Socioeconomically disadvantaged high school students are more likely to fail their dual-enrollment, college-level courses regardless of their level of prior academic achievement, with such failures leading to substantial reductions in college enrollment, a new study suggests.
However, students who attempt dual-enrollment courses and fail are still more likely to enroll in college than comparable students who never enroll in such dual courses at all, says a study by researchers at the nonpartisan research organization WestEd, which is among the first to examine failure rates in dual enrollment.
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