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By Diana D. Woolis and Gail O. Mellow. This page is the abstract for the book chapter on the Emerald website.

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan (2008) This page is the announcement of the book from LaGuardia Community College and the text/video of Dr. Mellow's lecture for the Robert H. Atwell lecture.

A comprehensive evaluation of Achieving the Dream, a nationwide program designed to boost the academic success of community college students, reveals that overall trends in student outcomes at the first 26 institutions to join the project remained relatively unchanged after five years, even though the colleges adopted a wide range of strategies to improve them.

Transcript from video Discounted Dreams

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto. She includes this quote by Kay McClenney: "If we can't find ways to more effectively educate beyond the high school level, larger numbers of our population, including especially those that have traditionally been underserved, we as a country are going to sink like a rock. This is not the right time in our history to be saying, oh, we were only kidding about educational opportunity to low-income people, students of color, first generation college students. They're the future. They are the growing majority of the American population and we can't choose to close that door."

Carrie Glaser; Shae Issaacs; Jon Merrow; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); Learning Matters, etc. New York, NY; Learning Matters, Inc; Alexandria, VA: Distributed by PBS Home Video (2007). Documentary explores the paradoxes of the nation's 1200 community colleges.

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto.