Opinion by Thomas Bailey and Thomas Brock: Biden’s free community college plan is dead. But there are other ways for Congress to help students.
. This partly reflects the challenges that many community college students face — from inadequate preparation in primary and secondary school to the combined pressures of college, working and raising children — but it also is a result of entrenched practices that work against student success.
The good news is that community college leaders and researchers working together have learned a lot about how to make community colleges more effective. In the past 20 years, they have developed and tested policies and practices to keep students in school and put them on a more effective path toward degrees.
Guided Pathways, developed by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, offers a framework that colleges can use to make sure every student has an academic and career plan and receives adequate advising and support from application through graduation or transfer. More thanhave adopted the Guided Pathways model to undertake comprehensive reforms, and 16 states are implementing the framework throughout their community college systems.
led trial at seven community colleges showed that including high school transcripts as part of placement strategies costs an average of $110 per student in the first year; once established, the cost is lower. The cost of implementing Guided Pathways reforms for an average community college is roughly
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