Developmental Education: A Hot Topic

Below are several links (websites and recent articles) pertaining to developmental education and its role in post-secondary education. We invite you to share your thoughts with colleagues in the CCCOnline Community.

We’ll be out at the EDUCAUSE conference next week, but will be back here the week of Nov. 12!

Website of “Getting Past Go: A National Public Policy Initiative to Improve Developmental Studies in Postsecondary Education”:
http://gettingpastgo.org/

Website of the Complete College America organization:
http://completecollege.org/

“Broken but Useful” by Paul Fain (8/21/12)

From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/21/remediation-may-serve-useful-purposes-study-finds

Guest Commentary: “Community colleges focus on remedial education” by Nancy J. McCallin and Geri Anderson (CCCS) (7/28/12)
From the Denver Post:
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_21176037/community-colleges-focus-remedial-education

“Researchers Are Rallied to Help Improve Remedial Education, Not Scrap It” by Jennifer González (6/21/12)
From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Researchers-Are-Rallied-to/132513/

“Overkill on Remediation?” by Paul Fain (6/19/12)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/19/complete-college-america-declares-war-remediation

“Myriad approaches to developmental ed” by Ellie Ashford (2/9/12)
From Community College Times:
http://www.communitycollegetimes.com/Pages/Academic-Programs/Colleges-improve-developmental-education.aspx