GettingPastGo

Story in Ed Week about two new reports one from ETS and the other from Aspen Institute on the common_core assessment consortia.

Document outlining state policy priorities for states participating in the developmental education initiative. Addresses, K-12 curricular alignment, funding, assessment and placement, data and performance measurement, academic support services

Report from ACT assessing the alignment between the common core and ACT college readiness standards.

Focus on Complete College Tennessee Act. Addresses outcome funding model and the directives to community colleges to offer cohort based model and not deliver developmental education.

Paper presented at 2008 at NCSCBHEP conference

Discusses core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing community colleges and closing student achievement gaps. (Public Agenda and Achieving the Dream, March 2011)

Report from JFF on Virginia's state strategy to improve community colleges through Achieving The Dream.

NEA Grant Committee on Distance Education developed the following policy and bargaining benchmarks having to do with distance education

Story documenting the Gates Foundation's commitment to improve remedial education in community colleges.

Overview of the two common core assessment consortia by ETS

The Early Assessment Program is a collaborative effort between the California State University (CSU), the California Department of Education (CDE), and the State Board of Education to determine a high school students' readiness to do college-level work in English language arts and math and to provide students opportunities to improve skills during their senior year.

Report from Aspen Institute comparing the Common Core Assessment consortia assessment models.

Describes a new effort by UMass - Amherst to recruit community college graduates to the state university's flagship campus. Starting this fall, UMass will offer students who transfer from community colleges with a minimum 2.5 grade-point average priority course registration and housing, scholarships to cover hefty student fees, and special advising services. (Boston Globe, 03/22/11)

ALP is in innovative approach to basic writing programs that accelerates basic writing students through their developmental writing course and English 101 in one semester. ALP builds on the strengths of earlier approaches such as mainstreaming, studios, learning communities and bridge programs.

The Web site for the Accelerated Learning Program at the Community College of Baltimore County. The program is an extremely effective strategy for moving students placed into developmental English into college level English courses and providing additional academic support

The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University is partnering with the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) to analyze the effects of the college's Accelerated Learning Program (ALP). Under ALP, students placed into upper-level developmental writing are "mainstreamed" into English 101 classes. Preliminary results are very promising. Funding for this study is being provided by Lumina Foundation for Education, as part of the Achieving the Dream initiative.

Developmental Education Initiative Policy Framework for their states. Includes comprehensive framework emphasizing innovation, funding models, early assessment and interventions, benchmarks, performance funding, etc.

This forum held by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) will spotlight community colleges that address the challenges of developmental education and produce best practices for supporting students' progress toward degree completion. The forum will be held Monday December 13th. Speakers Peter Adams and Elaine Baker have worked with ECS and Getting Past Go in the past.

Blog post from Michael Kirst at Stanford on the literature review prepared by PRePARE for GPG. Remedial Education Policy at the Crossroads.

Examines the evidence base on reforming mathematics classroom pedagogy, which may be a potential means for improving the course completion and learning outcomes of developmental math students. (Center for Community College Research, February 2011)