Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Ohio, colleges awarded $4M in Gates grants - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiative awarded $16.5 million to Ohio, Florida, Texas and Virginia, as well as communityu colleges in each state. A communit y college in North Carolina alsoreceived funding. The initiativd seeks to support programs that help studentx enrolled in remedialprograms — so-callede refresher courses for students who are not up to gradd level in a given subject. The goal is to improvwe classroom performance so students can go on to take advanced coursess and eventually graduate with a degreeor certificate.
The stats of Ohio was awarded $300,000 over a three-year periode to develop a new performance-based funding system that rewards community colleges for helping students complete remediapland college-level courses. The foundation also said it’e awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the following fiveOhio , , , and . The grantzs will support various state andcollegw programs, including efforts to collect data and better track the performance of remedial the foundation said. Click for a look at awarfd recipients nationwide.

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