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By Anthony S. Bryk in Phi Delta Kappan April 2009, vol 90 (8), pp. 597-600. Bryk, president of the Carnegie Foundation, argues for a "Design, Educational Engineering, and Development infrastructure...." Abstract available on this page. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library; they might be able to obtain it for you through interlibrary loan.

A national public policy initiative to improve developmental studies in postsecondary education.

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.

Ewell, P. (2009, November) Occasional Paper 1 by National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

In 1987, Peter Ewell delivered a paper at the AAHE Assessment Forum entitled "Assessment, Accountability, and Improvement: Managing the Contradiction." This NILOA Occasional Paper analyzes what is the same and what has changed over the past two decades, and offers suggestions for how institutions can manage the persistent tension between the twin purposes of assessment in the current higher education environment.

A comprehensive evaluation of Achieving the Dream, a nationwide program designed to boost the academic success of community college students, reveals that overall trends in student outcomes at the first 26 institutions to join the project remained relatively unchanged after five years, even though the colleges adopted a wide range of strategies to improve them.

Excellent resource on e-portfolios. Faculty e-portfolios are a cornerstone of Global Skills for College Completion - a Gates Foundation funded project on improving pedagogy to increase student success (globalskillcc.org)

By Tom Stoppard, published by Samuel French, 1993. This is the worldcat record, which will direct you to other editions and formats, as well as help you to find Arcadia in a library near you.

Mentioned in the context of blending math and English in order to improved contextualization. When the instructor teaches this play in her English class, she has a math instructor join her to discuss fractals and their relevance to math.