Institutional Decision Making for Increasing Academic Preparedness in Community Colleges
This publication identifies current organizational and instructional approaches to developmental education in community colleges and recommends a process by which colleges can make institutionally appropriate decisions to improve developmental education outcomes.
Remediation Beyond Developmental Education: The Use of Learning Assistance Centers to Increase Academic Preparedness in Community Colleges
This journal article details a case study on 15 community colleges across the United States and includes findings revealing important means of increasing students’ academic preparedness for postsecondary study.
The Unending Search for Equity: California Policy, the “Improved School Finance,” and the Williams Case
This article examines the logic of the “improved school finance,” which posits that understanding how resources are used at the school and classroom levels is necessary for determining equitable funding.
Classifying Two-Year Colleges: Purposes, Possibilities, and Pitfalls
This journal article discusses the purposes, possibilities, and pitfalls of classifying two-year colleges.
A Researcher’s Perspective
This article provides a researcher’s perspective about classification systems for two-year colleges