High-school students taking college courses for credit helped to fuel an increase in community-college enrollment this spring — and brought attention to the outsize role dual-enrollment students have played in the health of the higher-ed sector that’s been most beleaguered by the pandemic.
The number of dual-enrollment students jumped nearly 13 percent from a year earlier, according to preliminary data in the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s most recent spring enrollment report. The subsequent increase in attendance at community colleges was 2.1 percent from a year earlier, the center said.
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