92 percent graduation rate and an average GPA for its graduating seniors of 2.8 (slightly above the district average). When tested, however, 67 percent of their graduates were not ready to take freshman math, 57 percent were not ready to take freshman English, and 41.5 percent were not ready to for college-level reading.
Partnership for Assessment of College Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) - 0 views
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The home page for the federally funded project to develop assessments for the common core standards.
Education Week: Full Standards System in States Several Years Away - 0 views
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Story on a new report by the Center for Education Policy that indicates that many states are a long way from implementing common core and that many have not explored aligning the standards with higher education
Texas Senate Higher Education Committee Interim Report - 0 views
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Report in preparation for legislative session with recommendations for action. Report includes recommendations on developmental education.
TX Senate Committee Announces Recommendations - 0 views
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Blog entry from Texas Community College Teachers Association on recommendations from Texas Senate Committee on Higher Education. The report offers recommendations on developmental education.
Not Ready for College: States must have a systemic, comprehensive agenda for college pr... - 0 views
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National CrossTalk -- Vol. 18 / No. 2 -- December, 2010 Commentary by SREB President, Dave Spence on need for more comprehensive college readiness standards and accountability. Suggests that states uniformly adopt ACT College Readiness Benchmarks or something similar.
KY Council on Postsecondary Education Opinion Editorial: Working Together to Improve Co... - 0 views
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Opinion piece from KY CPE Bob King on the results of the recently released High School Feedback reports showing high percentages of high school graduates requiring remedial education.
Experts Begin to Identify Nonacademic Skills Key to Success - 0 views
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Discusses emerging research on cognitive and non-cognitive skills that contribute to student readiness for college and careers, as well as their success in completing college. (Education Week, 12/23/10)
Senate committee offers advice to colleges - 0 views
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Details Texas Senate Higher Education Interim Committee's study report. Committee offered 86 recommendations on variety of topics: dual credit, distance education, cost-cutting, performance funding, remedial education.
Making P-16 Meaningful - 0 views
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Discusses partnership between the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the Council of Chief State School Officers and the State Higher Education Executive Officers, which aims to to help the Common Cores Standards Initiative succeed. Will focus on: aligning the standards with college admission and placement requirements; and ensuring that colleges better prepare K-12 teachers to help students meet the standards. (Inside Higher Ed, 12/17/10)
State Reports on the Cost of Remedial Education - 0 views
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Provides examples of state and postsecondary system reports that include estimates of remedial education costs. Some of the reports reviewed by Getting Past Go offer general expenditures, while others provide more a detailed examination of the costs of delivering remedial education.(Mary Fulton, Education Commission of the States, July, 2010)
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Resource shared at the GPG Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7, 2010
Using developmental education to attain college success - 0 views
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Story on American Youth Policy Forum event on developmental education featuring the Accelerated Learning Program at Community College of Baltimore County and the FastTracks program at Community College of Denver
Montgomery College to look at redesigning its remedial courses - 0 views
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The newspaper article from the Business Gazette (MD) details the efforts of Maryland communities colleges and Montgomery College, in particular, to redesign remediation by integrating basic math and English skills into vocational and specialized major courses. By including remedial curricula within major content areas, faculties hope to increase retention and completion rates for students who require college prep.
A Report of the Commission on the Future of the Community College League of California - 0 views
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Report that sets ambitious goals to increase the college completion rates and decrease achievement gaps at California Community Colleges
Colleges tackle remedial education problem | The Connecticut Mirror - 0 views
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Story on the prevalence of remedial education at Connecticut colleges. Discusses efforts between colleges and high schools to work together to better prepare students.
SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) - 0 views
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The Web site for the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) that was funded by the U.S. Department of Education to develop assessments aligned with the Common Core Standards.
Interim Cut Score Setting for Florida's Postsecondary Readiness Test - 0 views
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The process used to set interim cut scores for Florida's Postsecondary Readiness Test (PERT)
Make-Math-Gateway-Not -Gatekeeper - 0 views
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Opinion piece from Anthony Bryk and Uri Treisman about the ways that mathematics requirements at universities impede, not facilitate student success. It outlines the key principles of the Carnegie initiative to build math pathways for students
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Shared by Uri Treisman at the Getting Past Go Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7.
Remedial and Developmental Education Policy at a Crossroads - 0 views
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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)
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Resource shared at the GPG Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7, 2010
Math a roadblock for many in quest to further education - 0 views
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Article on the challenges of remedial math for students in Michigan community colleges
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(Colorado's Strategic Plan for Higher Education, November 2010)