Benefits to Concurrent Enrollment
Concurrent enrollment partnerships are a model for efficient high school reform. By providing measurable benefits to students, teachers, and schools quality concurrent enrollment partnerships are a unique and efficient way to address numerous reforms being called for across the country.
Concurrent enrollment partnerships...
- Provide rigorous postsecondary academic challenges to high school students in their own supportive high school environments.
- Provide college access to a broad range of students by placing actual college courses within high schools.
- Afford students and families savings in the overall cost of a higher education.
- Focus student learning on critical thinking and writing skills.
- Evaluate students with multiple and varied assessments, rather than on one high-stakes test.
- Provide high school instructors with ongoing, relevant professional development led by college and university faculty.
- Create spillover effects that "raise the bar" throughout partner schools -- even in non CEP courses.
- Foster strong local networks among secondary and postsecondary educators that result in a seamless transition for students as they move from high school to college.
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According to the National Center for Education Statistics all 50 states now report offering concurrent enrollment programs. Over 680,000 high school students attending 72% of America's public high schools took concurrent enrollment courses in 2002-03. |
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