April 22, 2005

Researchers Mine 2-Year-College Data

By DAVID GLENN

Researchers have recently gained a much fuller understanding of the dynamics of community-college students' lives, three scholars said last week at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, in Montreal.

The scholars presented studies that are based on newly mined data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey, a federally financed project that tracked more than 12,000 participants from 1988, when they were in eighth grade, until 2000, when most of them

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