The California Acceleration Project
The California Acceleration Project (CAP) was founded in 2010 by two community college teachers who wanted to do something about the poor outcomes of students placed into remediation. CAP is a faculty-led professional development network that supports the state’s 116 community colleges to implement reforms that substantially increase student completion of transferable, college-level English and math requirements, a critical milestone on the path to degrees and transfer. These include using high school grades in placement; replacing traditional remedial courses with corequisite models; tailoring math remediation to students’ program of study; and teaching with high-challenge, high-support pedagogy in English, math, and ESL. CAP is funded through grants from the James Irvine Foundation, the College Futures Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation for California Community Colleges is CAP’s fiscal sponsor.