathway. It shows that CTE dual enrollment participation was associated with earning more college credits earned in high school, high school graduation and college enrollment.
Research

Apr 5, 2023

Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Community College Students

This report is a descriptive study of eight community colleges at the forefront of implementing multilevel approaches to support student mental health and key facilitators for and barriers to their success.
Research Summary

Apr 5, 2023

How Community Colleges Can Support Student Mental Health Needs

This report is a descriptive study of eight community colleges at the forefront of implementing multilevel approaches to support student mental health, as well as key facilitators for and barriers to their success.
Video

Apr 14, 2022

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The Pandemic's Effect on College and Career Readiness Supports

RAND policy researcher Christine Mulhern describes findings from her recent study that examined how college and career readiness supports changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research

Jan 12, 2022

Changes in College and Career Readiness Supports During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Comparing nationally representative response data from the 2020 and 2021 Learn Together Surveys, the authors examine how high school teachers and principals provided supports to students for postsecondary transitions before and during the pandemic.
Sep 7, 2021

RAND Review: September-October 2021

The cover story highlights strategies to mitigate homegrown terrorism and ideologically inspired violence in the U.S. A second feature describes Costa Rica's ambitious decarbonization plan and its implications for nations around the world.
Commentary

Jul 13, 2021

Next Year's Freshman: How Corequisites Might Help Address COVID-19 Learning Loss

As states and colleges look to address learning loss due to COVID-19, it is important that they not turn to traditional models of remediation that prevent students from directly entering college coursework. Instead, they should look to new, effective models of corequisite support.
Research

Apr 6, 2021

Heterogeneity in the Effects of College Course Placement

To better understand which types of students might be most likely to benefit from being placed into college-level math coursework, this study examines heterogeneity in the causal effects of placement into college-level courses using administrative data from Texas.
Research Summary

Mar 24, 2021

How Does Corequisite Remediation Change Student Experiences? Results from a Randomized Study in Five Texas Community Colleges

Corequisite remediation for non–college-ready students provides early opportunities to earn credit, more-intensive instruction, greater rigor, greater alignment, and increased opportunities to learn from peers.
Research

Mar 24, 2021

Student Experiences in English Corequisite Remediation Versus a Standalone Developmental Education Course: Findings from an Experimental Study in Texas Community Colleges

In this report, researchers use data from a randomized control trial at five community colleges in Texas to examine contrasts in student experiences between corequisite remediation and standalone developmental education courses.
Research

Oct 9, 2020

When Financial Aid Is Scarce: The Challenge of Allocating College Aid Where It Is Needed Most

This study estimates the effects of the Wisconsin Grant, a state-funded, need-based financial aid program for Wisconsin residents attending in-state colleges and universities.

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Assessing the Needs of Military-Connected Children and Resources to Address Those Needs

CTE-Focused Dual Enrollment: Participation and Outcomes

Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Community College Students

How Community Colleges Can Support Student Mental Health Needs

The Pandemic's Effect on College and Career Readiness Supports

Changes in College and Career Readiness Supports During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

RAND Review: September-October 2021

Next Year's Freshman: How Corequisites Might Help Address COVID-19 Learning Loss

Heterogeneity in the Effects of College Course Placement

How Does Corequisite Remediation Change Student Experiences? Results from a Randomized Study in Five Texas Community Colleges

Student Experiences in English Corequisite Remediation Versus a Standalone Developmental Education Course: Findings from an Experimental Study in Texas Community Colleges

When Financial Aid Is Scarce: The Challenge of Allocating College Aid Where It Is Needed Most

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College-Bound Students

College-Bound Students

Ready, Set, College

Bridging the Growing College Divide Among Young Americans

Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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Assessing the Needs of Military-Connected Children and Resources to Address Those Needs

CTE-Focused Dual Enrollment: Participation and Outcomes

Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Community College Students

How Community Colleges Can Support Student Mental Health Needs

The Pandemic's Effect on College and Career Readiness Supports

Changes in College and Career Readiness Supports During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

RAND Review: September-October 2021

Next Year's Freshman: How Corequisites Might Help Address COVID-19 Learning Loss

Heterogeneity in the Effects of College Course Placement

How Does Corequisite Remediation Change Student Experiences? Results from a Randomized Study in Five Texas Community Colleges

Student Experiences in English Corequisite Remediation Versus a Standalone Developmental Education Course: Findings from an Experimental Study in Texas Community Colleges

When Financial Aid Is Scarce: The Challenge of Allocating College Aid Where It Is Needed Most

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