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By Francis Christensen and Bonniejean Christensen, published by Harper & Row, 1978 (2nd edition). Essays for writing teachers.

RA excerpts an essay from this book, Week 8, Semester 3.

High schools and standards - encouraging critical thinking / analysis /perspectives

by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. New York : W.W. Norton, 2007. Called "The Strunk & White of academic writing." by Richard Bullock, Wright State University.

RA uses in class weeks 4 & 7, 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.

Posted by iLoveiLoveLucy1 to YouTube, March 24, 2010. No date given for the original television broadcast.

RA used this clip as comic relief following a series of re-tellings of the Red Riding Hood story (for a lesson on narrative vs. expository writing). Week 4, Semester 3.

By Ken Bain, Harvard University Press, 2004. According to its description, this book is based on a 15-year study and concludes that "it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand." The best teachers know their subjects well, but also know how to motivate and challenge their students. They believe "that teaching matters, and that students can learn."

RA discussed this in the notes for her lesson, week 3, semester 3.

By Liz Willen on The Heckinger Report, October 29, 2010. Remedial education is often an obstacle to college completion. Students required to take developmental courses become frustrated and are more likely to drop out than those who don't have to enroll in these courses. Research is underway to identify alternative models.

By UNESCO Chair in E-Learning, UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Blog, April 4 2011. A very brief explanation of, and link to, the OER Matrix, "a collection of college-level OER links, organized by course and by repository."

By Jeffrey R. Young in the Technology column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10 2011. This article looks at a handful of schools that are using recommender systems to guide students' course selection.

By Jennifer Gonzalez, Students column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2011. Studies conducted by MDRC have found that, "while students [in learning communities] do make academic gains, such as progressing more quickly through developmental courses, the gains don't persist beyond the semester students are involved in the learning community." Authors acknowledge that these are early findings and that later findings may prove different results.

By Rosemary Capps, August 2010. In this dissertation, Capps looks deeply at the persistence of 9 adult learners in a community college, while also looking at the literature of persistence, demographic surveys, etc.

By David Glenn in the Students column of The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2011. A Q&A with Rosemary Capps, who studied 9 community college students for her dissertation, which won an award at AERA. In this Q&A, Capps discusses the importance of developmental education, and how these teachers often made a real difference to the students that she studied.

Announcement of a Summary Report produced by Community College Research Center (CCRC) by Davis Jenkins, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Josipa Roksa, November 2009. The analysis looked at the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), studying a dataset of 24,140 first-time college students who enrolled in at least one VCCS course in summer or fall 2004. A PDF of the summary is available from this page, as is a link to the full-length technical version.

Posted by Shannon Sweetser to Socrato Learning Analytics Blog, April 1 2011. A collection of "jaw dropping" examples of infographics, all of which apply to Education. See especially #9: US Education vs. The World: Education Spending (and performance) and #10 - 10 Shocking U.S. Education Statistics, which includes stats on high school dropouts, math anxiety, and how education impacts earning potential. Unfortunately, the graphics are not well cited (sources are not clearly indicated).