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Making the journey : being and becoming a teacher of English language arts - 2 views

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    By Leila Christenbury (2006), Third Edition, Boynton-Cook/Heinemann, Portsmouth.
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    R.A. requested article from this book on Questioning Circles.
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The PLN Matures. The Progression of the 21st Century Personal Learning Network - 0 views

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    Posted by The Innovative Educator on The innovative Educator (blog), August 18 2010. A look at real-world examples of 2.0 and social networking technologies enriching educators' interactions with their personal learning networks.
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In Texas Speech, Obama Renews His Educational Goals for the Nation - 0 views

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    By Jennifer Gonzalez, the Chronicle of Higher Education, August 9 2010. Before an audience at the University of Texas at Austin, Obama called for "the United States to produce and additional eight million college graduates by 2020."
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Memory Lab, Washington University in St. Louis - 0 views

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    Current research being conducted at the Memory Lab includes studies that pertain to education, including how frequent quizzes might improve students' retention of new materials.
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The More You Test, the More You Learn - 0 views

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    By Debra Viadero in Inside School Research, an Education Week blog, posted June 10 2009. Viadero describes the poster sessions at the annual federal Institute of Education Sciences, including a poster looking at the effectiveness of frequent quizzes for improving retention among 8th grade science students. For updated information on the study, follow the roediger tag.
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Basic Skills as a Foundation for Student Success in California Community Colleges - 0 views

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    Jointly authored by researchers, faculty, and administrators from The Center for Student Success and the RP group (the Research and Planning Gropu for California Community Colleges), March 2007.
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    Full text of this article is available in GSCC Polilogue. Login required.
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Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn - 0 views

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    Authored by the Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn and the National Research Council, published in 2003. This page offers free PDF download, as well as hardback copy for purchase.
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Remediation in the Community College: An Evaluator's Perspective - 1 views

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    By Henry M. Levin and Juan Carlos Calcagno, published in the Community College Review, vol 35 #3, pp. 181-207, January 2008. This link provides a brief abstract and citation. Link to full-text PDF (purchase). For full article, see your local library.
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Help or Hindrance? The Effects of College Remediation on Academic and Labor Market Outc... - 0 views

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    By Paco Martorell and Isaac McFarlin, Jr.; this version is the working paper with appendices, April 2010.
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The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach: Addr... - 0 views

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    By Juan Carlos Calcagno and Bridget Long, originally published as NBER Working Paper No W14194, July 2008. Here, the article is part of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). This link provides a brief abstract and citation information. Full article is available for purchase, and may be available through your local library.
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Answers in the Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, and Bachelor's Degree... - 0 views

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    By Clifford Adelman, Senior Research Analyst, U.S. Dept of Education, 1999. This article is included in the literature review conducted by SRI (evaluation team) for the summer 2010 Institute. For access to the full monograph, see link in first paragraph.
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Creativity Through e-Learning: Engendering Collaborative Creativity Through Folksonomy - 1 views

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    By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes a literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.
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Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel - 0 views

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    Hotel hosting Camp TAG-a-Lot in Baltimore, August 9-12, 2010.
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History of the Did You Know? video presentation - 0 views

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    From the shifthappens wiki. this page briefly outlines the history of the Did You Know video, and provides links to various commentaries on it. Also on this wiki (follow the table of contents in the left-hand navigation): sources used for the presentation and suggested uses of the presentation.
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Statway (Statistics Pathway) - 1 views

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    A program of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Statway focuses on helping community college students learn basic skills in statistics, data analysis, and quantitative reasoning as part of a one-year pathway. The ultimate goal of this pathway is preparation for college-level statistics. This home page to Statway also includes links to the project blog (called Pathways Connection) and to the project's mailing list. There are 19 community colleges affiliated with this project.
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The Case for Acceleration in Developmental English and Math - 0 views

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    On Faculty Inquiry Network. This page links to an article written by Katie Hern and Myra Snell for RP Group's statewide newsletter, Perspectives. The article, Exponential Attrition and the Promise of Acceleration, June 2010, argues that attrition can be guaranteed in long developmental sequences and presents evidence that one semester, open-access courses are a way to increase student completion rates in college-level English and math.
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At City College, a Battle Over Remedial Classes for English and Math - 0 views

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    By Carol Pogash, from the Bay Citizen; published in the New York Times, June 24 2010. This story looks at City College of San Francisco (CCSF), a community college with a particularly long sequence of remediation courses. A trustee made a controversial recommendation that the sequence be shortened.
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Community College Student Success: Programs, Interventions, and Outcomes - 0 views

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    A course presented by Innovative Educators, the course is available on-demand as a webinar. Full details of learning objectives and faculty bios available on this page.
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Father Guido Sarducci's Five Minute University - 0 views

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    Comic piece on YouTube; no date for Father Sarducci's original presentation. In 5 minutes, he can teach you what the average college graduate remembers 5 years after having graduated from college.
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Third Annual Summer Camp- Limited Enrollment - 0 views

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    Posted by Kristine to The official blog of PBworks, June 1 2010. As of June 14, camp was closed. Unfortunately, there are no further camp-related updates.
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