GettingPastGo

Chronicle article on Obama speech on his higher education agenda. His speech refers to Cleveland State's redesign of developmental math, which is part of the Tennessee Board of Regents developmental studies redesign.

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

Article in San Antonio Express-News on efforts to increase the success of remedial education programs to save money and improve student success.

Joyce Foundation approach to systems change for state policy for ensuring that state postecondary, adult basic education, skills, and credentials needed to advance and succeed in our changing economy. Their approach: uses data to foster improvements;pursues policy changes to leverage improvements; engages the field to generate ideas for buy-in; and builds strategic communications to cultivate skakeholder support for systemic change.

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.

Report on the cost of remedial education at New Jersey Community Colleges.

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.

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

Report from the Mitchell Institute in Maine on how to improve transitions from high school to college for Maine students. Covers college preparation, awareness, career counseling, financial aid.

The report is referenced in a report on remedial education developed by the University of Maine system in 2007.

Article in Houston Chronicle, funded through Hechinger Institute, on the challenge of remedial education in Texas. Emphasizes need for reform in delivery of remedial Education.

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.

Paper by Bastedo and Gumport suggesting that efforts at mission differentiation often have distinct impacts on access issues. Examines the movement to eliminate remedial education as one example.

Interview with author of new book on the history of remedial education at California Berkeley. Looks at how Cal's remediation efforts balanced the age old question of access and excellence in higher education.

Article on CUNY's new community college that is cohort based and offers intense services to students, while limiting degree options. Goal is to significantly increase graduation rates.

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).

Summarizes how community college pilot sites have addressed goals of the Illinois law, including reducing remediation through early assessment and intervention.

Documents the partnerships between high schools and community colleges and provides evidence of the early assessment and intervention programs to reduce college remediation. The pilot programs are part of the Illinois College and Career Act.

SREB report articulating strategies for how states can significantly increase college graduation rates. Features the Cal State Long Beach strategy for serving students with developmental education needs

Describes Getting Past Go's policy framework for how states can more effectively integrate reforms to remedial education policy into efforts to increase college attainment rates. The framework centers on four key policy levers: assessment and placement; data and reporting; delivery of instruction; accountability and continuous improvement; and funding. The report also summarizes the goals and activities of the GPG project. (Bruce Vandal, Education Commission of the States, May 2010)

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

Policy framework for the Getting Past Go initiative of the Education Commission of the States.

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