
Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor;Government Reform
Outlines the need to strengthen community college students' basic English and math skills as required for college courses in order to meet workforce needs. Describes promising approaches to improving developmental education and recommends state policies.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Computers and Technology;Education and Literacy
Reviews current practices in and strategies for incorporating innovative technology into the teaching of remedial math at the college level. Outlines challenges, emerging trends, and ways to combine technology with new concepts of instructional strategy.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Offers employers advice on the key elements of an adult education program designed to prepare adults for postsecondary learning and work and build a globally competitive workforce. Outlines employers' roles, promising practices, and quality assessments.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Education and Literacy, Energy and Environment, Government Reform
Provides overviews of issues, underlying factors, projections, and policy outlook for the state's budget, climate change effects, economy, education, population, transportation, water management, and workforce.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California

Outlines the essential elements of redesigning state student assessments: build comprehensive, up-to-date systems; link standards, assessments, and instruction; create common assessments via collaboration; create pathways to college; and maintain systems.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States;North America / United States (Northeastern) / Pennsylvania

Describes the foundation's work in supporting the Common Core State Standards for literacy and math and a design collaborative developing tools for teachers to help students meet them, including template tasks, instructional modules, and courses.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Outlines the need for data systems to assess educational transitions, completions, and labor market outcomes of adult students and workers in postsecondary, adult education, and skill development programs in order to strengthen policies and programs.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Profiles colleges' efforts to better define and assess student learning outcomes and ensure educational quality by using more integrative and competency-based measures, including "learning portfolios," instead of credit hours.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States