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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)

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

Washington's Student Achievement Initiative measures student progress for the incremental gains made that lead to college success. These measures, called momentum points, are in four categories: improving preparation for college-level courses, building towards a year of college credit, completing college math, and completing certificates, degrees and apprenticeships. This paper describes the success of basic skills students in transitioning to college-level classes, and the momentum they gain towards college success. (Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, January 2008)

This newsletter, produced for the Achieving the Dream initiative, provides a brief analysis of data collected by the initiative. It includes several issues dedicated to developmental studies. (JBL Associates, Quarterly, November/December, 2008)

Summarizes state progress on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers, with respect to standards, graduation requirements, P-20 data systems, assessments and accountability. (Achieve, March 2010)

Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Outcomes is an Achieving the Dream Community Colleges Count and Jobs for the Future Policy Brief written by Michael Lawrence Collins, program director at Jobs for the Future. June 2009

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

Report from JFF on Virginia's state strategy to improve community colleges through Achieving The Dream.

Annual survey summarizes whether states and the District of Columbia have adopted standards, graduation requirements, assessments and accountability systems aligned to the expectations of two- and four-year colleges and employers. (Achieve Inc., January 2011)

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)

Under the LA Grad Act, four-year institutions agree to achieve certain standards in exchange for authority to increase tuition. The performance objectives are aimed at improving college completion and meeting the state's workforce and economic development needs. One performance objective - efficiency and accountability - requires four-year institutions that enter into agreements to eliminate remedial education course offerings and developmental study programs unless such courses or programs cannot be offered at a community college in the same geographic area.

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.

Report that sets ambitious goals to increase the college completion rates and decrease achievement gaps at California Community Colleges

The home page for the federally funded project to develop assessments for the common core standards.

Achieving the Dream is a multiyear national initiative to help more community college students succeed.

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)

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.

Resource shared at the GPG Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7, 2010.

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,

Action Analytics, which they define as "a multi-dimensional effort aimed squarely at fundamental and strategic education reform in the context of massive economic, social, and technological change... [A]ction analytics strategically uses data, statistics, predictive modeling and visualization to promote student success, achieve institutional efficiency, and demonstrate transparency."

Interview with Sinclair Community College president on their participation in Achieving the Dream and the efforts in developmental education.