Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Outcomes
2009
Achieving the Dream, a national initiative to improve student success in community colleges, has taken a multipronged approach to improving outcomes in developmental education. This issue brief describes how the fifteen participating states have concentrated their policy efforts on four key areas: preventative strategies, assessment and placement, implementation and evaluation of program innovation, and performance measurement and incentives.
Administrators
Teacher Trainers
Policymakers and Implementers
Instructional Staff