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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 students attending community colleges and less selective four-year universities. 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 Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration, a study of the effect of financial incentives tied to enrollment and academic performance criteria. Other projects include the National Learning Communities Demonstration, a study of how linking developmental education classes with standard college courses or “student success” courses affect student outcomes, and an evaluation of a Texas summer “bridge” program that provides remedial instruction and support to graduating high school students before they begin college.

 
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