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In this edition, we feature the Workforce Competitiveness Collection, which covers Workforce Education, English Language Acquisition, and Technology. Each month, Collections News features one of the three LINCS Resource Collections - Basic Skills, Program Management, and Workforce Competitiveness - and introduces research-based resources that you can use in your adult basic education and family literacy programs and classrooms.

Examines the assessment and course placement practices across California's community colleges for incoming students and recommends strategies for overall improvement. (WestEd, September 2010)

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

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

Presents recommendations to refocus the goal of developmental mathematics to prepare students to do college work and to enhance student support services surrounding the delivery of developmental mathematics. (Virginia Community College System, May 2010)

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

Thomas Nenon, the Vice Provost for Assessment, Institutional Research and Reporting, served as a resource expert for GPG's second online Jam, "The Heart of the Matter: Assessment, Placement and Delivery in Developmental Education," in April 2010.

This guidebook is a result of partnerships between numerous companies, literacy agencies, and trade associations involved with manufacturing and exports in Canada. The guidebook is divided into two sections. Literacy & Essential Skills in Business provides information and facts about Canada's efforts to improve literacy and essential skills in the workplace. The second section is a workbook providing tools for workplace assessments, checklists and usable templates to initiate a workplace literacy program. There is also a very useful appendix with additional resources.

The National Repository of Online Courses now has a set of resources dedicated on developmental math.

New blog for Parents, teachers of, and students with LD/ADD online resource for postsecondary transition news

Provides an overview and history of the Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign initiative. The PowerPoint presentation also addresses questions raised and answered by the initiative, including: why Tennessee needed to rethink developmental studies, how the state positioned itself for change, how Tennessee has changed developmental studies, and what strategies worked for the Tennessee's higher education system. (Dr. Paula Myrick Short and Dr. Treva Berryman, Tennessee Board of Regents, October 2010)

This resources was shared by Uri Treisman at the Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7

Presentation of the developmental mathematics course redesign project work and results at Chattanooga State Community College. The project has served as a pilot site for the Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign initiative. (John Squires, Chattanooga State Community College, October 2010)

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

This preliminary guide discusses the goals and opportunities of the online Getting Past Go toolkit. The toolkit on GPG's web site provides an interactive work space for the project's state network. (Knowledge in the Public Interest, October 2010)

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

Presentation of the developmental mathematics course redesign project work and results at Jackson State Community College. The project has served as a pilot site for the Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign initiative. (Betty Frost, Jackson State Community College, October 2010)

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

Presentation of the developmental reading course redesign project work and results at Northeast State Community College. The project has served as a pilot site for the Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign initiative. (Dr. Xiaoping Wang, Northeast State Community College, October 2010)

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

The Education Commission of the States and the Tennessee Board of Regents held a meeting to examine the work undertaken by the Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign initiative. Individuals from the pilot sites and task force members presented their project work and results at the October 7, 2010 workshop held in Nashville, TN.

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

As part of the Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign initiative, the Math Curriculum Redesign Task Force was charged with developing an appropriate mathematic curriculum that would prepared students for success into entry level college mathematics courses. This presentation reviews the task force objectives and primary recommendations. (Math Curriculum Redesign Task Force, October 2010)

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

Presentation of the developmental mathematics course redesign project work and results at Austin Peay State University. The project has served as a pilot site for the Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign initiative. (Tristan Denley, Austin Peay State University, October 2010)

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

Paper on the early results and plans for the Statway initiative supported by the Carnegie Foundation on the Advancement of Teaching. The paper was prepared for the National Center for Postsecondary Research Conference on Developmental Education

This resources was shared by Uri Treisman at the Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7

Research on community college student engagement in mathematics. It examines how instruction is delivered and student response to various delivery models.

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

Provides an analysis of over 50 state and postsecondary system reports on remedial education that the Getting Past Go project reviewed. Overall, GPG found that data contained in the reports fell into three main categories: participation of students in developmental education; success of developmental education students; and cost of developmental education. (Mary Fulton, Education Commission of the States, April, 2010)

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

This literature review identifies reoccurring themes found throughout the history of developmental education in American higher education; examines the ways developmental education programs have been conceived and understood as a policy issue; and looks to how individuals, systems and states have responded to the remedial education policy debate. The literature review was conducted as part of the Getting Past Go project. (Tara L. Parker, Leticia Tomas Bustillos, and Laurie B. Behringer, PrePARE, August 2010)

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