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  Thomas Brock
  Director
Young Adults and Postsecondary Education Policy Area
 
  Brock leads MDRC’s work in higher education, which is principally focused on finding ways to increase academic achievement and persistence among low-income community college students. Current projects include Opening Doors, an evaluation of curricular reforms, enhanced student services, and scholarship programs at six community colleges across the United States; Achieving the Dream, a national initiative sponsored by Lumina Foundation for Education to help community colleges make better use of data to improve instruction and services; and the National Learning Communities Demonstration, a study of how linking developmental education classes with standard college courses or “student success” courses affect student outcomes. Other projects include SSPIRE, an Irvine Foundation-funded initiative to help a group of community colleges in California become more effective in integrating academic instruction and student services, and the Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration, which is examining how financial incentives may be used to encourage student persistence and academic achievement.

 
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