ALP Updates

Registration Form for Focus Group Project

print out Registration Form for Focus Group Project:  October 15, 2013 Name ________________________________________________________ Email address  _________________________________________________ Phone Number _________________________________________________ Course...

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California Acceleration Project Posts on 2012 Conference.

The California Acceleration Project has posted an article on its panel session, "Accelerated Reading and Writing across California" presented at the 2012 4th Annual Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education. Put up by Katie Hern, included are videos, power...

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Special Recognition – Leah Meyer Austin Award

At the Leah Meyer Austin award ceremony at the Achieving the Dream Conference this year, the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) received special recognition for its program that accelerates students through developmental courses and into and through gateway...

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100 is the magic number!

We are pleased as punch to have just gone over the 100 schools mark for ALP; in fact, we're now up to 101! 38 of these schools are listed under ALP schools on the top menu. If yours isn't, get on the map! To all those who have listened to our presentations, been to...

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Patrick Henry Community College

Located in Martinsville, Virginia, PHCC is an Achieving the Dream Leader College. Pass rates for ALP courses are on average ten points higher than traditional developmental English courses. Accelerated Learning at Patrick Henry started in the fall of 2009, with one section. It has now expanded to the Math department and Technical Writing courses. PHCC is a national leader in active, cooperative learning, with its own institute, the SCALE Institute, and is a national leader in active learning for community colleges.

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ALP on Huffington Post Live

Assistant Director of ALP at CCBC, Jamey Gallagher, did an excellent job representing developmental education and the ALP on Huffington Post Live. Unfortunately, much of the segment represented many of the misinformed attitudes towards developmental education...

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