Many at-risk college students with low literacy skills must pass a required reading test to demonstrate their level of proficiency in handling college-level material. This study investigated the effectiveness of […]
The Argument for Kindles in Schools “The Kindle’s proprietary document format means textbooks can’t be ported easily, and its browser is inadequate for anything but cursory use. And, as the […]
More White-Collar Workers Turn to Community Colleges By STEVEN GREENHOUSE New York Times When Wendy Scarbrough lost her job after 10 years as a television news producer for NBC, she […]
Think Again, A blog by Stanley Fish in the New York Times: What Should Colleges Teach? A few years ago, when I was grading papers for a graduate literature course, […]
If you open the link at the end of this post, you can view the graphic for the age group 15-24 (as well as other demographics), and then slide along […]
This study is worth a read – the results indicate that their sample of 171 students self-stated as having intermediate to high computer skills, were less proficient than they thought […]
The truth about grit – The Boston Globe Posted using ShareThis
