in Maryland, agrees. As a member of
implementation team three, Dukes and
her fellow team members will explore
the issue of college readiness and the
importance of K– 12 and community
college partnerships, an area of need
that President Obama and other
national and local leaders have
highlighted as critical to the nation’s
economic success.
Together with the Prince George’s
County Public Schools—one of the
nation’s 20 largest public school dis-
tricts—PGCC in 2011 launched the first
middle college high school in Maryland,
which features a mix of high school,
college, and dual-enrollment credits.
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Jan Lyddon
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Michael Viera
Desna Wallen
Fran White
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150
number of
Community
Colleges that are
Currently using
aaCC’s “reClaiming
the ameriCan
dream: Community
Colleges and the
nation’s future”
report for
strategiC planning
purposes.
Source: American Association of Community Colleges
pursue college, to graduate in the class
of 2015 with an associate degree.
It took four years to launch the
program. As part of the planning
process, Dukes traveled the country
to meet with educators whose colleges
had sponsored similar initiatives. If the
experience taught her anything, she
says, it’s that community colleges don’t
have to attempt these reforms on an
island. Collaboration and open dialogue
between secondary and postsecondary
institutions oftentimes reveal replica-ble and scalable practices that can help
colleges save time and money.
Dukes says her team will also examine the role of community colleges in
emerging K– 12 metrics, such as
Common Core State Standards, and how
colleges and high schools can work
together to better align curricula to the
needs of prospective employers.
As community colleges work to
achieve their goal of adding an additional 5 million college completers to
the workforce by 2020 (see our report
on the progress colleges are making
toward this goal on page 40), Dukes
says conserving resources and working
