Cleaning out My Library (and sharing the best bits with you):
“Ability to Benefit”: Making Forward Looking Decisions about Our Most Underprepared Students, Patrick Sullivan and David Nielsen, College English, Volume 75, Number 3, January 2013
We support the following practices to address problems related to very underprepared students:
1. Allow very underprepared students two opportunities to succeed in developmental courses before turning them away.
2. Require very underprepared students to attend college part-time.
3. Appoint or hire an at-risk specialist, who can work full-time with struggling underprepared students.
4. Develop courses that contextualize basic skills instruction with occupational or discipline-specific course work.
5. On the high school level, create opportunities for students to follow their interests and pursue career choices as soon as they reach high school.
6. Establish vocational “career academies” in all secondary school systems.
7. Continue to develop innovative curriculum for underprepared students.
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