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	<title>Policy To Performance</title>
	<link>http://www.policy2performance.org</link>
	<description>P2P aims to assist states with effective policy development that will support college and career readiness for low-skilled adults and adult learners.</description>
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		<title>Adult Career Pathways Training and Support Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit the Adult Career Pathways Training and Support Center, a resource for adult education providers designing and implementing Adult Career Pathways programs. The website’s features include foundational information about career pathways; a searchable bank of instructional, professional development, and support services resources; online training opportunities; and an online community of practice to network with colleagues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/adult-career-pathways-training-and-support-center</link>
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		<title>Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Achieving the Dream initiative, launched in 2004, aims to improve success among community college students through building a “culture of evidence” — a culture in which colleges routinely use student data to examine students’ performance and identify barriers to academic progress. As a participating community college in the initiative, it is expected that this evidence would be utilized to develop intervention strategies to improve student outcomes, inform further research on student progress, and bring effective programs to scale. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/turning-the-tide-five-years-of-achieving-the-dream-in-community-colleges</link>
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		<title>Pathways to Results Project Profile Compendium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This publication examines Illinois’ Pathways to Results project, implemented in 2009 to improve the state’s existing Programs of Study initiative. Illinois’ Programs of Study is a key component of the state’s efforts to increase college and career readiness through integrating and aligning curriculum and instruction. Pathways to Results engages secondary schools, community colleges, four-year universities, adult education providers, businesses and industries, and other organizations to further improve the Programs of Study efforts. Pathways to Results is designed as a five-phased process for local practitioners and partners to engage in systematic problem-solving that identifies solutions to improve student outcomes. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/pathways-to-results-project-profile-compendium</link>
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		<title>Certifying Adult Education Students: A Survey of State Directors of Adult Education on Certificate Programs in Use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This brief summarizes the results of a survey administered in 2010 to state directors of adult education in all 50 states and the District of Columbia commissioned by the Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy (CAAL). The goal of the survey was to determine the role of the states (via state directors of adult education) in awarding certificates for both academic achievement and for the application of academic skills to employment settings as well as how states were managing their certificate programs. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/certifying-adult-education-students-a-survey-of-state-directors-of-adult-education-on-certificate-programs-in-use</link>
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		<title>Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This publication, a working paper in the Assessment of Evidence Series released by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, broadly examines assessment and placement in community colleges. In this paper, the authors review and analyze the research on assessment and placement in community colleges to: 1) explore consensus regarding the use and the role of placement testing in community colleges; 2) evaluate the research on the most commonly used assessments, especially as a predictor or improver of student outcomes; and 3) consider alternative tools for assessment or models of assessment that might improve student outcomes.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/assessing-developmental-assessment-in-community-colleges</link>
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		<title>ABE to Credentials: A Breaking Through Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABE to Credentials is a four-year community college initiative launched in 2011 that seeks to increase credential attainment through scaling up the successes of the <a href="http://www.policy2performance.org/breakingthrough"> Breaking Through Initiative </a> and Washington State’s <a href="http://www.sbctc.edu/college/e_integratedbasiceducationandskillstraining.aspx">Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST).</a>
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		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/abe-to-credentials-a-breaking-through-initiative</link>
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		<title>Performance Incentives to Improve Community College Completion: Learning from Washington State’s Student Achievement Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This state policy brief gives an in-depth overview of the Student Achievement Initiative (SAI), a Washington State initiative to create performance incentive policies for community colleges.  SAI employs data and performance funding to motivate colleges to implement systemic changes in practice that lead to improved student outcomes. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/performance-incentives-to-improve-community-college-completion-learning-from-washington-state%e2%80%99s-student-achievement-initiative</link>
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		<title>It’s Not About the Cut Score: Redesigning Placement Assessment Policy to Improve Student Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This publication highlights the effect that assessment policies have on student placement rates in community colleges and details state placement assessment policy patterns for developmental education at enrollment; the usage of an approved placement exam (namely, COMPASS, ACCUPLACER, and ASSET); and the usage a standardized cut score or range for placement purposes. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/it%e2%80%99s-not-about-the-cut-score-redesigning-placement-assessment-policy-to-improve-student-success</link>
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		<title>Beyond Basic Skills: State Strategies to Connect Low-Skilled Students to an Employer-Valued Postsecondary Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This publication gives an overview of low-skilled student success trends in educational programs, the public costs of those trends, and the status of existing services. The authors review six policy recommendations for states.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/beyond-basic-skills-state-strategies-to-connect-low-skilled-students-to-an-employer-valued-postsecondary-education</link>
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		<title>Getting What We Pay For: State Community College Funding Strategies that Benefit Low-Income, Lower-Skilled Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This publication reviews the current state funding allocations for community colleges and makes recommendations for how states might change their funding priorities to improve student outcomes of low-income and/or lower-skilled students. In most states, funding for community colleges has remained steady; however, swelling enrollment has resulted in a net decrease in funding per student.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policy2performance.org/getting-what-we-pay-for-state-community-college-funding-strategies-that-benefit-low-income-lower-skilled-students</link>
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