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Title Defending the community college equity agenda / edited by Thomas Bailey, Vanessa Smith Morest
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-297) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Community colleges -- United States -- Administration
Community colleges -- Curricula -- United States
Educational equalization -- United States
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Community colleges -- Administration
Community colleges -- Curricula
Educational equalization
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Bailey, Thomas W., 1950-
Morest, Vanessa Smith, 1969-
ISBN 9780801889592
0801889596