Posts Tagged ‘Albert DeCiccio’
College Tries “Mini-mesters” and More to Improve Readiness
by Karen Gross and Albert DeCiccio
June 4, 2010
The Vermont Community Foundation’s 2009 report on postsecondary education asserts that college graduates live longer, healthier, more lucrative lives than their peers who did not graduate college. But the report is harsh in its assessment of the readiness of Vermont high school students for college, revealing that: one in three juniors is not proficient in ...
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Can the Writing Center Reverse the New Racism?
by Albert DeCiccio
August 24, 2012
Writing center workers are agents of change whose practices might reverse the resegregation and new racism occurring in our country. As leaders in the academy who advance a pedagogy of hope, writing center workers model a practice for bringing about a lasting and abundant multicultural community.
Starting with the writing center at the University of Iowa ...
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