California Community Colleges May Adopt Common Assessment by 2010

Community colleges in California will be encouraged to offer a common assessment in mathematics and English for incoming students starting in the fall of 2010, the system’s chancellor, Jack Scott, said today at a news conference. The system’s 110 campuses have long offered dozens of incompatible assessment tests, which Mr. Scott said had wasted money, muddied transfer pathways to universities, and made it more difficult for students to move from one community college to another.