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Direct linkBerrett, Dan – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Potential students hoping to gauge the quality of courses at Portland State University might be forgiven for feeling confused. On the one hand, the University Studies program, which uses interdisciplinary seminars during the first two years to develop students' core skills, has been widely praised and emulated. The Council for Higher Education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Differences
Download full textOffenstein, Jeremy; Shulock, Nancy – Jobs for the Future, 2010
As educators, government officials, and foundations leaders have embraced the agenda of dramatically increasing college success and credential completion, they have come to understand the need for better data on student outcomes to guide the improvement efforts of institutions, systems, and states. The data on degree completion and other final…
Descriptors: Credits, Accountability, Higher Education, Educational Objectives
The Learning Communities Demonstration: Rationale, Sites, and Research Design. An NCPR Working Paper
Peer reviewedVisher, Mary G.; Wathington, Heather; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Schneider, Emily – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2008
Learning communities are a popular strategy that community colleges nationwide have embraced in support of developmental students. In a learning community, a cohort of students takes two or more courses linked by integrated themes and assignments that are developed through ongoing faculty collaboration. While the number of learning community…
Descriptors: Research Design, Community Colleges, Community Programs, College Programs
Crandell, Dorothy – 1981
A description, analysis, and evaluation are provided of the Career Development Network (CDN), a collaborative project involving 6 State University of New York (SUNY) community colleges, 7 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors, the New York Department of Labor, local program centers and social service agencies, and about…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Price, Hugh B. – Brookings Institution, 2007
This Opportunity 08 position paper advises that the next President of the United States should focus on lifting the achievement levels of our nation's schoolchildren. It recommends that the new President should mount a determined effort, together with states and local school districts, to boost the academic performance of low achievers by: (1)…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Educational Change, Achievement Gains, School Districts
Mosenthal, Peter B.; Hinchman, Kathleen A. – 1993
An evaluation of this Syracuse, New York workplace literacy skills improvement project had three purposes: to characterize changes in the baseline performance of adults' workplace literacy skills as a function of instructional treatment; to characterize changes in workers' and supervisors' perceptions of worker effectiveness as a function of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
