Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue of "Data Notes" looks at students who returned to their original Achieving the Dream institution after completing credentials or transferring to another institution. Forty-two percent of students who either received a degree or certificate or transferred from an Achieving…

Using the data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue of "Data Notes" is the second of a two-part series investigating the characteristics of late stop-outs--students who accumulate at least 30 credits within the first two years, only to stop out without completing credentials or transferring. The data show that male…

Nearly one-quarter of students in community colleges leave school during the first year of enrollment for reasons other than transfer or credential completion. Generally, nontraditional community college students drop out within their first year at higher rates than do traditional students. Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges…

An educational program was developed to train practitioners to provide care for patients and families that are responsive to cultural concerns. The aim was to increase knowledge and improve attitudes toward providing culturally proficient and culturally sensitive care for patients and families facing life-threatening illnesses. The program…

Recent data indicate that a large proportion of students entering community colleges are identifying terminal certificate or occupational associate degrees instead of academic majors or transfer as their short-term goal. Despite this, throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, states established articulation agreements as policy instruments to…

A qualitative, community study of 58 parentally bereaved children and their 35 surviving parents illustrates how families take advantage of forewarning of death to foster connections between children and dying parents and prepare for youngsters' continued attachment to dying parents after the death. Children and parents displayed strong yearnings…

This article discusses students with terminal illnesses and the challenges teachers face in dealing with the issue of death. Classroom strategies for dealing with death are described and include using children's literature that explores death, using deaths of pets as teachable moments, and using children's films. (Contains references.) (CR)

Questions whether community colleges are democratizing higher education or if they are extending the "tracking" which has characterized our comprehensive system of secondary education, by screening from four-year colleges disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities, students from lower socioeconomic classes, and students who are less able…

Secondary-level history instruction for the low ability student is considered, especially the interrelated issues of language, attitude, and course components. (SJL)

As the number of unemployed and underemployed college graduates increases, the secondary school system will encounter the following developments: (1) a clash over the early placement of twelfth graders in college; (2) a need to rethink the college-orientation of high school curricula; and (3) a need for more attention to non-college-bound youth.…

An annotated bibliography of selected documents in the ERIC collection dealing with general education for the two-year college occupational student. (DC)

Assessment of the progress of occupational students, while difficult, can be successfully achieved by means of cooperative efforts between theorists and researchers in student assessment and professional college staff members who work with students. (JDS)

Describes the organization and operation of a chemistry course for secondary students which emphasizes problem solving and student activities, particularly project work. (CP)

Describes steps in the development of science curriculum materials by Manchester heads of science. Twenty-nine units for use with low-motivated pupils were developed. (CP)

The Los Angeles Community College District has developed a two-semester interdisciplinary humanities curriculum which combines art, music, history, English, philosophy, theatre arts, and technology into a topical or modular structure. Students are offered a wide variety of classroom activities which draw on both verbal and nonverbal skills. (NHM)