Feature: National Report on Developmental Education: Corequisite Reform Is Working

Today, the developmental education landscape is as complex, as contentious, and as politically fraught as it has ever been. In this essay, we seek to provide busy two-year college English teachers with a degree of clarity about the present moment in developmental education reform. This essay offers support for individuals seeking to enact corequisite reform on their campuses while also recognizing this work involves a great many variables, including state mandates, local student demographics, and local institutional histories and current circumstances.

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