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A framework for reform in higher education. Provides a vision for what higher education should be accountable for and suggests that the federal government play a strong role in that accountability

Details the work of the Voluntary Framework of Accountability, which has rolled out its Stage One pilot measures for college readiness and workforce, economic and community development measures.

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.

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)

Report from Education Sector on high school accountability systems

National CrossTalk -- Vol. 18 / No. 2 -- December, 2010 Commentary by SREB President, Dave Spence on need for more comprehensive college readiness standards and accountability. Suggests that states uniformly adopt ACT College Readiness Benchmarks or something similar.

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)

This brief makes a case for using cohort and momentum point data, disaggregated by gender, ethnicity, and institution, to improve program practices and community college system policies in California. Findings indicate that too few students reach transfer, retention, and completion milestones, and that a large percentage of students do not always follow enrollment patterns or degree checkpoints, as intended by policy. The brief outlines three recommendations: improving campus data collection practices, creating accountability structures through new funding models and assessment policies, and using data to align institutional and system-level efforts (Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy at California State University Sacramento, October 2010).

Describes Getting Past Go's policy framework for how states can more effectively integrate reforms to remedial education policy into efforts to increase college attainment rates. The framework centers on four key policy levers: assessment and placement; data and reporting; delivery of instruction; accountability and continuous improvement; and funding. The report also summarizes the goals and activities of the GPG project. (Bruce Vandal, Education Commission of the States, May 2010)

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

Policy framework for the Getting Past Go initiative of the Education Commission of the States.

Examines reasons for and ways to invest in higher education on sustainable basis. Makes recommendations in four areas: Affordability, Access, Quality and Accountability. Addresses several issues, including remedial education and completion.
(Colorado's Strategic Plan for Higher Education, November 2010)

Explores two key questions: What information do states collect on their higher education institutions? How do they use that information to affect institutional improvement? (Chad Aldeman and Kevin Carey, Education Sector, June 2009)

Summarizes the findings and recommendations of the Developmental Education Task Force that was charged with identifying steps the Virginia Community College System could take to increase the success of students that require remedial education. (Virginia Community College System, September 2009)

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

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

Article on Virginia Community College System's developmental education redesign

Gretchen Schmidt and Donna Jovanovich from the VA Community College System presented at the GPG Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7.

Provides an overview of the remedial education landscape, Getting Past Go project activities and workshop objectives and principles. The PowerPoint also discusses the four policy levers and related questions that are central to the GPG policy framework. (Bruce Vandal, Education Commission of the States, October 2010)

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

Accountability report on performance measures, referred to as core indicators of success, within NC community college system. (PDF document)

Southern Regional Education Board Meeting outlining key principles for developing stronger secondary academic standards for both college and career readiness

Examines three states -- Florida, Oregon, and Ohio - that have built powerful new data systems that track student progress after high school into the work force and college. (Chad Aldeman, Education Sector, January 2010)

This announcement references the University of Phoenix's plan to provide just in time developmental education as part of their online programs.

Details Texas Senate Higher Education Interim Committee's study report. Committee offered 86 recommendations on variety of topics: dual credit, distance education, cost-cutting, performance funding, remedial education.

Briefing paper released by NGA and prepared by ECS for the Complete to Compete initiative on remedial education.