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Alabama Center for Higher Education, Birmingham. – 1984
This conference, whose theme was "The Testing Issue," addressed problems encountered with standardized testing in Alabama's historically black colleges and universities, and predominantly black high schools. It focused on immediate intervention strategies designed to provide access to high school diplomas, college, graduate and professional…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Black Education, Black Students
Download full textWilkie, Carolyn, Ed. – 1996
This publication contains seven peer-reviewed papers from a conference on college developmental education with the theme of student success. The papers are: (1) "Reversing the Academic Probation Dilemma" by John Foreman and Nancy Ann Rossi on programming for students on academic probation; (2) "Reading and Writing: Tools for Problem…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Class Activities
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1980
The articles in this collection focus on new sources of energy for learning at the college level. The topics of the 25 articles include the following: (1) the emerging role of the learning specialist in higher education, (2) adult learning disabilities, (3) vocabulary development for students of English as a second language, (4) the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Developmental Programs, Dialects
