Ohio, colleges awarded $4M in Gates grants - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeawardecd $16.5 million to Ohio, Connecticut, Texas and Virginia, as well as communith colleges in each A community college in North Carolina also receivecd funding. The initiative seeks to support programs that help studentsx enrolled in remedialprograms — so-called refreshef courses for students who are not up to grades level in a given subject.
The goal is to improv classroom performance so students can go on to take advanced courseas and eventually graduate with a degree or The state of Ohio wasawardesd $300,000 over a three-yeafr period to develop a new performance-basex funding system that rewards communit y colleges for helping students completr remedial and college-level courses. The foundation also said it’es awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followinh fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantsd will support various state andcollegd programs, including efforts to collect data and betteer track the performance of remedial students, the foundationb said. Click for a look at award recipients nationwide.