Christopher Avery

This project will assess the efficacy of an intervention that provides high quality college-going information as well as informational counseling to low-income students when they are applying to, enrolling in, and entering college. Because low-income students often come from families with limited college experience, and may not receive adequate information about college from their high schools, the college application process can pose a substantial barrier to enrolling in college. The interv...

The purpose of this Network project is to explore and evaluate the effects and impacts of online and hybrid course modalities on psychosocial and academic outcomes for Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) students and to develop supports for modalities that improve academic outcomes. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic from Fall 2019 to Fall 2020 enrollment in the nine colleges in LACCD fell by 30%, jeopardizing the progress of reform efforts that had helped to produce an increas...

The National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) will establish a continuous improvement network to build the capacity of rural school districts and supporting state agencies to use their own data to improve the education of their students. The specific network model (known as Proving Ground) has been used in urban and suburban districts but not rural districts.