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The U.S. Education Department on Monday announced that it had chosen 44 colleges for an experiment in which they will be able to give Pell Grants to high school students participating in dual enrollment programs. The announcement carries out the department's plan (another in a string of efforts to use its "experimental sites" authority) to allow as many as 10,000 high school students to use federal postsecondary student aid funds to take college-level courses, which is generally prohibited by federal law.
The institutions chosen to participate, about 80 percent of which are community colleges, have agreed to use promising practices for ensuring the students' success, such as creating clear curricular pathways, building linkages to careers and ensuring strong advising.
