The location of developmental education in community colleges: a discussion of the merits of mainstreaming vs. centralization. From: Community College Review | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Perin, Dolores | COPYRIGHT 2002 North Carolina State University, Department of Adult & Community College Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This study compares mainstreaming and centralizaton, two ways in which community colleges organize developmental education. Based on previous literature, the two models are compared in terms of instructional quality, ancillary services, teacher characteristics, student reactions, and reputation of remediation. Pending empirical evidence for the superiority of one model to another, recommendations are offered to college administrators and state policy makers for maximizing the effec...

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