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Successfully addressing college readiness: Real students, real voices
Panel from Amy Beihl High School Governor Richardson’s Higher Education Summit October 2, 2009
Panelists include HS Director, senior class supervisor, UNM Dean of University College
AB is a charter school focused on service and scholarship. All AB grads have completed 2 college courses (CNM or UNM). All students also have service learning linked with this. Goal is to add relevancy to HS experience. 98% grads have gone on to further study. read more »
New Mexico's Electronic Student Management System — Carve your path
Joel Nudi, New Mexico Public Education Department
Suzan Reagan, Department of Workforce Solutions
Steve Oizumi, New Mexico Higher Education Department
October 1, 2009
Governor Richardson’s Higher Education Summit
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Digital textbooks (FREE!) from Flat World Knowledge
Wired magazine reports on the growth in open source textbooks from Flat World Knowledge. The price is right: FREE!
Transtions to college, distance education
- A story in the Dallas Morning News reports that over 50% of graduates at some Texas high schools are not prepared for college and earn less than a 2.0 GPA.
- And the US Deparment of Education reported that the Anchorage public schools will get $1.2 million to help Native students stay in school and on a path to college and careers. read more »
Online Learning, at a Pace
A recent Inside Higher Ed article discusses a new trend in learning—SpacedEd.com—which involves interaction via email and RSS feed. The research behind SpacedEd, developed by B. Price Kerfoot, an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, indicates that students were able to boost their knowledge based on the frequency they encountered the information.
Taking Notes Beyond the Classroom
Open source note sharing programs continue to grow in popularity for college courses. Starting with MIT's OpenCourseWare in 2001, it continues to gain momentun, despite the controversy surrounding it.
Inside Higher Ed article, Taking Notes Beyond the Classroom, talks about the "questionable factuality," the blurred lines between cheating vs.
sharing, and the rights of professors' intellectual property.
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First-generation college students: an update on their plans, interests, and needs
Don Munce: He is a first-generation college student. Dad got 6-week certificate in accounting using GI bill. All of college talk was completely new to him, as with first-gen students today.
Steven LaNasa, President, Donnelly College, Kansas City
Our future depends on our ability to serve needs of first-generation college students. Serving them has a butterfly effect. First-gen students are unique across ethnic groups. They are often not targeted as a unique group, rather as part of an ethnic cohort. read more »
Working College Students: Two Conflicting Studies
As college costs rise, more college students are forced to work now than ever before. Although it is assumed that working more hours gives students less time to study and therefore, gives the students a disadvantage, here are two conflicting studies of this argument. read more »
Education Dept. Plan Would Make It Easier to Apply for Student Aid
A plan to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is on the verge of being revealed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan. They are taking three main steps to see this plan into fruition: read more »
Colleges Should Start Planning Now for 'Net Price' Calculators, Experts Say
It is more than simply posting the price of tuition and a meal plan to their website. Colleges all over the nation need to start thinking about the actual cost to attend their institution. A recent federal requirement mandates that within two years all institutions need to post the net price of attending their school to their website. read more »
