Dual Enrollment is growing by leaps and bounds. According to this report from Marketplace over 1 million students are taking college courses in high school. It’s a good thing that the press is starting to look at Dual Enrollment. Compared to an issue like distance learning that gets lots of attention, dual enrollment has been largely ignored. I would argue that it is at least as transformative as distance education, but it gets much less attention.
For a more critical take on the subject, here is an article by Bad Assessment contributor Erik Gilbert.