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	<title>Getting Past Go</title>
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	<description>Using Policy to Improve Developmental Education and Increase College Success</description>
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		<title>Using State Policies to Ensure Effective Assessment and Placement in Remedial Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a time when there is tremendous innovation happening with instructional delivery in developmental education, it may be time for systemic overhaul of assessment and placement practices across the nation. New research is demonstrating that the common, high-stakes approach for &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/05/02/using-state-policies-to-ensure-effective-assessment-and-placement-in-remedial-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/05/02/using-state-policies-to-ensure-effective-assessment-and-placement-in-remedial-education/</link>
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		<title>Remedial Limits: Creating Gateways, Not Barriers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a new policy brief, Getting Past Go examined state and system policies that limit four-year institutions from delivering developmental education and considered the potential impacts of these policies on student success. While, in general, few states have categorical prohibitions &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/05/02/remedial-limits-creating-gateways-not-barriers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/05/02/remedial-limits-creating-gateways-not-barriers/</link>
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		<title>Challenging Remediation’s Status Quo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger Scott Mendelsberg describes an early remediation program being piloted by Colorado GEAR Up. Right now, high school seniors across the country are receiving college acceptance letters, comparing financial aid awards, and making decisions about where they will pursue &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/05/02/challenging-remediation%e2%80%99s-status-quo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/05/02/challenging-remediation%e2%80%99s-status-quo/</link>
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		<title>Should Community College Developmental Education Borrow from K-12 Special Education?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger, Dolores Perin, suggests that developmental education could learn from K-12 special education practices. From time to time, people ask how many students in developmental education have a learning disability. This is a difficult topic , given the discomfort, &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/04/03/should-community-college-developmental-education-borrow-from-k-12-special-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/04/03/should-community-college-developmental-education-borrow-from-k-12-special-education/</link>
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		<title>Increasing Community College Students’ Completion: Toward an Action Agenda for Policy and Higher Education Leaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a presentation to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), Katie Hern, director of the California Acceleration Project, argued that long remedial sequences in English and math weed out students at the front door of community colleges. She also &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/04/03/increasing-community-college-students%e2%80%99-completion-toward-an-action-agenda-for-policy-and-higher-education-leaders/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/04/03/increasing-community-college-students%e2%80%99-completion-toward-an-action-agenda-for-policy-and-higher-education-leaders/</link>
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		<title>Measure Twice &#8211; Cut Once: Getting it Right with Assessment and Placement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the New York Times runs a story on assessment and placement strategies at community colleges, developmental education educators and postsecondary administrators better sit up and take notice. The story, which reports the findings of two recent studies by the &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/04/02/measure-twice-cut-once-getting-it-right-with-assessment-and-placement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/04/02/measure-twice-cut-once-getting-it-right-with-assessment-and-placement/</link>
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		<title>Getting Past Go Jam on Minority Serving Institutions and Developmental Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Role of Minority Serving Institutions in Developmental Education Join a national online discussion on best practices in developmental education at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) &#8211; March 6, 2012 (11am &#8211; 6pm eastern time). Join faculty, staff, institutional leaders, researchers, concerned &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/03/05/getting-past-go-jam-on-minority-serving-institutions-and-developmental-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/03/05/getting-past-go-jam-on-minority-serving-institutions-and-developmental-education/</link>
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		<title>A New Goal: Enrollment in a Program of Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enrolling students in a program of study as a measure of success for developmental education students. If you have not heard this statement yet, you will. Emerging research and programmatic activity that more effectively integrates developmental education into the college &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/02/14/a-new-goal-enrollment-in-a-program-of-study/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/02/14/a-new-goal-enrollment-in-a-program-of-study/</link>
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		<title>PARCC College Readiness Exam&#8217;s Approach to Assessment and Placement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Allison Jones has graciously agreed to provide a more comprehensive explanation of the PARCC college readiness exam and how it will be used for placement of students into remedial education.  We have clarified the initial post on the topic &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/02/06/parcc-college-readiness-exams-approach-to-assessment-and-placement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/02/06/parcc-college-readiness-exams-approach-to-assessment-and-placement/</link>
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		<title>The Impact of Common Core College Readiness Exams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have not been tracking the latest developments around the Common Core State Standards, it is high time that you should.   The new world order will undoubtedly impact developmental education as we know it.  Case and point will be &#8230; <a href="http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/01/27/the-impact-of-common-core-college-readiness-exams/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://gettingpastgo.org/blog/2012/01/27/the-impact-of-common-core-college-readiness-exams/</link>
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