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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.

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 Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001. GSCC utilizes an AI approach to working together. There is a new edition of this book being published next month. This link goes to the title on Worldcat where you can locate a copy in a library.

Produced by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Division of Information Technology at LaGuardia Community College, part of The City University of new York. September 2010. Includes profiles of the student body (general and entering students), enrollment profile, and demographics about degrees earned.

Part of the Contextualization discussion, backing up the statistic that, at LaGuardia, more students need developmental math than writing.

A project of LaGuardia Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning. Project Quantum Leap (PQL) seeks to develop new lessons and courses that focus on problem-solving and to integrate these into the developmental math curriculum. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

Mentioned in the Contextualization thread, as an example of a program that allows students to learn within the context of "real world" projects like the environment and climate change.

By Gerry Everding, as part of the Washington University in St. Louis Newsroom, March 1 2006. Researchers from Washington University completed this study, saying that frequent quizzes may help students in terms of understanding and retaining information.

GSCC faculty, in the Student Context: Whole Person thread, brought in this article, which as mentioned in either ped circle of Coffee Klatch, as part of a discussion on quizzes.

By Marjane Satrapi. New York: Pantheon, Books (2003). "An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country."

Shared in Pedagogy Cafe. This book was an option for Professor Helvie's College Reading class, but not one of the books selected by students.

on the Testing Center, York College - The City University of New York. Five scoring categories: 1. "Critical Response to the Writing Task and Text" 2."Development of Writer's Ideas": 3. Structure of the Response" 4. "Language Use: Sentences and Word Choice" 5. "Language Use: Grammar, Usage, Mechanics"

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment as an assessment rubric used.

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DW mentions in Pedagogy Matters! Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action.

Carrie Glaser; Shae Issaacs; Jon Merrow; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); Learning Matters, etc. New York, NY; Learning Matters, Inc; Alexandria, VA: Distributed by PBS Home Video (2007). Documentary explores the paradoxes of the nation's 1200 community colleges.

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto.

By Mike Rose. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan (1989) Book Description:"Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda.

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto.

By Nicholas Gage, collected in New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking by Peter S. Gardner (via Google Books). Make sure that you are on page 88 for the Gage essay. This material is under copyright, so the full essay is not available here. Check with your local library for access to the full essay.

Presented as a reading assignment, discussed in the Faculty Skills and Attributes: Passion thread.

By Joe Sacco. New York: Metropolitan Books (2009). Story of a massacre in Rafah in 1956, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip.

Shared in Pedagogy Cafe. One of several books selected by students in Prof. Helvie's College Reading Class.

Mashable.com is a very popular site for learning more about important social media tools, with information on trends, lists (e.g. 11 Essential Social Media Resources You Might Have Missed), and how-tos, included guides to Twitter and Facebook.

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.

By Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Ed, December 11, 2009. In mid-December, 2009 the annual meeting of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education focused on assessments. This Inside Higher Ed article recaps the conversation at the meeting about the need to use assessments and tips on how to do so.