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What happened when Butte College changed its placement policy to more than double the proportion of incoming students qualifying for college English? The short answer: completion of college English increased substantially college-wide and achievement gaps narrowed, especially for Black and Hispanic students.

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This quasi-experimental study found "large and robust" increases in student completion of transferable English and math courses at the first 16 colleges offering redesigned, accelerated pathways with the California Acceleration Project.

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In this 2010 article, Katie Hern and Myra Snell make the case that high attrition rates are structurally guaranteed in long developmental sequences and that open-access accelerated courses are a promising way to increase completion rates in college-level English and Math. Published in the RP Group's statewide publication Perspectives, the article marks the beginning of the California Acceleration Project.

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