Rendón, L. I. (2002). Community college Puente: A validating model of education. Educational Policy, 16(4), 642-667.

Employing Rendón’s theory of validation, the validating elements in Community College Puente are identified. Implications for promoting access, use of involvement and validation theory, and employment of learning theory for nontraditional student populations are presented.

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