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Direct linkHern, Katie – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
Developmental courses in English, math, and reading have an important purpose in higher education, especially in the open-access world of community colleges. These classes--also referred to as "remedial"--are intended to give less-prepared students a chance to catch up and meet the challenges of college-level coursework. However,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Acceleration (Education), Remedial Instruction
Download full textTexas State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. Div. of Research, Campus Planning and Finance. – 2002
This document is the fifth in a series of biennial reports on appropriations for developmental education in Texas. Overall general revenue appropriations for developmental education increased from $182.8 million in the 2000-2001 biennium to $184.8 million in the 2002-2003 biennium. Appropriations in the 1998-1999 biennium were $38.5 million. From…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Educational Finance
Brown, Sonja – 1985
A task force was convened to study the relationship between early childhood development and future employability for potentially hard-to-employ youth in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. After an initial executive summary and overview, this report cites findings, conclusions, and recommendations, and discusses (1) the growing challenge of…
Descriptors: Children, Costs, Developmental Programs, Early Childhood Education
Fitts, Jean D. – 1980
Basic skills programs being implemented in New Jersey colleges are examined, and the statewide need for a centralized research and training institution that would inform, train, and provide technical assistance to college and secondary school educators and administrators involved with remedial and developmental instruction is proposed.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills
