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    Doubling Graduation Rates in a New State

    Two-Year Findings from the ASAP Ohio Demonstration

    The highly successful Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP), developed by the City University of New York, has been shown to nearly double graduation rates after three years. This brief presents results after two years from a replication of ASAP at three community colleges in Ohio.

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    Helping Young People Move Up

    Findings from Three New Studies of Youth Employment Programs

    Over four million young people in the United States are “disconnected,” meaning they are not in school and are not working. In the past few months, studies of three programs aimed at such young people have released new findings. This brief discusses these findings and their implications.

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    Steps Toward Sustainability

    A Case Study of Lorain County Community College’s Comprehensive Student Success Program

    In 2014, Lorain County Community College launched Students Accelerating in Learning (SAIL), a comprehensive student success program that is substantially improving persistence and graduation rates among low-income students. This brief describes the steps Lorain took to fund and institutionalize SAIL that are now making it easier to sustain the program.

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  1. Ohio Programs Based on CUNY’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) More Than Double Graduation Rates
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  4. MDRC Seeking Paid Interns for Summer of 2019
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MDRC is committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult problems facing the nation — from reducing poverty and bolstering economic self-sufficiency to improving public education and college graduation rates. We design promising new interventions, evaluate existing programs using the highest research standards, and provide technical assistance to build better programs and deliver effective interventions at scale.

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