McGraw-Hill Higher Education Underscores Commitment to Improving Developmental Education in U.S. Colleges

NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a commitment to improving developmental education in colleges and universities across the country, McGraw-Hill Education is joining with the Kellogg Institute at the National Center for Developmental Education to provide professional development for college instructors in this field. The two organizations have established the McGraw-Hill/Kellogg Developmental Educator Scholarship to recognize instructors committed to innovation in developmental education by providing full scholarships to the 2012 Kellogg Institute for the Training and Certification of Developmental Educators.

Underprepared students in need of developmental education are entering colleges at alarming rates - 63 percent of students at two-year colleges and 40 percent at four-year institutions are in need of remediation nationally - and statistics show that those who take remedial courses are more likely to drop out. To answer President Obama's call for increasing college graduation rates and maintaining the nation's global competitiveness in education and workforce development, colleges and universities across the nation are innovating and redefining developmental education programs.

Earlier this year, McGraw-Hill launched a highly effective development educational pilot program, Bridging to College Success, at six Ohio institutions, to close the remediation gap and increase college students' opportunities to excel and graduate. The successful pilot used the latest adaptive learning technologies to personalize the program for each student. Several hundred students graduated from the program and are now enrolled in four- and two-year colleges with the skills they need to succeed, rather than spending additional money and time completing developmental courses that are required to begin college level work.

"We're expanding our commitment to developmental education because the issue of college freshmen 'un-readiness' for rigorous college-level coursework is a major barrier to their success in the classroom and their ability to graduate on time or at all," said Beth Mejia, executive director of developmental education at McGraw-Hill Higher Education. "We're proud to join with the Kellogg Institute, a premier institution dedicated to advancing the field of developmental education, to offer professional development training for today's educators leading this charge."

Applications for the McGraw-Hill/Kellogg Developmental Educator Scholarship are available through the National Center for Developmental Education at http://www.ncde.appstate.edu/kellogg . The application deadline is January 17, 2012. Awards will be presented at the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE) 2012 conference in February in Orlando, Fla.

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