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Bruce Vandal

Common Assessments: Comparing the Proposals - Curriculum Matters - Education Week - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...n_assessments_comparing_t.html

common_core assessments

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

State Policy Priorities for Developmental Education Initiative - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...+Policy+Prioritites+031010.pdf

Connecticut Florida North_Carolina Texas Virginia alignment assessment placement data performance_funding finance DEI Gates_Foundation innovation redesign policy student_services

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    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
Bruce Vandal

A First Look at the Common Core and College and Career Readiness - 1 views

www.act.org/...FirstLook.pdf

common_core ACT college_ready

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  • Bruce Vandal on 07 Jan 11
     
    Report from ACT assessing the alignment between the common core and ACT college readiness standards.
Bruce Vandal

How Do You Make America the Best-Educated Country? - Government - The Chronicle of High... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...65012

Tennessee limits block_schedules cohort_programs policy funding performance_funding

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  • Bruce Vandal on 14 Apr 10
     
    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.
Bruce Vandal

Emerging Collective Bargaining Issues in Community Colleges - 1 views

www.library.eiu.edu/...2008Handout_Friedlander.pdf

Unions faculty Faculty engagement

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  • Bruce Vandal on 07 Jan 11
     
    Paper presented at 2008 at NCSCBHEP conference
Mary Fulton

Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation - 1 views

www.publicagenda.org/...faculty_in_student_success.pdf

ATD faculty engagement community_college student_success

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  • Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11
     
    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)
Bruce Vandal

Altered State: How Virginia Community College System Has Used Achieving the Dream to Im... - 1 views

www.jff.org/...ATD_Altered_State_0.pdf

Virginia data remediation transfer

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  • Bruce Vandal on 20 Apr 10
     
    Report from JFF on Virginia's state strategy to improve community colleges through Achieving The Dream.
Bruce Vandal

NEA Grant Committee on Distance Education Policy and Bargaining Benchmarks - 1 views

www.library.eiu.edu/...2008Handout_White.pdf

Unions faculty Faculty engagement online

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  • Bruce Vandal on 07 Jan 11
     
    NEA Grant Committee on Distance Education developed the following policy and bargaining benchmarks having to do with distance education
Bruce Vandal

Community College Officials Pledge to Boost Graduation Rates - WSJ.com - 1 views

online.wsj.com/...4448304575196292433734212.html

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

Center for K-12 Assessment & Performance Management - 1 views

www.k12center.org

common_core assessment

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  • Bruce Vandal on 28 Dec 10
     
    Overview of the two common core assessment consortia by ETS
Mary Fulton

Early Assessment Program - California Community Colleges - 1 views

www.cccco.edu/Default.aspx

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    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.
Bruce Vandal

Assessment 2.0: "Next-Generation" Comprehensive Assessment Systems | The Aspen Institute - 1 views

www.aspeninstitute.org/...mprehensive-assessment-systems

common_core assessments

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

UMass courting two-year transfers - 1 views

www.boston.com/...umass_expands_outreach_effort

Massachusetts community_college transfer four_year_institutions

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  • Mary Fulton on 23 Mar 11
     
    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)
Matt Smith

Accelerated Learning Program: Community College of Baltimore County - 1 views

faculty.ccbcmd.edu/...indexa.html

English accelerated Maryland Peter_Adams delivery Transforming Remediation co-requisite

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  • Mary Fulton on 22 Apr 10
     
    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.
  • Bruce Vandal on 02 Nov 10
     
    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
Mary Fulton

Community College of Baltimore County's Accelerated Learning Program - A Multivariate A... - 1 views

ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Collection.asp

accelerated research Maryland delivery innovation jam2_resource-expert Transforming Remediation co-requisite

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    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.
Bruce Vandal

Developmental Education Initiative State Policy Framework - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...DEI+Strategy+032510.pdf

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

Forum Announcement: Increasing Postsecondary Success, Lessons from Community College In... - 1 views

www.aypf.org/...fb121310.htm

Innovation initiatives community_colleges remediation accelerated completion

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  • Matt Smith on 12 Nov 10
     
    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.
Bruce Vandal

Remedial Education At The Crossroads: From Education Commission Of The States - 1 views

collegepuzzle.stanford.edu/?p=1318

Kirst PRePARE GPG Blog

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  • Bruce Vandal on 12 Nov 10
     
    Blog post from Michael Kirst at Stanford on the literature review prepared by PRePARE for GPG. Remedial Education Policy at the Crossroads.
Mary Fulton

Reforming Mathematics Classroom Pedagogy: Evidence-Based Findings and Recommendations f... - 1 views

ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp

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  • Mary Fulton on 17 Feb 11
     
    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)
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