College and Career Readiness

  • Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges

    Found In: Publications

    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. <more>

  • Certifying Adult Education Students: A Survey of State Directors of Adult Education on Certificate Programs in Use

    Found In: Publications

    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. <more>