How States Can Increase Student Attainment

How States Can Increase Student Attainment: Qustion 1. States are focused on educating and graduating increased number of college students. What are two to three important changes states can make to current policies, including funding, to achieve this goal?

Look at academic policies. Our definition of collegiate level course work doesnt have an agreement within the state, much less with the nation. What does it mean to do collegiate level course work?
•Policies on remediation need to be analyzed;
• Collectively defining what students should be able to master and be able to do to get access to collegiate level course work;
•Accountability policies, what kinds of public information are we providing? Evidence that work that is being done on college campuses is demonstrating improvement in these areas.
•Funding policies, how much funding are we spending on remediation? As an example, in Missouri alone we have estimates of over $20 million spent in the community college sector on remediation. Nationally we are spending billions, how do we know we are wisely spending that money and getting effective results for the use of that money?

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