Postsecondary Success
 NextDev Challenge: Assessment and Placement  PDF - The online NextDev Challenge event, hosted by the Education Commission of the States’ Getting Past Go remedial education project, solicited program ideas that could improve outcomes in developmental education. This assessment and placement brief examines bridge programs, review and test preparation, and assessment reforms. (HCM Strategists and ECS, May 2013)...
NextDev Challenge: Instructional Delivery PDF - The online NextDev Challenge event, hosted by the Education Commission of the States’ Getting Past Go remedial education project, solicited program ideas that could improve outcomes in developmental education. This instructional delivery brief examines accelerated and modular approaches, course sequencing redesign, and co-enrollment models. (HCM Strategists and ECS, May 2013)...
NextDev Challenge: Statewide Remedial Education Redesign PDF - The online NextDev Challenge event, hosted by the Education Commission of the States’ Getting Past Go remedial education project, solicited program ideas that could improve outcomes in developmental education. This brief examines efforts in Colorado, West Virginia, and Tennessee to design and implement statewide remedial education reforms. (HCM Strategists and ECS, May 2013)...
NextDev Challenge: Student Supports PDF - The online NextDev Challenge event, hosted by the Education Commission of the States’ Getting Past Go remedial education project, solicited program ideas that could improve outcomes in developmental education. This student support brief examines tutoring and advising programs, and learning communities. (HCM Strategists and ECS, May 2013)...
Moving the Needle on Degree Completion: The Legislative Role PDF - The College Completion Agenda hinted at how legislators could initiate effective reform. This document, produced with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, provides a roadmap that state leaders can use to reach their goals and presents action-oriented policymaking models that could sustain reform. (Matthew Smith, ECS, February 2013) ...
The Progress of Education Reform: Producing Quality Credentials PDF - This issue of The Progress of Education Reform presents emerging research on the value of credentials and highlights ways that states can leverage data and accompanying strategies to strengthen the fit between the production of postsecondary credentials and workforce demand. (Matthew Smith, ECS, October 2012)...
Surfacing the Top Ten Trends from the 2012 Legislative Session PDF - ECS’ Boosting College Completion project recently produced a report on the top ten legislative trends of 2012. The policy scan suggests that legislatures are focusing on meeting workforce needs through the creation of new programs of study and the streamlining of career pathways. Overall, seven of the 10 trends had a substantial workforce or economic development element....
Using State Policies to Ensure Effective Assessment and Placement in Remedial Education PDF - Recent research has highlighted the limitations of commonly used assessments for placing students into remedial education. This policy brief by ECS’ Getting Past Go project examined state and postsecondary system policies that regulate assessment and placement in light of the emerging research. The paper suggests that states and systems could increase the success of underprepared students through more effective policies and practices. (Mary Fulton, Education Commission of the States, May 2012)...
Choosing Who Delivers: The Impact of Placing Limits on the Delivery of Remedial Education at Four-Year Institutions PDF - From ECS' Getting Past Go website, this brief examines state and system policies that limit four-year institutions from delivering developmental education and considered the potential impacts of these policies on student success. (ECS, 2012)...
12 for 2012 - 12 for 2012 is an ECS “read of the field,” built on our scrutiny of new reports and research, and our analysis of emerging drivers of change. The 12 policy areas do not represent an exhaustive list of the critical issues for the coming year, nor is this report intended to dictate your education policy priorities for 2012. Rather, 12 for 2012 is intended to stimulate thinking around how best to craft the “2.0” of powerful policy across the states. (ECS, 2012)...
The Progress of Education Reform: Higher Education Reform PDF - This issue of The Progress of Education Reform looks at recent research in the areas of assessing student learning, the use of technology in instruction, and models for providing the academic and social support students need to stay on track and earn a postsecondary credential. (Bruce Vandal, Education Commission of the States, August 2011)...
Committing to College Completion: A National Agenda to Improve Postsecondary Attainment and Workforce Readiness - Hear what Hilary Pennington had to say about postsecondary completion at the 2011 ECS National Forum on Education Policy.
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College Persistence and Completion: What impacts student success? - Access related research titles from the ECS Research Studies Database. Links embedded in titles will take you to each study's major findings and recommendations....
Developmental Studies/Remedial Education: What is the impact of policy and practice? - Access related research titles from the ECS Research Studies Database. Links embedded in titles will take you to each study's major findings and recommendations....
Developmental Studies/Remedial Education: What role does and can it play in college completion? - Access related research titles from the ECS Research Studies Database. Links embedded in titles will take you to each study's major findings and recommendations....
Transfer and Articulation Policies PDF - An increase in the number of transfer and articulation policies over the past decade demonstrates that state legislatures and higher education governing boards have recognized the need for such policies. At least two-thirds of states have one or more of the following: Enabling legislation; Cooperative system or institutional agreements; Web sites devoted to clearly articulating transfer policy; or a transferable common core. (Matthew Smith, Education Commission of the States, December 2010)...
Remedial and Developmental Education Policy at a Crossroads - The Education Commission of the States and the Center for Postsecondary Research on Preparation, Access and Remedial Education (PRePARE) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, have released a new paper that contends remedial education has and will continue to play a critical role in ensuring access to higher education and increasing college completion rates among the large population of Americans who now need a college credential to fully participate in a rapidly changing, knowledge-based, global economy. (Getting Past Go, August 2010)...
The Progress of Education Reform: Investing in College Completion PDF - This issue of The Progress of Education Reform summarizes recent research that may challenge conventional wisdom on how and where public resources for postsecondary education should be dedicated in an effort to increase college completion rates. Questions to be examined include: 1) How did changes in enrollments and the allocation of resources result in declining college completion rates in the United States? 2) Does shifting enrollments to community colleges save money in the long run? and 3) Can investments in student services rather than instruction increase college completion? (Bruce Vandal, Education Commission of the States, August 2010)...
What Impacts Student Success in College Persistence and Completion? PDF - This Research Review is a compilation of research study summaries that address postsecondary success and completion. The recent studies address topics such as: transfer rates, pathways to degrees, declining completion rates and student engagement. (Molly Ryan, August 2010)
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Rebuilding the Remedial Education Bridge to College Success PDF - In this paper, Getting Past Go describes the current policy landscape for remedial education, explores the critical policy levers that guide the delivery of remedial education on college campuses and studies how policy has either facilitated or impeded innovation in the delivery of remedial education. It outlines some initial findings from the work to date and offers a proposed framework for further study of state and system policy related to remedial education. (Bruce Vandal, ECS, May 2010)...
State Reporting on Developmental Education Analysis of Findings  MS Word PDF - ...
From the ECS State Policy Database: Postsecondary Success - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
The Progress of Education Reform: Transfer and Articulation PDF - This issue of The Progress of Education Reform looks at recent research on transfer and articulation in light of the new movement to increase degree attainment by addressing the following three questions: 1) Do articulation agreements ease the transfer process and lead to degree attainment; 2) what are the factors that facilitate or impede transfer; and 3) how can four-year, baccalaureate-degree-granting institutions ensure that transfer students succeed?...
Community College Success: Is It a Path to Opportunity? PDF - This issue of the Progress of Education Reform looks at the latest research on student success in community colleges and offers insights on the strategies that show the most promise in promoting greater educational attainment for community college students. (Bruce Vandal, The Progress of Education Reform, vol. 9, no. 5, Education Commission of the States, September 2008)...
The Progress of Education Reform: Developmental Education PDF - This issue of The Progress of Education Reform will address the following three questions: 1. What are the challenges that developmental education programs face that affect their success? 2. Are developmental education programs an effective strategy for increasing college attainment rates? 3. How can state policy improve the success of developmental education programs? (ECS, March 2008)
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From the ECS State Policy Database: Postsecondary Success--Completion - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
The Changing Context for Postsecondary Education PDF - Complex and interrelated forces are driving change in America's postsecondary education system: demographic trends, shifts in the job market, technological developments, changes in state funding priorities, and ongoing reform and innovation in elementary and secondary education. Taken together, these trends and developments set the stage for a wide-ranging transformation of the way higher education institutions are organized, managed, regulated and funded. These graphics provide a few key snapshots of the changing context for the nation's postsecondary education system. (Education Commission of the States, May 2000)...
From the ECS State Policy Database: Postsecondary - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
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