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Defending the community college equity agenda [electronic resource] / edited by Thomas Bailey, Vanessa Smith Morest.

Contributor(s): Bailey, Thomas W, 1950- | Morest, Vanessa Smith, 1969- | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Description: xiii, 305 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Community colleges -- United States -- Administration | Community colleges -- Curricula -- United States | Educational equalization -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 378.1/01 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction : defending the community college equity agenda / Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest -- Double vision : how the attempt to balance multiple missions is shaping the future of community colleges / Vanessa Smith Morest -- Performance accountability as imperfect panacea : the community college experience / Kevin J. Dougherty and Esther Hong -- Increasing competition and growth of the for-profits / Thomas Bailey -- Virtual access / Rebecca D. Cox -- The limits of "training for now" : lessons from information technology certification / Jim Jacobs and W. Norton Grubb -- "Lights just click on every day" / Dolores Perin and Kerry Charron -- "Like, what do I do now?" : the dilemmas of guidance counseling / W. Norton Grubb -- Twice the credit, half the time? : the growth of dual credit at community colleges and high schools / Vanessa Smith Morest and Melinda Mechur Karp -- The community college equity agenda in the twenty-first century : moving from access to achievement / Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and index.

Introduction : defending the community college equity agenda / Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest -- Double vision : how the attempt to balance multiple missions is shaping the future of community colleges / Vanessa Smith Morest -- Performance accountability as imperfect panacea : the community college experience / Kevin J. Dougherty and Esther Hong -- Increasing competition and growth of the for-profits / Thomas Bailey -- Virtual access / Rebecca D. Cox -- The limits of "training for now" : lessons from information technology certification / Jim Jacobs and W. Norton Grubb -- "Lights just click on every day" / Dolores Perin and Kerry Charron -- "Like, what do I do now?" : the dilemmas of guidance counseling / W. Norton Grubb -- Twice the credit, half the time? : the growth of dual credit at community colleges and high schools / Vanessa Smith Morest and Melinda Mechur Karp -- The community college equity agenda in the twenty-first century : moving from access to achievement / Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.