A one-page summary that includes (at the bottom) the demographic make-up of the student population at South Texas College. South Texas is one of the colleges in the GSCC project.
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.
By Andrea Fuller in the Government section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 2010. At North Virginia Community College, President Obama signs legislation that ends the bank-based lending system for student loans. The savings from ending this program will be used to provide spending on education. The president also announces that Jill Biden will lead a community-college summit at the White House in the fall.
by David Glenn in The Faculty Section, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 5, 2010. See page 12. Jamie P. Merisotis, president of Lumina Foundation for Education gives the plenary at the annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in January 2010.
From C-SPAN, March 30, 2010. Speech was given at the Alexandria, VA., campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC). The President is introduced by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the Vice-President, and an instructor at NVCC. The President announced that Dr. Biden will host a national summit on community colleges at the White House this fall (see approx 18:10 on the video).
A GSCC connection - NH (GSCC instructor) also teaches at NVCC and was present for the visit. From her comments: "Jill Biden introduced him and some of her developmental English students were sitting behind me. When the President explained the changes in Pell Grants, they stood and shouted "Thank You." I was really moved because I am sure these grants will make a big difference for them in the future."
By Scott Jaschik, in Inside Higher Ed, March 18, 2010. This article the discussion of how to improve master's programs to better train community college writing instructors. It was held at the recent Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Foothill College (a GSCC school) offers the innovative and award-winning Math My Way program. From the description, Math My Way offers "a hands-on series of self-paced math learning modules that combine patient, caring, understanding instruction with a group of students who have similar math skill levels."
By Heather C. Hill, Brian Rowan, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, published in American Educational Research Journal, Vol 42 (2), pp. 371-406, summer 2005.
PA links to this article in Coffee Klatch and notes that Ball (et al) propose that effective teaching must be approached discipline by discipline (she works in math).
By Doug Lemov, published by Jossey-Bass 2010. Lemov was featured in the New York Times article, Building a Better Teacher, March 2, 2010. See lemov tag for the article.
This is an Education Week Leadership Forum taking place in Chicago on April 7, 2010. Brenda has noted the takeaways: Keys to building consistent data best practices at every school; New ways to leverage data you're already collecting; Techniques to keep district and school data users focused on achievement.
By Paul Basken, in the Government section, Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 21, 2010. President Obama's education agenda "seeks to inject more accountability into higher education through smarter use of data." This article is available by subscription. To access full text, check with your local library.
A strategy presented by On Course workshop. On Course offers a variety of recommended techniques, carefully organized (e.g. "Student Success Strategies." On Course also offers a monthly newsletter.