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Mary Fulton

College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Stu... - 0 views

www.educationsector.org/...College-Ready.pdf

data Florida Ohio Oregon P-20 college_ready high_school career_ready

shared by Mary Fulton on 25 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 25 Feb 10
     
    Examines three states -- Florida, Oregon, and Ohio - that have built powerful new data systems that track student progress after high school into the work force and college. (Chad Aldeman, Education Sector, January 2010)
Bruce Vandal

Students playing catch-up as they hit college | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning... - 0 views

www.dallasnews.com/...2110dnmetremedial.417d43c.html

assessment Texas high_school innovation college_ready

shared by Bruce Vandal on 23 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Bruce Vandal on 23 Mar 10
     
    Story in Dallas News on the high percentage of Texas high school students who enter college underprepared. Outlines some of the strategies that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is supporting to improve student success.
Bruce Vandal

Promoting a Culture of Student Success - 0 views

publications.sreb.org/...10E02_Promoting_Culture.pdf

completion graduation innovation California academic support tutoring

shared by Bruce Vandal on 14 Apr 10 - No Cached
  • Bruce Vandal on 14 Apr 10
     
    SREB report articulating strategies for how states can significantly increase college graduation rates. Features the Cal State Long Beach strategy for serving students with developmental education needs
Mary Fulton

Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation - 1 views

www.publicagenda.org/...faculty_in_student_success.pdf

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shared by Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11
     
    Discusses core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing community colleges and closing student achievement gaps. (Public Agenda and Achieving the Dream, March 2011)
Mary Fulton

Opening Doors to Student Success: A Synthesis of Findings from an Evaluation at Six Com... - 2 views

www.mdrc.org/...policybrief.pdf

MDRC community_college incentives learning_communities support_services financial_aid student_success remediation persistence

shared by Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11
     
    Partnering with six community colleges, MDRC developed and evaluated four distinct programs based on the following approaches: financial incentives, reforms in instructional practices, and enhancements in student services. (MDRC, March 2011)
Lisa Levinson

California Community Colleges Success Network |  California Acceleration Pro... - 0 views

3csn.org/developmental-sequences

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  • Lisa Levinson on 04 Aug 11
     
    Large research studies inside and outside California have established that the more levels of developmental courses a student must take, the less likely the student is to ever complete college courses in English and Math. The California Acceleration Project stresses that we can't keep attributing this problem to students' low skills or low motivation.
Mary Fulton

Promoting Gatekeeper Course Success Among Community College Students Needing Remediatio... - 2 views

ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp

Virginia Transforming Remediation co-requisite CCRC gatekeeper_courses completion retention persistence

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  • Mary Fulton on 05 Apr 11
     
    Summarizes findings from VCCS' effort to improve the rates at which students complete developmental coursework and advance to take and pass college courses, particularly the initial college-level, or "gatekeeper," math and English offerings. (Community College Research Center, November 2009)
Mary Fulton

Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Coll... - 1 views

www.jff.org/...AtD_brief_success_060809.pdf

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shared by Mary Fulton on 17 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 17 Feb 10
     
    This issue brief describes how the 15 states participating in the Achieving the Dream project have concentrated their policy efforts on four key areas: preventative strategies, assessment and placement, implementation and evaluation of program innovation,
Matt Smith

Forum Announcement: Increasing Postsecondary Success, Lessons from Community College In... - 1 views

www.aypf.org/...fb121310.htm

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  • Matt Smith on 12 Nov 10
     
    This forum held by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) will spotlight community colleges that address the challenges of developmental education and produce best practices for supporting students' progress toward degree completion. The forum will be held Monday December 13th. Speakers Peter Adams and Elaine Baker have worked with ECS and Getting Past Go in the past.
KPI_Library Bookmarks

Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia: Office of Research and Policy Ana... - 1 views

www.usg.edu/...ls-feedback

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shared by KPI_Library Bookmarks on 16 Feb 10 - Cached
  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 16 Feb 10
     
    The Office of Research and Policy Analysis (RPA) is the research arm of the Board of Regents, analyzing higher education and related state and national policy issues and their impact on the University System of Georgia. Reports in this section analyze success of students in developmental education courses as a means for evaluating their "Learning Support" Programs
Mary Fulton

A Good Start: Two-year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough... - 0 views

www.mdrc.org/...full.pdf

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shared by Mary Fulton on 19 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 19 Feb 10
     
    Examines the impact of learning communities on student success at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. The study found that learning community students are more likely to pass English-assessment tests and transfer to a four-year institution. (Susan Scrivener, Dan Bloom, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse and Colleen Sommo; MDRC, 2008)
Mary Fulton

Fueling the Race to Postsecondary Success - 0 views

www.cael.org/...PLA_Fueling-the-Race.pdf

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shared by Mary Fulton on 01 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 01 Mar 10
     
    Finds that adult students who had been awarded academic credit for "prior learning" earned in the military, corporate training and other non-classroom settings were more than twice as likely to graduate, and to persist even if they did not graduate, than were their peers who had not earned such credit. (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, March 2009)
Bruce Vandal

A Tribal College Gets Down to Basics - Student Affairs - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

chronicle.com/...64147

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  • Bruce Vandal on 16 Feb 10
     
    Article on how a tribal four-year institution focused on developmental education through a Academic Success department
KPI_Library Bookmarks

Achieving the Dream Policy Brief: It's Not About the Cut Score - 3 views

www.jff.org/...cutscoreforWeb_0.pdf

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shared by KPI_Library Bookmarks on 18 Feb 10 - No Cached
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  • Mary Fulton on 18 Feb 10
     
    The author describes the experiences of three states that reviewed their placement assessment policies. The report encourages states to consider college placement policies as part of a broader vision of college readiness. (Michael Lawrence Collins, Jobs for the Future, 2008)
  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 10 Mar 10
     
    It's Not About the Cut Score: Redesigning Placement Assessment Policy to Improve Student Success is an Achieving the Dream Community Colleges Count and Jobs for the Future Policy Brief written by Michael Lawrence Collins, program director for Jobs for the Future's Youth Transitions Cluster, July 2008.
  • Mary Fulton on 11 Oct 10
     
    Resource shared at the GPG Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7, 2010.
Mary Fulton

Enhancing College Student Success Through Developmental Education - 2 views

www.aascu.org/...pmaug08.pdf

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shared by Mary Fulton on 18 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 19 Feb 10
     
    Provides an overview of current policy and research on developmental education. The paper argues that developmental education is a necessary part of state efforts to increase college attainment rates. (Alene Russell, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2008)
  • Bruce Vandal on 23 Feb 10
     
    Hey Mary, I think this paper argues against shifting developmental education exclusively to two-year colleges. Maybe we should create tags using the term "limits", "four_year" and "comm_college"
Mary Fulton

Educational Outcomes of I-BEST: Washington State Community and Technical College System... - 9 views

www.acteonline.org/...I-BEST%20Analysis.pdf

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  • Mary Fulton on 17 Feb 10
     
    Under the I-BEST model, basic skills instructors and college-level career-technical faculty jointly design and teach college-level occupational courses for adult basic skills students in both these areas. This paper presents findings from a study on the o
  • Bruce Vandal on 23 Feb 10
     
    Wonderful research on the success of the I-BEST model. I-BEST is maybe the best example on how to effectively use data to assess the need for reform and the impact of the reform. It is a model that other states should consider strongly.
Bruce Vandal

Altered State: How Virginia Community College System Has Used Achieving the Dream to Im... - 1 views

www.jff.org/...ATD_Altered_State_0.pdf

Virginia data remediation transfer

shared by Bruce Vandal on 20 Apr 10 - No Cached
  • Bruce Vandal on 20 Apr 10
     
    Report from JFF on Virginia's state strategy to improve community colleges through Achieving The Dream.
Mary Fulton

Innovation at Scale: How Virginia Community Colleges Are Collaborating to Improve Devel... - 1 views

www.jff.org/...1318

redesign modular Virginia delivery innovation math English

shared by Mary Fulton on 25 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 25 Oct 11
     
    Describes Virginia's process of redesigning developmental education across the state's 23 community colleges and 40 campuses. By 2013, developmental math will be taught as a series of nine one-credit modules. Developmental English will be taught as a tiered subject, integrating academic reading and writing. (Jobs for the Future, October 2011)
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