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Examines educational experiences and attainment as well as employment and earnings of adult students. The study also identifies the critical points where adult students drop out or fail to advance to the next level in order to stimulate thinking about how to bridge those gaps and facilitate student advancement. (Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, April 2005)

The task force's final report identifies ways to strengthen the governance of Ohio's adult learning system; ensure that its structures, programs and funding are aligned with employers' workforce needs and learners' expectations; and improve the performance and productivity of Ohio's talent development system with instructional programs that capitalize on best practices, state-of-the-art technology and high-quality teaching. (Final Report of the Ohio Advisory Committee on the Transfer of Adult Career-Technical Programs, June 2008)

This literature review was conducted for the California Basic Skills Initiative. It reviews research on the most effective practices for teaching basic skills to college students. (Center for Student Success, 2007)

Examines learning assistance centers and specialized skills labs in 15 community colleges and found that these approaches increase students' academic preparedness for postsecondary study. It is recommended that future research compare the effectiveness of learning assistance services and developmental education courses in boosting students' basic academic skills. ( Dolores Perin, Columbia University, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 28: 559-582, 2004)

The Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC) project focused on teaching and learning in basic skills mathematics and English at 11 California community colleges. This report discusses the ways the participating colleges have used both traditional measures of student performance, as well as more innovative forms of assessment and data collection to improve pedagogical practice and enhance student learning. (Lloyd Bond, A Report from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges, 2009)

The Common Core State Standards Initiaitive is a state-led efford coordinated by the National Governors Association for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers

The Web site for the Common Core State Standards

Executive Summary from MDRC on their latest research on the scaling up of strategies at community colleges to instruct students, particularly basic skills students, in learning communities. Findings have more to do with coordination of the scale up, than actual results. Findings consistent with earlier research that the learning communities did not result in effective curriculum integration or alignment.

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.

Article in Community College Journal on impact of unions on community college academic governance

Powerpoint from a webinar hosted by the Community College Research Center as part of the National Center for Postsecondary Research

This resource contains the article "Exponential Attrition and the Promise of Acceleration in Developmental English and Math," which makes the case that high attrition rates are structurally guaranteed in long developmental sequences and that open-access accelerated courses are a promising way to increase completion rates in college-level English and Math.