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By Mike Rose, and posted to his blog (Mike Rose's Blog) on August 13 2010; Rose published this piece as a commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education; the original article is available (on the Chronicle site) is available by subscription only. In this piece, Rose proposes a National Center for the Study and Teaching of Basic Skills in order to elevate the importance of basic skills.

As posted on VideoDetective.com June 6, 2010.

JE recommends the explanation of the game, which takes place in the half minute of the clip.

By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, published in Newsweek, July 10 2010. This article argues that American kids' creativity has been declining since 1990, in part because of the current state of education. In other parts of the world, there is a real emphasis on nurturing creativity in the schools.

By Robin Wilson in the Faculty section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept 5 2010. This article looks at the resistance to measuring learning outcomes -- and the progress that is being made, as well.

Posted by Robert Jacobs in Education Innovation (blog) on September 2, 2010. The model for school change that Jacobs outlines looks very similar to the GSCC project, in that both look at what's working and how it might be replicated, focusing on the positive (solution) rather than the more negative (problem). NOTE: The Harvard Business Review article that Jacobs refers to was published in 2005.

By Ian Quillen of the Digital Education (blog) in Education Week, September 2 2010. This study suggests that "Algebra I teachers who were trained in and used a program that allowed them to monitor students' progress on graphing calculators led to significantly improved achievement by their students on a researcher-designed test." This blog post (and the video link) both stress that it is the combination of technology AND professional development that has provided these positive results. \nNOTE: First link to Summary of Findings is a Texas Instruments report (TI produces the graphing calculator that is part of the study). However, the study was conducted with outside consultants, including SRI.

Stories of students with huge debt loads and a degree no one recognizes after attending a private, for profit, college. One school, Westwood College, has a class action suit against it.

Although this paper highlights Adult Basic Ed/ELL it has some interesting conclusions about eLearning and assessment.

Teachers tell how to improve public schools.

By Leila Christenbury (2006), Third Edition, Boynton-Cook/Heinemann, Portsmouth.

R.A. requested article from this book on Questioning Circles.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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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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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By Paco Martorell and Isaac McFarlin, Jr.; this version is the working paper with appendices, April 2010.

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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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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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