The White House will host a second College Opportunity Summit on Dec 4. The meeting will focus on encouraging first-generation, low-income and minority students to enroll in college, persist and earn degrees.
Community colleges, which received little attention in the first summit in January, have been the focus of attention by the Obama administration.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz hosted a discussion last week with community college and nonprofit leaders on effective ways to help poorly prepared college students.
Fourteen community colleges made commitments to improve remedial education. For example, Macomb Community College will mandate a college skills course for all remedial students, reports Inside Higher Ed.
In July, the White House and the Harvard Graduate School of Education convened K-12 and higher education leaders to explore strategies to improve the effectiveness of college advising and support school counselors. Another working session focused on college readiness and enrollment.
Education Department funding will support a new Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness (CAPR) led by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia and the social policy research organization MDRC. The center will focus on college readiness research.
In addition, Khan Academy will work on technology-based solutions to improve student success in developmental math.
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