We share what we learned from curricular mapping to help higher-education systems better understand the structural and institutional barriers created through policies that impact student success, and to suggest how they can be addressed.
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SStF: How Course Pathway Maps Increase Student Success
As developmental education reforms gain momentum across the country, course pathway maps help policymakers improve the student experience by identifying roadblocks to math and English course completion and, ultimately, a college degree. Course pathway maps create a visual guide, connecting the dots between every class in a sequence ending with the first college-level math or English course applicable to a degree.
12 States Accelerate Developmental Education Reforms During the Pandemic
Amid unprecedented challenges to nearly every aspect of higher education, it’s been difficult to continue commitments to institutional and systemic change made before the pandemic. However, Strong Start to Finish (SStF) continues to push through these difficult times to advance developmental education and support the 4.8 million students that this work now impacts.
3 Reasons Why Developmental Education Reform Is Building Momentum
It is not often that an educational reform movement takes hold in both policy and practice. Yet, over the past decade the momentum to reform developmental education has intensified. Here are three reasons why.
