Ohio, colleges awarded $4M in Gates grants - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeawarded $16. 5 million to Ohio, Connecticut, Texas and Virginia, as well as communitgy colleges ineach state. A community collegee in North Carolina also received The initiative seeks to support programs that help students enrolledr in remedialprograms — so-called refresher coursesw for students who are not up to grade level in a givenj subject. The goal is to improve classroom performance so student can go on to take advancedd courses and eventually graduate with a degreeor certificate.
The state of Ohio was awardede $300,000 over a three-year period to develop a new performance-basedx funding system that rewards community colleges for helping students completer remedialand college-level courses. The foundation also said it’ws awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followin g fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantxs will support various state andcollege programs, including efforts to collecft data and better track the performanc of remedial students, the foundation said. Click for a look at award recipientxs nationwide.