Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges

W. Norton Grubb is the Emeritus Professor and David Pierpont Gardner Chair in Higher Education at The Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA.Robert Gabriner is Professor of Educational Leadership and Director of the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program for Schools and Community Colleges at San Francisco State University, USA.

"Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges is one of the rare studies of higher education that takes us inside the classroom, in this case, community college basic skills classrooms. [Grubb and Gabriner] provide in just over 200 pages a comprehensive overview of the problems with instruction in remedial writing, reading, English as a second language, and mathematics and a set of recommendations for improving remediation." —Mike Rose, UCLA

• Chapter 1 Understanding the Quandary of Basic Skills: Framing the Issues in Community CollegesChapter 2 Developmental Students: Their Heterogeneity, Readiness, and PerspectivesSECTION ONE: INSIDE THE CLASSROOMChapter 3 Instruction in Basic Skills: The Dominance of Remedial PedagogyChapter 4 Innovation in Basic Skills Instruction: The Landscape and the Locus of ChangeChapter 5 Student Support Services: Their Possibilities and LimitsChapter 6 Integrating Student Services with Instruction: Chaffey College’s Long Journey to SuccessSECTION TWO: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON CLASSROOMSChapter 7 Assessment and Alignment: The Dynamic Aspects of Developmental EducationChapter 8 Funding, Resources, and the Money Myth: Effects on Instruction and InnovationChapter 9 Other Institutional Effects on Instruction and InnovationChapter 10 Solving the Basic Skills Dilemma: Conclusions and Recommendations