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datanotes publication from Achieving the Dream examining the success of students from ATD institutions in developmental education. Finds that very few students start or complete their developmental education sequence.

Completion status and outcomes

Describes a set of core principles for effective faculty engagement in the institutional change process. Each principle includes recommendations and practices. (Achieving the Dream and Public Agenda, Fall 2011)

The paper shows how three community colleges used the Achieving the Dream model of institutional reform to implement best instructional approaches for developmental education courses. The paper also examines how other community colleges may use evidence of success at these institutions as an indication of the utility and scalability of the Achieving the Dream model.

Case study of three institutions that used the Achieving the Dream process to develop and institute changes in developmental education

Hawaii Community College Achieving the Dream 2009 Data - Profile, Notes, Reports, Charts

Article discusses a comprehensive evaluation of Achieving the Dream, which reveals that overall trends in student outcomes at the first 26 institutions to join the project remained relatively unchanged after five years, even though the colleges adopted a wide range of strategies to improve them. (Inside Higher Ed, 02/10/11)

Report examines the first 26 colleges to join Achieving the Dream. The colleges developed more sophisticated methods for data analysis and efficient systems for monitoring their efforts to improve student achievement. Conversely, about one-fifth of the colleges still struggled to implement many of the initiative's recommended practices, hindered primarily by weak institutional research capacity. (MDRC and Community College Research Center, February 2011)

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)

Article describes Achieving the Dream's efforts to respond to the project's evaluation by MDRC. Efforts include better faculty engagement and professional development, and sustaining and scaling up reforms. (Inside Higher Ed, 04/06/11)