"This idea was based on the parallel between the pluck and elan that are characteristic of both the early-college students I worked with and that of America's hardest-working founding father. Five years after I wrote the book, I had the opportunity to revisit the field for a revised edition, making it appropriate to ask, after Thomas Jefferson's song in the second act of Hamilton, "What'd I Miss": How has early college/dual enrollment changed over the past half decade?"
"When I started my book on dual enrollment in 2020, people in the field believed we were working with more than a million students in total, but there was no clear number from the federal government. The new dual-enrollment count on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System is more than 2.8 million students, a clear jump forward in a short period of time."
Dual enrollment refers to students earning simultaneous high school and college credit for the same class, while early college denotes structured programs with dedicated supports, often on college campuses. Participation in dual enrollment and early-college programs has increased substantially in the past five years, with IPEDS reporting more than 2.8 million students. States such as Idaho, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, and New York have built or expanded large programs quickly. Program models have proliferated, including concurrent enrollment where vetted high-school faculty teach for college credit alongside campus-based early-college offerings. The field now shows both greater scale and more varied delivery models.
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