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The newspaper article from the Business Gazette (MD) details the efforts of Maryland communities colleges and Montgomery College, in particular, to redesign remediation by integrating basic math and English skills into vocational and specialized major courses. By including remedial curricula within major content areas, faculties hope to increase retention and completion rates for students who require college prep.

Study done by CCRC on the Accelerated Learning Program at Community College of Baltimore County that is led by Peter Adams. The findings show increased student success and a reasonable investment of resources given the level of student success

Story on American Youth Policy Forum event on developmental education featuring the Accelerated Learning Program at Community College of Baltimore County and the FastTracks program at Community College of Denver

The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University is partnering with the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) to analyze the effects of the college's Accelerated Learning Program (ALP). Under ALP, students placed into upper-level developmental writing are "mainstreamed" into English 101 classes. Preliminary results are very promising. Funding for this study is being provided by Lumina Foundation for Education, as part of the Achieving the Dream initiative.

ALP is in innovative approach to basic writing programs that accelerates basic writing students through their developmental writing course and English 101 in one semester. ALP builds on the strengths of earlier approaches such as mainstreaming, studios, learning communities and bridge programs.

The Web site for the Accelerated Learning Program at the Community College of Baltimore County. The program is an extremely effective strategy for moving students placed into developmental English into college level English courses and providing additional academic support

Provides information on the Accelerated Learning Project at the Community College of Baltimore County: background, results, costs and scaling up and replicating the model. (Fall 2010)