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By Richard Perez-Pena, Education section, New York Times, July 20 2012. This article profiles the New Community College, CUNY's newest 2-year college, set to begin classes in September 2012. The school has been developed to test several leading theories of how to make community colleges better, including stricter requirements, no remedial classes per se (but all include a remedial component), experiential and collaborative work, and much greater student support. See tag ncc for related articles.

Our August launch meeting will be held on the New Community College campus; here is more about what makes the New Community College "new."

"The New Media Consortium (NMC) is a community of hundreds of leading universities, colleges, museums, and research centers. The NMC stimulates and furthers the exploration and use of new media and technologies for learning and creative expression."

By Tracy Jan, Boston Globe/boston.com, March 23 2011. University of Massachusetts Amherst is announcing a "new effort to recruit community college graduates to the state university's flagship campus." According to the article, there is already a state policy in place guaranteeing admission to most community college graduates who earn a 2.5 GPA and waiving tuition to those with a 3.0. This new effort will also offer priority registration and housing, as well as scholarships and special advising.

By Richard Kahlenberg, Innovations column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 26 2012. Kahlenberg looks at the recent New York Times article about CUNY's New Community College (see tag ncc) with a critical eye, identifying both some positives and some potential negatives.

New blog for Parents, teachers of, and students with LD/ADD online resource for postsecondary transition news

This may be a good resource for some of your students.

By Joe Cortina, Janet Elder, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011, 4th Edition.

This book was mentioned in TO's classroom practice, week2. Assignment is to read Ben Carson's "A Mother's Answer."

Media Advisory announcing a news conference to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Marisa mentioned that she and Liz were going to watch the streaming news conference.

In addition to bookmarking the home page of this site (follow tag: wep), I have bookmarked the About page where James Gee welcomes users and explains his vision for worked examples.

By Tasha Eichenseher in Mo'orea for National Geographic News, Feb 18 2011. This is a special report on biodiversity and indigenous knowledge.

Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.

Food section of Good (online) magazine, posted Dec 4, 2010. Good Magazine provided sources and invited readers to post new versions of the food pyramid.

RA cited as inspiration for assignment, week 6, semester 3.

Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the origins of what it means to be human. The study appears online in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B and was led by scientists at Trinity College Dublin: PhD student, Luke McNally and Assistant Professor Dr Andrew Jackson at the School of Natural Sciences in collaboration with Dr Sam Brown of the University of Edinburgh.

Scientific study of how working collaboratively enlarges brain size

By Tom Archedeacon, Dayton Daily News, July 22, 2012. Profile of Kayla Harrison, a Dayton native and favorite in judo. In addition to the rigorous training that it takes to get to the top, Harrison also had to deal with ongoing sexual abuse from the coach she had as a teen. Eventually, Harrison testified against her predator.

Not only a local hero to SS, Harrison was his student (at the time, he taught high school) at roughly the same time she was dealing with her abusive coach.

By Ros Smith, published by JISC, Sept 6 2010. Announcement and podcast posted on the JISC site. This newly published guide raises questions about the meaning of assessment, and how more effective assessment (ideally taking advantage of current technologies) might also promote the idea of students becoming lifelong learners. There is a 13 minute podcast with Ros Smith, the author. The new guide can be downloaded by chapter, of full guide (as PDF or Word docs). Also, until Oct 31, 2010, printed copies can be ordered for free.

From CBS News -- Byron Pitts' segment on illiteracy. See pitts tag for related bookmarks.

From WNYC - News. This is a transcript with a link to the MP3 (audio) file. See adding tag for related bookmarks.

From WNYC - News. This is a transcript with a link to the MP3 (audio) file. See adding tag for related bookmarks.

From WNYC - News. This is a transcript with a link to the MP3 (audio) file. See adding tag for related bookmarks

A project of LaGuardia Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning. Project Quantum Leap (PQL) seeks to develop new lessons and courses that focus on problem-solving and to integrate these into the developmental math curriculum. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

Mentioned in Choice Events, Radical Ideas - Putting It All together: Pilot New Elementary Algebra

From WNYC - News. This is a transcript with a link to the MP3 (audio) file. See adding tag for related bookmarks.

By Scott Jaschik, from the News section, Inside Higher Ed, March 30, 2010. Katrina Nichols, Rosemary Arca, and Marisa Klages took part in the annual meeting of the League for Innovation in the Community College. This article describes their presentation and the GSCC project more generally. Links to the GSCC blog.