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Acceleration Strategies in the New Developmental Education Landscape
Author(s) -
Venezia Andrea,
Hughes Katherine L.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.20079
Subject(s) - remedial education , scrutiny , community college , pedagogy , mathematics education , public relations , psychology , political science , sociology , medical education , law , medicine
The college completion agenda, in concert with recent research, has brought scrutiny to the shortcomings of community college remedial programs. Remedial, or developmental, education has come to be seen as a hindrance to student progress and attainment rather than as a support. In this chapter, the authors describe new approaches to help students prepare for and move into college‐level courses more quickly, while cautioning that we do not know yet whether many of them are effective.