White House Focuses on Developmental Education
White House Focuses on Developmental Education
White House Focuses on Developmental Education
White House Hosts Community Colleges
On August 12, CCRC’s Thomas Bailey and MDRC's Lashawn Richburg-Hayes joined U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, along with White House Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz and other administration officials, to speak at a White House meeting focused on best practices in college remediation.
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, in collaboration with social policy research organization MDRC and scholars at Stanford, U.C. Davis, and Vanderbilt, has been awarded a five-year grant of $9,951,362 from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to create a center focused on rigorously assessing the effects of new approaches to remedial assessment, placement, and instruction.
February 18, 2015 | Achieving the Dream Annual Institute on Student Success
In this session, presenters introduced and discussed the research agenda of the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness (CAPR).