GettingPastGo

Web page for the legislatively mandated College Graduation Task Force for the Institutes of Higher Learning in Mississippi.

Alabama colleges saw a significant increase in the percent of students taking remedial math during this past fall. The story attributes the increase to a larger number of adults returning to postsecondary education because of the economy.

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

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

The Web site for the Common Core State Standards

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.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) works with educators, legislators, government agencies and citizens to support the public education system.

"The Imperatives for Change (IFC) Baseline Report is the culmination of a year of collaborative work among MDHE staff, institutional leaders and staff, and other valued stakeholders. The Baseline Report establishes the starting point for Missouri's statewide strategic plan for higher education, and includes four sections that contain baseline data information, expanded data and analysis, technical methodologies and data definitions, and institutional-specific performance measures selected and agreed upon by public two-year and four-year institutions."

"At the direction of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, the Missouri Department of Higher Education (MDHE) carries out the goals and administrative responsibilities for the state system of higher education."

This brief analyzes the costs of remedial education to institutions and students. The report addressed three key questions: What is the extent and magnitude of remedial course enrollment in Ohio? What are the consequences of remedial course needs, in term

The Institute for Higher Education Policy and the New England Resource Center for Higher Education collaborated on a pilot project that examines how policies designed to reduce or eliminate developmental education have been affecting the organization and

New York Times article on an initiative the National Center for Education and the Economy to provide board exams for students, beginning in 10th grade to assess college readiness and to provide early access into postsecondary education.

Article in Sacramento Bee. Budget cuts to California community colleges are, in some cases, resulting in cuts to developmental education.

Transition to College and Careers (TCC) Pilot Project. A "career pathways" model to help adults with limited education enter and succeed in college programs.

John N. Gardner - Senior Fellow and Distinguished Professor Emeritus - provides advice counsel, and intellectual leadership and vision.

Mission is to provide adults with educational opportunities to acquire and improve their literacy skills. State's longitudinal data study mentioned in Jam.

Description of program on Getting Past Go site.

The mission of this organization is to improve strategic decision making in higher education for states and institutions in the United States and abroad.