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These publications, authored by David T. Conley, all look at issues relating to college and career readiness. CEPR is located at the University of Oregon.

Website run by Skip Downing, author of On Course: Strategies for Success in College and in Life. The site provides practical applications of the On Course principles (free of charge). Strategies are designed with the goal of empowering students to become active, responsible learners. There are links to descriptions of workshops and to registration options.

Passionate about the impact of technology integration on student success! 2006 TCEA Classroom Teacher of the Year. Carol Mortensen: Blogger. Author.

Douglas B. Reeves is the founder of the The Leadership and Learning Center and author of 30 books and many articles on leadership and organizational effectiveness, particularly in the school system.

Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is the author of "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education" (2010). The site has links to her articles on external sites and videos of aired interviews.

By Benedict Carey in the Health section, The New York Times, September 6, 2010. The author shares findings that contradict common knowledge about study habits. Techniques that have had proven success in studies are alternating study environments, mixing content, spacing study sessions and self-testing.

Website of Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In 2009, Willingham authored Why Students Don't Like School and writes extensively on applications of cognitive psychology to K-12 education.

Study authored by Julie Edmunds and published on the SERVECenter site of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010. According to the abstract, "North Carolina has established the largest number of Early College High Schools (ECHS) in the United States." This study finds that, based on 9th grade results, ECHS "are creating more positive school environments for students." Study can be downloaded from this page.

author of study was a participant

By Richard DuFour, published in Educational Leadership, May 2004, V. 61, N. 8, p 6-11. Educational Leadership is a publication of ASCD. Author discusses the concepts of Professional Learning Communities, the ideas behind their core principles and how the principles guide schools' efforts to sustain the professional learning community model until it becomes inherent in a school's culture.

Authored by Clifford Adelman and published by the U.S. Department of Education (ED.gov), 2006. From the Executive Summary, the document "is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s." Both PDF and Word Doc available from this page.