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Report from Center for Education Policy that surveyed state and district leaders on implementation of common core standards. Findings show that states are a long way from implementation

Powerpoint on the implementation of the Fasttrac program in Minnesota that integrates basic skills instruction in contextualized career training

Story on a new report by the Center for Education Policy that indicates that many states are a long way from implementing common core and that many have not explored aligning the standards with higher education

Study on the implementation of directed self placement of writing students.

This annual report summarizes and disaggregates data on New Mexico high school graduates who require college remedial courses. The percentage decreased by 3.1% from 2008 to 2009. NM has implemented several initiatives to better prepare students for college.

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,

Policy Information Perspective from ETS. Report discusses issues involved in the debate over whether the United States should have national education standards, and implications for implementation.

Pearson education web page to assist states on the implementation of the common core.

Story in the Register-Herald stating that West Virginia will begin a five year process to implement the Common Core standards in West Virginia schools.

Report examines the first 26 colleges to join Achieving the Dream. The colleges developed more sophisticated methods for data analysis and efficient systems for monitoring their efforts to improve student achievement. Conversely, about one-fifth of the colleges still struggled to implement many of the initiative's recommended practices, hindered primarily by weak institutional research capacity. (MDRC and Community College Research Center, February 2011)

Paper outlining the outcomes from the first year of implementation for the DEI initiative.

Press Release announcing the implementation of the PERT. The exam will be used for assessment and placement at Florida community colleges and will be made available to high school students for early assessment and intervention purposes.

The paper shows how three community colleges used the Achieving the Dream model of institutional reform to implement best instructional approaches for developmental education courses. The paper also examines how other community colleges may use evidence of success at these institutions as an indication of the utility and scalability of the Achieving the Dream model.

Case study of three institutions that used the Achieving the Dream process to develop and institute changes in developmental education

Paper from CCRC identifying the elements of highly effective community colleges.

Brief from ACE on how higher education can engage with the common core standards.

From CLASP: Beyond Basic Skills describes strategies that can be used to strengthen connections between basic skills education and postsecondary education to help lower-skilled adults and out-of-school youth attain the postsecondary credentials they need to advance in the labor market. This includes state-level innovations such as: instructional strategies that provide a strong foundation in occupational skills required for jobs in the local economy; acceleration strategies that help students progress further and more quickly in education and training programs in a shorter period of time than traditional approaches, and funding formulas, assessment policies, and other administrative policies that support a statewide vision to provide adults and youth with pathways to better jobs through postsecondary education. The report also includes examples of states and local institutions that are effectively implementing one or more of these innovations.

Report from CLASP for policymakers on how to link basic skills instruction to postsecondary attainment

Discusses the early findings of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas. (MDRC, October, 2011)