Higher Ed Slidedeck worth reviewing
This is from the Gates Foundation – how they view the achievement gap: Next Generation Learning and the Innovation Imperative View more presentations from PostsecondaryImprovement.
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Vision Project Feedback
At BCC, we need to collect information on the MA Secretary of Education’s Vision Project recommendations, and here are ways you can contribute. Read about the Vision Project here: http://bit.ly/anShKR […]
Gainful Employment Regulation Update
On September 24, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would issue final regulations on gainful employment in early 2011, rather than by November 1, 2010. The Department made […]
White House Summit Closing Session
You can view the closing session here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2010/10/05/community-college-summit-closing-session Here is the “ideas” bulletin board again, on which you can post and vote on ideas presented. [Scroll down the page for […]
Massachusetts Higher Ed Commissioner Concerned About Public Higher Ed
The link below is a short audio of an interview played on WFCR Amherst, MA public radio this morning. The Commissioner focused on the gap between increasing public higher ed […]
Professional Day Evaluations
Evaluations of the professional day “Promoting Civility and Shared Responsibility in the Classroom: Tools and Strategies for Success” have been compiled and are available under the “Evaluation” tab, above. Overall, […]
Comm Colleges Affected by New Fed Rules
There will be a webinar on the new regs in the CTL on Tue, Aug 24, 3pm. A couple that may impact us are the “gainful employment” terms, and the […]
Scores Stagnate at High Schools – WSJ.com
This Wall Street Journal article confirms what many in the classroom are already aware of: high school students are largely unprepared for college work. The data is from the ACT, […]
Series on Plagiarism – NYTimes.com
Below is the link to a whole NYT series on Plagiarism. BCC is looking into adopting a plagiarism student tutorial in Moodle. An instructor could opt to suggest or require […]
What happened to studying?
This is well worth reading. A new study shows decline in study hours (from 24 to 14 hours/week), but the authors of this article do a nice exploration of possible […]
