What is Your Strategy?: A Framework for State Remedial Education Policy |
Jun 16th, 2010
Today, GPG released its policy framework for how states can more effectively integrate reforms to remedial education policy into efforts to increase college attainment rates. With over 42 million adults between the ages of 18 and 64 who are candidates for higher education, and likely have academic...
The Remedial Education Challenge |
Jun 15th, 2010
For many policymakers, the high percentage of college students who require at least one remedial education course in reading, writing or mathematics is a symptom of the education system’s failure to adequately prepare students for postsecondary education. A quick review of the data illustrates how easy it...
State Reports on the Cost of Remedial Education...
How much are states and postsecondary systems spending on college remediation? A legitimate – yet tricky – question, and one that the Getting Past Go staff keeps hearing from our network of state folks. In...Louisiana’s LA Grad Act Could Limit Remedial Courses at Four-year Institutions...
Joining other states, Louisiana has opened the door to making two-year colleges the primary – if not sole – provider of remedial education. Typically, states pursue this strategy by eliminating or...The Coexistence of Consistency and Creativity in Remedial Education Reform...
State Reporting on Developmental Education – An Analysis...
The Rundown on Remedial Education — Second Issue, May 2010...
Welcome to the second issue of The Rundown on Remedial Education from the Education Commission of the States’ Getting Past Go (GPG) Initiative. Since our last issue, remedial education has grabbed some...Texas Responds to Students Lacking Basic Skills...
A Houston Chronicle article reports that developmental education costs $200 million-a-year in Texas. Despite this investment, relatively few students who need remedial classes go on to earn a degree. Many...
Getting Past Go is a national initiative of the Education Commission of the States (ECS), Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI) and Policy Research on Preparation, Access and Remedial Education (PRePARE) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, funded by Lumina Foundation for Education to work with states to develop state and system policy to increase the college success of students who are placed in remedial and developmental education.
BruceatECS: Talking remedial education with state leaders in Fairbanks, AK. Impressed with their leadership on this issue #getpastgo »- BruceatECS: The case for reviewing course content to determine line between remediation and college-level work. #getpastgo http://bit.ly/9qoJyz »
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