Georgia report evaluating the impact of developmental education on different student groups

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

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.

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.

The United States Department of Education has recently launched ED Data Express to make some of the Department's data available to the public. There are a variety of "views" of the data (e.g. state "snapshots," state tables), as well as the opportunity to build your own view.

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

Published by the Association for Career and Technical Education(ACTE), this 2-page document asserts that career readiness combines academic, "employability," and technical skills, and is not the same as more traditional "college readiness." The document itself is undated, but is footnoted (though most of the sources are also undated).

Like GSCC, NCAT was also the recipient of a Gates Foundation emerging technologies grant. NCAT will redesign developmental math courses in community colleges integrating technology and learner-centered pedagogy.

Socrata, using "social networking, cloud computing, data visualization and analytics, mobile and location-based services, internet-scale databases and Web publishing" enables users to effectively share their data, thus facilitating "social data discovery."

Hawaii Community College Achieving the Dream 2009 Data - Profile, Notes, Reports, Charts

ECS / Getting Past Go: Telling the Story of Developmental Education: Using Data to Develop a State Strategy. February 2010

Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Outcomes is an Achieving the Dream Community Colleges Count and Jobs for the Future Policy Brief written by Michael Lawrence Collins, program director at Jobs for the Future. June 2009

It's Not About the Cut Score: Redesigning Placement Assessment Policy to Improve Student Success is an Achieving the Dream Community Colleges Count and Jobs for the Future Policy Brief written by Michael Lawrence Collins, program director for Jobs for the Future's Youth Transitions Cluster, July 2008.

The Ohio Board of Regents is a nine-member advisory board to the chancellor. Responsibilities of the board include developing an annual report on the Condition of Higher Education in Ohio, and issuing an annual performance review of the chancellor.

The Developmental Education Initiative is a three-year Gates funded effort to identify and develop programs that increase the number of community college students who complete preparatory classes and successfully move on to college-level studies. The Initiative began in 2009.

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.

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

ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks are the minimum ACT test scores required for students to have a high probability of success in credit-bearing college courses-English Composition, social sciences courses, College Algebra, or Biology.

The State Regents prescribe academic standards of higher education, determine functions and courses of study at state colleges and universities, grant degrees, and approve each public college's and university's allocations.