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Matt Smith

Complex Measures of Success: Voluntary Framework of Accountability - 1 views

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    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.
Mary Fulton

Serving Students, Serving California: Updating the California Community Colleges to Mee... - 0 views

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    Urges policymakers to focus the mission of community colleges in three core areas: basic skills education, career technical education and preparation for transfer to four-year universities. The Commission called for shifting adult basic education from the state education department to the community college system, and for giving more authority to the chancellor to oversee the campuses. (Little Hoover Commission, February 2012) Link to executive summary: http://www.lhc.ca.gov/studies/210/Executive%20Summary.pdf
Mary Fulton

Student Success Courses and Educational Outcomes at Virginia Community Colleges - 0 views

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    Finds that students who enrolled in a student success course in the first semester were more likely to earn college-level credits and were more likely to persist to the second year. Also finds that students referred to remedial education were more likely to earn college-level credits if they enrolled in a student success course in their first term. (Community College Research Center, February 2012)
Mary Fulton

Diagnostic Assessment: Challenges & Opportunities for the California Community - 0 views

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    Examines the experiences of Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia in developing statewide diagnostic assessments for course placement at their community colleges. Looks at the implications for California's community colleges, which have been charged with developing diagnostic exams. (EdSource and Learning Works, June 2012)
Mary Fulton

A Contextualized Intervention for Community College Developmental Reading and Writing S... - 0 views

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    The study provides evidence on the potential efficacy of a contextualized intervention approach to helping students develop an important academic skill, written summarization. (Center for Community College Research, January 2012)
Mary Fulton

Community College Reforms to Spur Workforce Development - 0 views

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    Masschusetts Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled a plan to unify the state's 15 community colleges and give the board of higher education more oversight of the campuses. The plan also intends to strengthen the role of community colleges in workforce development.
Mary Fulton

Success Begets Success - 0 views

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    Community colleges can improve graduation rates by offering a course that teaches students how to navigate college with lessons on study skills, time management and how to find the bursar's office. Yet while "student success" courses are increasingly common, resistance remains strong at many community colleges. (Inside Higher Ed, 02/21/12)
Matt Smith

Colleges Misassign Many to Remedial Classes, Studies Find - 0 views

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    News article references two new CCRC reports, which suggest that more than a quarter of students placed in remedial courses could pass the gateway course with a "B." The article also indicates that using high school GPA as the placement criterion would be as good of a predictor of college success as remedial assessments.
Bruce Vandal

Raymund Paredes: The TT Interview | The Texas Tribune - 0 views

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    Interview with Commissioner of Higher Education Ray Paredes. Ray is a member of the Getting Past Go advisory team
Lisa Levinson

Jobless dropouts head back to school for basic skills - 2 views

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    adults without basic reading or math skills return to school for basic skills in KY. Programs teach job skills and workplace vocabulary and encourages dual enrollment in ABE and community college.
Lisa Levinson

Views: Beyond 'Tough Choices' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Budget cuts to community colleges highlights the fact that as a society we were never fully committed to remedial students in the first place. Young people and adults who have been criminalized and imprisoned are ineligible for loans, and cannot afford college to turn their life around. These cuts target the working poor, undereducated, and disadvantaged and are a threat to our democracy.
Mary Fulton

Louisiana Granting Resources and Autonomy for Diplomas Act -- LA Grad Act 2010 - 1 views

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    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.
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Views: Last Year, I Flunked Myself - 0 views

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    By Wick Sloane, in a column called The Devil's Workshop in Inside Higher Ed, September 20 2010. Sloane, previously the CFO of a public university, has embedded himself as a writing teacher at Bunker Hill Community College. In this column, he ties completion to the many varied needs of under-served students, many of whom live in poverty.
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Almost two-thirds of students entering CCRI not ready for college work - 0 views

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    By Jennifer D. Jordan in the Providence Journal, Oct 20 2010. One state (Rhode Island) looks at the transition from high school to college and the steady need for developmental education among nearly 2/3 of its community college students, despite efforts made in K-12.
Matt Smith

Divided We Fail: Improving Completion and Closing Racial Gaps in California's Community... - 1 views

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    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).
Matt Smith

Push is on to find more effective models of remedial education - 1 views

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    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.
Bruce Vandal

A Report of the Commission on the Future of the Community College League of California - 0 views

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

Forum Announcement: Increasing Postsecondary Success, Lessons from Community College In... - 1 views

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    This forum held by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) will spotlight community colleges that address the challenges of developmental education and produce best practices for supporting students' progress toward degree completion. The forum will be held Monday December 13th. Speakers Peter Adams and Elaine Baker have worked with ECS and Getting Past Go in the past.
Matt Smith

Montgomery College to look at redesigning its remedial courses - 0 views

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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.
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College Placement Test (CPT) at Mt. Hood Community College - 1 views

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    Information about the College Placement Test (CPT) at Mt. Hood Community College
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