Altered State: How Virginia Community College System Has Used Achieving the Dream to Im... - 1 views
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Bruce Vandal on 20 Apr 10Report from JFF on Virginia's state strategy to improve community colleges through Achieving The Dream.
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Good Data. Strong Commitment. Better Policy. Improved Outcomes - 4 views
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JFF State Policy Framework from Achieving the Dream. Outlines focus on data, assessment/placement, persistence/completion, incentives, transition/transfer
Developmental Education Initiative State Policy Framework and Strategy - 4 views
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Framework for remedial education that includes references to funding, use of data, assessment and delivery.
North Carolina math redesign - 3 views
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Story in the Achieving the Dream initiative newsletter on the North Carolina math redesign
Innovations in Developmental Math: Community Colleges Enhance Support for Nontraditiona... - 2 views
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Paper from Jobs for the Future looking at three models for redesigning developmental math.
Where to Begin? The Evolving Role of Placement Exams for Students Starting College - 0 views
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The report is intended to help state and college leaders understand the latest research on assessments used for course placement , make sense of the contentious debate issues, and evaluate their own options for moving forward. (Jobs for the Future, August 2012)
Scaling and Sustaining: State Progress in the Developmental Education Initiative - 0 views
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This analysis of data from the DEI Self-Assessment Tool covers policy changes between 2009 and 2010, the first year of the initiative. Includes summaries from Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and Texas. (Jobs for the Future, October 2011)
Achieving the Dream Policy Brief: It's Not About the Cut Score - 3 views
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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)
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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.
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Resource shared at the GPG Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7, 2010.
Standardization vs. Flexibility: State Policy Options on Placement Testing for Developm... - 0 views
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Examines the tradeoffs states encounter as they make state-level developmental education placement policies. The brief encourages policies to be combined with appropriate support services and interventions that enable students to succeed. It promotes a P-16 approach with multiple assessments of students and sound data collection and analysis. (Heath Prince, Jobs for the Future, 2005)
Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Coll... - 1 views
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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,
Accelerating Remedial Math Education: How Institutional Innovation and State Policy Int... - 1 views
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This policy brief looks at efforts in three community colleges, two of which are Achieving the Dream institutions, to revamp remedial math programming. It focuses on the ways in which state and system policies interact with institutional reform efforts -
Achieving the Dream Policy Brief: Setting Up Success in Developmental Education - 0 views
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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
Accelerating Remedial Math Education: How Institutional Innovations and State Policy In... - 4 views
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Details the tension between institutions developing innovative approaches to assess students and deliver remedial content and state policies that reinforce the traditional course-based design.
Driving Innovation: How Six States Are Organizing to Improve Outcomes in Developmental ... - 1 views
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Describes what the DEI states have set out to do and why, the momentum they have developed, and next steps in their efforts to overcome obstacles to better results. (Michael Collins, Jobs for the Future, April 2011)
Innovation at Scale: How Virginia Community Colleges Are Collaborating to Improve Devel... - 1 views
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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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