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Practice Exercises for Students

L.C. used with students for a lesson on revision, Week 5, Semester 3.

By Paul G. West and Lorraine Victor, prepared for The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, May 2011. This paper appears to be an excellent resource for collections of OER, both in the US and around the world.

By George Lorenzo, 2011. A renewed interest in community colleges is resulting in looking at driving factors for the future success. This report looks at the potential solutions proposed in papers that came out of The White House Summit on Community Colleges held on October 5, 2010. These include industry partnerships, providing a more well-rounded education with career training, better support services at community colleges,etc. Lorenzo mentions The Learn and Earn initiative, technology with online and hybrid courses, open education resources and other ways to engage students. He looks at college readiness and what Complete College America, a new nonprofit organization, advises as ways to address this shortcoming.

By the SOURCE on Community College Issues, Trends & Strategies, May 2011. For this report, the SOURCE's editor-in-chief interviewed eleven community college leaders from across the country. Questions relate to: college readiness, remedial education, workforce development, educational technologies, student services, data analysis, funding/grants

By Garret Keizer in Harper's Magazine, September 2011.

R.A. shared in Sept coffeeklatch noting that a friend of hers had sent "this article about teaching in a rural high school in Vermont that I wanted to share. It's beautifully written and a valediction/vindication for what we do."

Lumina Foundation Focus, Winter 2011. This issue concentrates on learning: what are students learning, what should they be learning, what knowledge skills and other competencies must they have to thrive? Marisa Klages discusses the role of e-Portfolios.

G.M. posted the link to this publication in March coffee klatch

College catalog, used by students for course selection. PHCC is one of the GSCC participating schools.

M.Z. used the course catalog in a lesson, week 13, semester 2.

By H.G. Wells, posted on HorrorMasters.com website. First published in book form in 1911 with other stories, Country of the Blind was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904.

R.S. assigned this for his class, week 9, semester 2.

"As many as four out of five community college students in the United States want to transfer to a four-year institution so they can obtain a bachelor's degree, according to a report released Thursday by the College Board."