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Curriculum crisis: The challenge of the '80s

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Developmental remediation programs designed to raise achievement levels of underprepared students have proliferated in the past decade. Despite the fact that these programs employ a variety of teaching strategies, a substantial subgroup of developmental students are unsuccessful in current remediation programs. They need a different curricular approach.

As the number of applicants declines and the demand for generating credit hours continues, the question is shifting from “Should less capable students be allowed to attend college?” to “What curriculum should be provided for these students?” The challenge for the '80s is to expand developmental education to include vocational education and post-secondary specialized education.

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  1. University of Houston, Texas

    Gay Goodman Ph.D (Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology)

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Her major academic area is Special Education. She is actively involved in mainstreaming efforts in education. Jo Ann Parochetti holds an M.A. from the University of Maryland in English. She was the Principal Investigator of a federallyfunded grant providing developmental educational services to entering Junior College students. She is presently on leave while teaching English in the Department of Defense schools in Japan for the University of Maryland.

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Goodman, G., Parochetti, J.A. Curriculum crisis: The challenge of the '80s. Innov High Educ 12, 47–50 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00892448

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