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From their About page, "The WIDE Research Center creates new knowledge about digital communication and promotes the transfer of this knowledge to school, workplace, and community contexts to promote learning, knowledge work, and citizenship."

Study done by Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center, Michigan State University, published September 7 2010. The study looks at the writing lives of over 1300 first year students, enrolled in a variety of secondary settings (and geographic locations), from large 4-year universities, to a community college. Executive summary, information about the survey, and a downloadable PDF.

TEDxTeen, filmed April 2011; posted Nov 2011. Warne defines "anonymous extraordiaries," the unknown people who make a big difference, e.g. the man who wrote Dr. King's speeches, or the young organizers (like Warne) who helped to organize a world-wide event that made a difference in a 25-year war in East Africa.

RO used this video in her penultimate class, which also included discussion of service learning, week 14, semester 4.

by Rose Asera, October 2011. Full report available to download. Case study report describes Virginia's process of redesigning developmental education system-wide. To start, developmental mathematics will be taught as a series of nine one-credit modules, with students taking only the modules they need. (originally bookmarked in GPG group)

Provided by Futurelab, Education Eye "brings you a wide range of exciting, relevant and useful innovations which are selected from the best of the web and updated daily." (from About page). At first blush, the site might seem tricky to navigate, but it is loaded with interesting ideas. Entries are color-coded (key is on the left), and you can also search for specific terms.

Presented by the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, this guide provides excellent resources to a wide range of cooperative learning publications, from a guide (Students Working in Small Groups) to key articles on the topic. There are two case studies, provided by instructors who have adopted some cooperative learning practices in the classroom.

By David R. Arendale from New Directions for Teaching and Learning, vol 1994, issue 60, pp. 11-21. This is a widely-cited article that explains supplemental instruction.

From the Hunter College Reading/Writing Center for the CUNY/ACT Basic Skills Tests, this rubric directs those who are grading the (New York City) city-wide exam.

JEC says that faculty must attend an 8-hour training session to learn to grade these exams -- and not all pass in the first session.

By Thomas J. Snyder in The Hechinger Report, May 3 2011. Snyder, president of the nation's largest state-wide community college (Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana), argues that governors who cut funding to community colleges are being short-sighted, and argues for the importance of community colleges in the economic recovery.

By Kevin Carey in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #15, Winter 2010. In this editorial, Carey (policy director of think tank Education Sector) argues that colleges are not fulfilling their mission to students: costs are rising and students are not learning (or even graduating). He argues for transparency and studies of the effectiveness of teaching and learning, and warns of the education-related lobbies that keep the rest of us in the dark about higher education.