CAPR Blog
Video: Reforming Math Pathways at California’s Community Colleges
CAPR Link Roundup: Reform from East to West and in Between
With colleges around the country experimenting with reforms to developmental education, researchers are partnering with them to measure the effect of the changes. Today, we're rounding up some recent studies of developmental ed reforms, including Florida’s dramatic overhaul from 2013, California’s growing movement to reform placement and developmental pathways, and Virginia and North Carolina’s efforts to combine developmental reading and writing into one literacy-reinforcing discipline.
2017 Developmental Education State Legislative Action Update
Erin Whinnery, a policy researcher for Education Commission of the States, reviews recent state legislative action regarding developmental education in three broad areas: delivery and governance, accountability and reporting, and financing and affordability.
Video: The Intersection of Policy, Research, and Practice
How Developmental Education Policy Gets Done
At CAPR's annual meeting on June 29, a discussion between CAPR’s Nikki Edgecombe, Dustin Weeden of the National Conference of State Legislatures, and Christina Whitfield of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association turned up valuable insights for higher education reformers. CCRC Communications Specialist Elizabeth Ganga highlights the main points from this session.
The Unfulfilled Promise of Developmental Education: Effects, Problems, and Current Reforms
Di Xu, an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, discusses her recent study on how outcomes differ for lower and higher level developmental students, and what colleges are doing to improve developmental education outcomes.