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Visher, Mary; Cerna, Oscar; Diamond, John; Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry – MDRC, 2017
Faced with many applicants with very low math skills, community colleges are responding with a variety of reforms, including restricting developmental courses to students with high-school-level skills. This brief provides context for the policy changes and describes the alternatives two colleges offer to those who don't make the cut. [This brief…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Mathematics Skills, Skill Development, Low Achievement
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Weiss, Michael J.; Mayer, Alexander K.; Cullinan, Dan; Ratledge, Alyssa; Sommo, Colleen; Diamond, John – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, enrolling more than one in every three postsecondary students. While their market share has grown over the past 50 years, students' success rates remain low. Consequently, community college stakeholders are searching with mounting urgency for strategies that increase rates of success. We…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, Graduation Rate, Education Work Relationship
Zachry Rutschow, Elizabeth; Diamond, John – MDRC, 2015
National studies reveal that 50 percent to 70 percent of community college students are required to take developmental, or remedial, math courses upon enrollment, and only 20 percent of developmental math students ever successfully complete a college-level math course. Taking up the challenge is the "New Mathways Project" (NMP),…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics