A Year-Long Professional Development Program for Faculty Teaching in Accelerated English and Statistics Pathways. Learn more at an upcoming regional workshop: February 20, Sacramento City College. March 20, Moreno Valley College. 47 California community colleges have participated in CAP’s Community of Practice to date, and an evaluation of CAP colleges by the RP Group […]
Acceleration Conference Coming to California
National Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education. June 24-26, 2015. Hilton Costa Mesa. For the first time, the National Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education is is leaving Baltimore and coming to California. The California Acceleration Project is co-sponsoring the event with the Community College of Baltimore County, home of the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), […]
Moving the Needle on Student Completion
CAP Featured in Lead Article of CCLC Trustee Publication. With the publication of California’s Student Success Scorecards, community colleges are facing greater pressure than ever to increase student completion. In particular the scorecards spotlight the need to improve outcomes for students classified as “unprepared” for college, those who are required to take remedial coursework in […]
The Promise of Broadening Access to College-Level English
The November/December issue of Perspectives by the RP Group features an article by Leslie Henson and Katie Hern about what happened when Butte College changed its placement policy to more than double the number of incoming students who qualify for college English. The short answer: completion of college English increased substantially and equity gaps narrowed, […]
New Directions in Community Colleges Features CAP
The California Acceleration Project is the subject of a chapter in the just-released edition of New Directions in Community Colleges: Applying the College Completion Agenda to Practice. Authors Katie Hern and Myra Snell discuss several factors that have helped build momentum for redesigning developmental education in California, including a shared understanding of the problem of […]
CAP awarded $400,000 grant from California Education Policy Fund.
The California Acceleration Project (CAP) has received a two-year $400,000 grant to create a blueprint for transforming placement and remediation in California. The goal of this blueprint will be to streamline the transition to community college and increase the proportion of students who complete college-level math and English in their first year, a critical early […]
CAP Year in Review: Highlights from 3CSN’s Annual Report to the Chancellor’s Office.
The California Acceleration Project (CAP) supports community colleges to redesign English and math remediation to help more students complete college-level English and math requirements. Since 2010, all of California’s 112 community colleges have participated in our outreach efforts, and 47 colleges are offering redesigned English and math pathways through our extended professional development program. In […]
Former CA Senator Calls for State Investment in Accelerated English & Math
June 10, 2014 – In an opinion piece for the Sacramento Bee, former California Senator and Secretary of Education Gary K. Hart highlights the innovative curricula being offered by colleges in the California Acceleration Project and asks, “Why isn’t accelerated remediation offered at all California’s community colleges? Why are most students still stuck in […]
