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Thomas Brock
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Director
Young Adults and Postsecondary Education Policy Area
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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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MDRC Publications
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