Research shows declining enrollment in remedial courses. In this blog post, New America's Tiffany Thai provides insight into whether this decline has been experienced equally among racial demographics and how recent developmental education reforms affect specific student populations.
As CAPR marks its tenth year, it’s time to reflect on the progress CAPR and the field has made and on the opportunities that lie ahead. Since its founding, CAPR has contributed to a transformation in thinking about best practices for developmental education.
In a new episode of MDRC’s Evidence First podcast, Leigh Parise talks with Nikki Edgecombe, a senior research scholar at CCRC who leads CAPR, and Michael Weiss, a senior fellow in postsecondary education at MDRC, about what has been learned about promoting equity in developmental education reform.
This blog post discusses the efforts that the National Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education 2022 took to center equity, students, and data in conference proposals and proceedings.
In this essay, CCRC's Maggie P. Fay considers Varsity Blues, community colleges, and the unequal application of academic standards.
Discussions with faculty at November’s CAPR conference made one thing perfectly clear: Now is no time to rest. Faculty from colleges at all different stages of developmental education reform were considering what they could do next to help more students thrive.
Tiffany E. Taylor, associate program officer for the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, outlines strategies for making developmental mathematics reforms more equitable.
In the first of a series of blogs from developmental educators, Katheryn McCoskey of Butler Community College writes about the need for educators to keep up with research on their field and study their local circumstances to improve outcomes for students.
In 2013, the Florida legislature passed a law eliminating placement test requirements for high school students and allowing them to decide whether they wanted to enroll in developmental education courses. This blog post describes research findings related to the reform, which indicate it has improved equity outcomes and accelerated student progress.
In this CAPR podcast, CCRC's Nikki Edgecombe, Susan Bickerstaff, and Elizabeth Ganga discuss how colleges could alter their academic and nonacademic supports to more effectively help all students.