SAILS

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Evidence · 4 claims (2 for, 1 mixed, 1 against) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description

SAILS is a computer-based senior-year remedial mathematics curriculum and programme operated through Tennessee’s secondary–postsecondary education system to help students complete college-level math requirements before enrollment.

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Claims

• Completing SAILS boosted first-year community college students' enrollment in college-level math by nearly 30 percentage points [+W]
• Under Tennessee's 2015 co-requisite remediation policy, completing SAILS no longer produced any boost in college credits [~W]
• The high school SAILS remedial math course did not improve math achievement more than a typical senior year math course [-W]
• SAILS completers had completed only 1.5 additional college courses after two years [+W]

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Key Sources

• Thomas J. Kane, Angela Boatman, Whitney Kozakowski, Christopher Bennett, Rachel Hitch, Dana Weisenfeld. (2021). Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? Evidence from the Tennessee SAILS Program. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 40, issue 3. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/is-college-remediation-a-barrier-or-a-boost-evidence-from-the-tennessee-sails-program

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title	SAILS
description	SAILS is a computer-based senior-year remedial mathematics curriculum and programme operated through Tennessee’s secondary–postsecondary education system to help students complete college-level math requirements before enrollment.
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generated	by process:sweep-kinds on 2026-10-10
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — thomas-j-kane-2021

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