Posts Tagged ‘Community College of Vermont’
Book Review: Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent
by Alan R. Earls
December 12, 2010
Harnessing America's Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning, Peter Smith, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2010
In 1970, I was a high school student in a suburban New England town. The invasion of Cambodia and the shootings at Kent State had brought spectacular illumination to the end of the academic year and dimmed hopes that the war ...
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Implementing System-Level Graduation Standards
by Carol A. Moore and Karrin E. Wilks
November 21, 2011
Driven by external pressure for increased accountability and internal pressure for improved learning outcomes, colleges across the country have been developing and refining assessment systems for several decades. In some cases, assessment results have significant positive impact, for example, when used to enhance teaching and learning or as a lever for organizational change. In ...
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