@AccelerationCA

Supporting California’s 116 community colleges to transform remediation and increase student completion and equity

 California, USA
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Joined June 2016
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60 faculty union members from 18 colleges have signed on to a letter supporting #AB1705. We are disappointed that our union leaders in @FACCC & @CFTunion have opposed a bill so critical for students. @ASM_Irwin bit.ly/FacultyUnionMemberSup… @SenatorLeyva
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New @AccelerationCA Report: 47 #CACommunityColleges plan to continue to enroll students in remedial classes in fall 2022, despite their own data showing this undermines student completion. This is why we need #AB1705 @SenatorLeyva @rosilicie bit.ly/AB705Improvement
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New CAP report spotlights how CA community colleges are achieving high, racially equitable math & English completion under #ab705 #coreqworks #EdEquity @CalCommColleges @ASM_Irwin bit.ly/Gazette2022
Cover of the report "Leading for Strong and Equitable Completion" with image of students in graduation cap and gown

ALT Cover of the report "Leading for Strong and Equitable Completion" with image of students in graduation cap and gown

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3. Investments in strong and equitable completion: Dedicating resources to expanded tutoring, reassigned time for #ab705 coordinators, supportive classroom facilities, responsive research, and faculty development
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4. Cross-campus attention to implementation challenges: Using multi-functional teams to build support for change, identify problems, develop solutions, and engage in ongoing improvement
Tune in Dec 9 for webinar offering first glimpse of data from second year of CA's landmark remediation reform law #ab705. How has the pandemic affected the reforms? Is AB 705 leading to better—and more equitable—student outcomes? @PPICNotes @ASM_Irwin ppic.org/event/community-col…

Community College Math in California's New Era of Student Access

Over the past few years, a landmark law (AB 705) has required California’s community colleges to move away from remedial courses, dramatically expanding student access to the math and English courses...

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Great op-ed by civil rights attorney: CA community colleges are still wasting Black and Latino students’ time with remedial courses despite state law supposed to prevent this #ab705 @publicadvocates @CollegeOpp @SMAC_CCSF @EdTrustWest edsource.org/?page_id=663838 via @edsource

COMMENTARY: Community colleges are still wasting Black and Latino students’ time

By shrugging off the law against putting students into noncredit, nontransferrable remedial courses, colleges continue to trap students in a never-ending cycle leading to failure.

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Thank you @ASM_Irwin for the great conversation today about the amazing gains CA has made under #ab705 and next steps for ensuring that ALL students benefit @CollegeOpp @CalCommColleges
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Thank you @AsmJoseMedina for the great conversation about how to ensure all CA students benefit from the gains #ab705 has made possible!
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Great conversation today with the office of Assemblymember @Evan_Low about next steps for strengthening #ab705 to further increase completion & racial equity. Thank you to legislative staff Caitlin Voorhees and folks from @SMAC_CCSF @EdTrustWest @CalCommColleges and @CalCompetes
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California community colleges unable to justify placing students in remedial classes, study finds edsource.org/?page_id=662777 via @edsource

California community colleges unable to justify placing students in remedial classes, study finds

Most of California's community colleges are still placing students in remedial classes, but a new study finds they can't justify doing so.

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New blog about 360 degree whiteboards as an equity strategy in a corequisite-supported precalculus class open to all students, by guest author Sophia Lee @CitrusCollege #coreqswork #ab705 accelerationproject.org/Blog…
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New report from @AccelerationCA analyzes the validation studies 114 CA community colleges submitted to state Chancellor's Office, finding invalid, inequitable placement practices widespread #ab705 #equity accelerationproject.org/Port…
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Central Valley Higher Ed Consort features CAP blog by Jamie Moore about how she used oral history to transform research writing in her composition class @PuenteProject @COSGiant cvhec.org/cvhec-guest-blog-w…
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New blog from Prof Jamie Moore about using oral history to transform her research assignments, elevate the voices of students' communities, and help students claim their research identities. Convo with the author Fri 10/1, 3:30pm @COSGiant @PuenteProject accelerationproject.org/Blog…
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Have you noticed that student engagement starts to drop around week 3 of the term? Great new blog from @SacCityCollege Professor Jesus Limón Guzman about how to reverse this trend with the intentional use of peer models in class. accelerationproject.org/Blog…
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