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Trudy Smoke, Published in Journal of Basic Writing, Vol 20, No 2 Fall 2001, pages 88-96. This bookmark is to the citation in ERIC. Article is available through the ProQuest Research Library database.

By Michael W. Galbraith, and Melanie Jones in Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2006): 20-27. Author's abstract: This article suggests that a balance of the art and science of teaching is essential if the learning and teaching process is to be a meaningful and rewarding educational journey. This notion is explored through a dialogue, held over a 3 year period, with a developmental mathematics instructor at a community college who discovered that technique alone was not sufficient to becoming a good instructor. An unusual situation occurred as a result of the dialogue: Discussion of research-based literature on college teaching and personal experiential reflectivity merged and resulted in an organizing framework for understanding the artistic and mechanic elements of effective instruction. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

"The Education Commission of the States (ECS), in collaboration with Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI), Policy Research on Preparation, Access and Remedial Education (PREPARE) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, seeks to leverage developmental education at postsecondary institutions as a critical component of state efforts to increase college attainment rates through Getting Past Go. The national initiative will help education policy leaders align state and system policy to increase the college success of the large percentage of students enrolled in postsecondary education who require remedial and developmental education."

Spearheaded by John Squires (who has since moved to Chattanooga State Community College), this page outlines the redesign, looking at impact on students, cost savings, lessons learned, and sustainability. All data as of June 2009.

One poster contributed that his school was working on a redesign of their developmental math program, based loosely on the redesign at Cleveland State. Part of Student Context: Community.

on the California Community Colleges Success Network.

Mentioned in Putting It All Together. Includes guidelines and resources for acceleration in developmental education.

Results from a classroom research project focused on why author Katie Hern had only a 55% pass rate in three sections of her developmental English course.

Mentioned in Putting It All Together by author and Jam participant Katie Hern.

A national public policy initiative to improve developmental studies in postsecondary education.

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.

By Carl J. Jung (2005) in Journal of Developmental Education; 28.3 (2005): 2-11. Author's Abstract: The guiding premise of this article is that developmental education and learning assistance programs will continue to be undervalued and vulnerable as long as there is no overarching, shared theoretical framework that practitioners can (and want to) call their own. The traditional approach to addressing this theory crisis has been to import theories from outside the field. This article presents an alternative approach. Advantages and benefits of a practice-oriented approach are identified and briefly discussed. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.