Month: March 2012

In Conn., a new approach to developmental math

Connecticut community colleges are using Achieving the Dream’s systemic process of institutional improvement to revise developmental math using STATWAY.

STATWAY, created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, teaches arithmetic and algebraic concepts within the context of statistics. Students going into the humanities and social studies are the target audience for the dramatically different curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.

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Addressing the challenges of equity on campuses

DALLAS — Building a culture of equity on college campuses is challenging because cultural practices and attitudes that create hurdles for students are often unseen, according to community college leaders who have made equity a priority at their institutions.

Equitable—rather than equal—treatment of students is like the differentiated care that hospital emergency rooms provide. Just as people suffering heart attacks receive different treatment than those with fractured bones, so students need different services depending on their needs, equity advocates said during a panel discussion with two-year college leaders at the Achieving the Dream annual conference this week.

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