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Dear Colleagues,

For decades, millions of college students—including more than half of all those enrolled in community colleges—were barred from taking college courses before passing non-credit-bearing remedial classes in basic reading, writing, and math. A shockingly large share of these students would never make it through remediation, let alone college graduation. These remedial or “developmental” courses saddled students nationally with up to $3 billion a year in tuition for coursework that led them nowhere, dealing a devastating blow to social mobility.

In the 2010s, stakeholders responded with one of the most impressive movements in decades to reform American education. State governments, higher education institutions, nonprofits, and philanthropies coalesced around a campaign to tackle the “dev-ed” problem. Successful strategies emerged and many struggling college students began to clear remedial-education hurdles.

But the dev-ed movement has largely stalled and vast numbers of students, many of them Black, Latino, and low-[link removed], remain stuck in the quagmire of traditional remedial education.

In FutureEd’s latest report, Incomplete: The Unfinished Revolution in College Remedial Education ([link removed]) , researched and written by our Senior Fellow Anne Kim, we examine what the dev-ed reform movement has achieved, why it stalled, and what needs to be done to get it back on track as the nation struggles with post-pandemic learning loss.
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Webinars

Rethinking Gifted Education
I moderated a lively discussion ([link removed]) earlier this month about FutureEd’s recent report, Excellence with Equity: The Case for Rethinking Gifted Education ([link removed]) . Authored by Senior Fellow Peg Tyre, the report outlines the policies and practices needed to expand advanced academic opportunities to a wider range of students. Joining Peg in the conversation were Homero Chavez, who has established an extraordinary advanced math program in a small, Arizona school district on the Mexican border; Jennifer Yonkers, the director of accelerated learning for the New York City Department of Education; and Jonathan Plucker of Johns Hopkins University, a leading researcher on advanced learning and a former president of the National Association of Gifted Children.

You can watch the webinar here ([link removed]) and read the report here ([link removed]) .

Promoting High-Impact Tutoring
On June 25, Policy Director Liz Cohen is moderating a webinar on how research on effective policy advocacy can build support for high-impact tutoring. Panelists include Paula White, the executive director of the advocacy organization JerseyCAN; Stanford University education economist Susanna Loeb, the founder of the National Student Support Accelerator; and 50CAN Chief Executive Marc Porter Magee. FutureEd and 50CAN are co-hosting the webinar through their AdvocacyLabs ([link removed]) partnership.

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Kaya Henderson on Teaching the Black Experience

In a recent conversation ([link removed]) with FutureEd Editorial Director Maureen Kelleher, former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor and FutureEd Senior Fellow Kaya Henderson gave a compelling rationale for the importance of understanding the Black experience in American history. Her startup, Reconstruction, offers supplemental classes in Black history and culture to families and school districts.

FutureU Podcasts

FutureU podcast hosts Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn tackle a range of timely topics in higher education in their recent episodes, from controversies over free speech on campus ([link removed]) to the confusing landscape of dual high school-college enrollment ([link removed]) and the changing value of a college degree ([link removed]) .

Finally, we continue to track leadership moves in the education sector in The Churn ([link removed]) and provide a listing of upcoming in-person and virtual education events ([link removed]) . Send your leadership news and events to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) , and we’ll be happy to post them. And get Churn updates in your inbox here ([link removed]) .

Thanks and here’s hoping everyone gets a breather this summer.

Tom

Thomas Toch
Director, FutureEd
McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University
[email protected]
@thomas_toch
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