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Basic Skills for Complex Lives details five principles for creating powerful classrooms and offers a new vision for professional development. Included are recommendations drawn from the work of the 11 community college campuses that participated in SPECC-a three year, multi-site, action research project of the Carnegie Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2008)

Research on community college student engagement in mathematics. It examines how instruction is delivered and student response to various delivery models.

Resource shared by Uri Treisman at the Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7, 2010

Overview of the Statway initiative from the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching

Information shared by Uri Treisman at the Getting Past Go Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7, 2010

Opinion piece from Anthony Bryk and Uri Treisman about the ways that mathematics requirements at universities impede, not facilitate student success. It outlines the key principles of the Carnegie initiative to build math pathways for students

Shared by Uri Treisman at the Getting Past Go Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7.

Paper on the early results and plans for the Statway initiative supported by the Carnegie Foundation on the Advancement of Teaching. The paper was prepared for the National Center for Postsecondary Research Conference on Developmental Education

This resources was shared by Uri Treisman at the Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7

Video presentation from Uri Treisman on the Dana Center and Carnegie Foundation on their efforts to create multiple pathways from high school to postsecondary education in math

Research by Hiebert and Grouws on the effects of specific instructional delivery models on student learning.

Information shared by Uri Treisman at the Getting Past Go Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7.

This article details the main research and data findings on developmental education. The article touches on innovative approaches at three community colleges. Also, a discussion of program cost and student success situates developmental education in the right policy context.

The Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC) project focused on teaching and learning in basic skills mathematics and English at 11 California community colleges. This report discusses the ways the participating colleges have used both traditional measures of student performance, as well as more innovative forms of assessment and data collection to improve pedagogical practice and enhance student learning. (Lloyd Bond, A Report from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges, 2009)