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This program is offered by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, as part of its Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative, and is a contribution to the national dialogue on assessment in education.

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

Public Agenda provides research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life.

Mentioned by Jammer in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto as a potential collaborator to promote public dialogue.

By Doug Lederman, April 4, 2011 Inside HigherEd The author discusses a new campaign by AFT Higher Education. The effort will have members of the American Federation of Teachers (represented by more than 200,000 college and university instructors, professional staff and graduate students) more directly involved in national and campus discussions on student success in higher education.

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan (2008) This page is the announcement of the book from LaGuardia Community College and the text/video of Dr. Mellow's lecture for the Robert H. Atwell lecture.

Transcript from video Discounted Dreams

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto. She includes this quote by Kay McClenney: "If we can't find ways to more effectively educate beyond the high school level, larger numbers of our population, including especially those that have traditionally been underserved, we as a country are going to sink like a rock. This is not the right time in our history to be saying, oh, we were only kidding about educational opportunity to low-income people, students of color, first generation college students. They're the future. They are the growing majority of the American population and we can't choose to close that door."