CC fast-tracks catch-up class
Grand Rapids Community College is fast-tracking remedial education to boost success rates, reports Michigan Live. Long plagued by a high failure rate, the college is now offering some students the...
View ArticleStudy: ASAP cuts cost per graduate
City University of New York’s ASAP program is cost effective when measured by dollars per degree, concludes a new study by Henry M. Levin and Emma Garcia. At six community colleges, more than half of...
View ArticleOne year to a two-year degree
Pima Community College‘s Sprint Schedule will let students complete a liberal arts associate degree in one year. Sprinters will take a mix of web-based, classroom and hybrid classes to earn least 23...
View ArticleAccelerating developmental ed
Three models of accelerated developmental education are catching on at community colleges, according to WestEd’s Game Changers series. Acceleration cuts the time in remedial courses, letting students...
View ArticleFastStart boosts math success, but not retention
Remedial students in Community College of Denver‘s FastStart were more likely to complete remediation and take and pass gatekeeper math courses, concludes a Community College Research Center study....
View ArticleCC cuts remediation to one semester
Community College of Aurora near Denver is streamlining remediation with hopes of getting students into college-level classes in one semester. Some students have needed as much as two years of...
View ArticleGAO looks at remedial ed ideas
States and community colleges are trying several strategies to improve developmental education, concludes a Government Accountability Office report. . . . two community colleges have implemented fast...
View ArticleAccelerated teaching
Teaching “accelerated” English and math is very different from teaching a traditional remedial class, write Katie Hern and Myra Snell, in Toward a Vision of Accelerated Curriculum and Pedagogy. In the...
View ArticleStudents do well on fast track to college English
An accelerated one-semester reading and writing course helped remedial students succeed at California’s Chabot College, concludes a Community College Research Center study. Compared to students in the...
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Colorado makes progress on remediation
Joshua Polson at The Greeley Tribune Professor Jeanine Lewis reviews complex numbers during class at Aims Community College. Colorado’s community colleges and state universities are improving remedial...
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