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Standardization vs. Flexibility: State Policy Options on Placement Testing for Developmental Education in Community Colleges

This policy brief, created for Achieving the Dream, a national initiative to increase the success of underserved groups in community colleges, describes some of the options and tradeoffs states encounter as they make state-level developmental education placement policy. Achieving the Dream is funded by Lumina Foundation for Education, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, and Nellie Mae Education Foundation.