The Obama administration selected 44 colleges Monday for an experiment that lets high school students enrolled in college courses pay for them using Pell grants, a form of federal financial aid that covers tuition, books and fees for needy college students.
Dual-enrollment courses offer students a chance to save money, earn credits toward a degree and get a taste of the college experience. While 82 percent of public high schools partner with colleges to help more than 1.4 million students earn credits, low-income and minority students are underrepresented in these programs, according to the Education Commission of the States, a nonpartisan think tank.
Read more at The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/16/dozens-of-colleges-set-to-partake-in-dual-enrollment-experiment/