Giving Compass' Take:

• In this podcast, Leslie Hsu Freeman, manager of dual enrollment for Oakland Unified, discusses the effectiveness of the program in helping increase high school graduation rates and college enrollment. 

• How can this program be replicated in other districts successfully? 

• Read more about the opportunities of dual enrollment programs. 

Programs that allow high school students to simultaneously take community college courses, called dual enrollment, are effective in raising high school graduation rates and college enrollment, especially among students who might not otherwise have been college bound. But students in only one in eight high schools in California participate in these programs, according to the Wheelhouse Center at the UC Davis School of Education.

This week, we speak with Leslie Hsu Freeman, manager of dual enrollment for Oakland Unified, about the value of this increasingly popular strategy. About 1,000 high school students in Oakland now take college courses each semester which are taught by college professors on the district’s 15 high school campuses.

Read the full article about dual enrollment programs at EdSource.