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Remedial Courses in College Stir Questions Over Cost, Effectiveness. Warnings from the Trenches. You are a college professor. I have just retired as a high school teacher. I have some bad news for you. In case you do not already see what is happening, I want to warn you of what to expect from the students who will be arriving in your classroom, even if you teach in a highly selective institution.

No Child Left Behind went into effect for the 2002–03 academic year, which means that America’s public schools have been operating under the pressures and constrictions imposed by that law for a decade. Since the testing requirements were imposed beginning in third grade, the students arriving in your institution have been subject to the full extent of the law’s requirements. Troubling Assessments My primary course as a teacher was government, and for the last seven years that included three or four (out of six) sections of Advanced Placement (AP) US Government and Politics.

I mentioned that at least half my students were in AP classes. A Teacher’s Plea Where do I begin? Two community colleges get serious about working with K12. The growing crisis of students arriving at college unprepared to do college-level work has led to plenty of finger-pointing between high school and college educators. But two community colleges have learned that better collaboration with local high schools may be the best way to dramatically reduce the number of students who fall into the quagmire of remedial coursework.

Long Beach City College has worked closely with the Long Beach Unified School District so it can experiment with using high school grades to help determine whether incoming students have remedial needs -- a shift from instead relying heavily on standardized placement tests. And according to newly available data from the college, an initial group of 1,000 students from Long Beach high schools who were placed with this new method were far more likely to take and pass credit-bearing, transfer-level courses at the college than their peers the previous year. Building Trust Even so, the work isn’t easy. As California Goes. The Co-Op Experience - Professional Practice (Co-Op)

What Do Purdue Professional Practice Students Do? As a Purdue Professional Practice student, you will learn what a professional in your field does -- by doing it. As you progress in the Professional Practice Program, you will find yourself performing jobs that you would expect to do after graduation. Your position and responsibilities will change through the course of your Professional Practice experience as you become better able to handle increasing diversity, responsibility, and levels of challenge in your work sessions. Which Employers Participate? Most employers who recruit graduates from Purdue also participate in the Co-Op program.

Purdue's Co-Op Program works with about 500 employers from all parts of the nation in a wide variety of activities. Purdue's Co-Op program is truly nationwide. The lists below include all of our "Active" Co-Op employers who have recruited or hired Co-Op students within in the last five years, but are not necessarily recruiting or hiring at this time. Pressed to bridge the skills gap, colleges and corporations try to get along. By Jon Marcus WARWICK, R.I. — Angel Gavidia worked as a construction worker, an auto detailer and a taxi dispatcher before he found his calling as a computer-networking engineer, a high-paying job for which employers are desperately short of workers even at a time of stubborn unemployment. Community College of Rhode Island He found his way in spite of community-college advisors who at first steered him into other fields of so little interest to him that he quit school. Then Gavidia was accepted to a program in which an IT-services company called Atrion collaborates with the Community College of Rhode Island to help students get both a classroom education and on-the-job training.

The model, under which Gavidia worked as an apprentice at the company while taking on-campus courses, gave him a huge head start to a job by teaching him the real-world skills employers want but say they often can’t find in college graduates. Brian Rosenberg, president of Macalester College in St. Forget the term paper: These students write Wikipedia articles for class credit. Most self-respecting graduate students are loath to admit how often they use Wikipedia. That may change, however, if more teachers start following the lead of professor Gunseli Berik’s class at the University of Utah. In lieu of a term paper, her students are writing articles for the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

The goal is to fill in Wikipedia’s knowledge gaps and also to provide some balance for the site’s well-publicized gender disparity problem. "They had to identify gaps on Wikipedia," Berik, an economics professor, told KSL. It’s tempting to laugh off Berik’s idea. "It's not going to end up in the dust bin at the end of the semester, or in a drawer,” Berik told KSL. Beyond that, Wikipedia is collaborative by nature, and student articles will need to stand up to more than Berik’s critique: They’ll have meet the standards of the encyclopedia’s legions of volunteers. Berik first ran the experiment last spring. Photo via KSL. Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College Students :: WIDE Research Center, Michigan State University.

Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research is a research area operating within the context of MATRIX. WIDE’s maintains its historical focus on creating new knowledge about digital communication, and we remain committed to results that have impact via academic literatures and via more public outcomes, such as events, performances, and software. Player not working? There is a known iOS and Android bug or download file. iOS, Safari and some Android environments will not properly prompt you for a password if this video is password protected. But, if you click the 'Download Video' link, it will then prompt you for a password. You can then save this password into your browser/keychain if you wish, and in future visits to this (or other videos on this site) it should work.

Also, directly downloading and opening the downloaded video file should work in all cases. If you are having problems with the 'download file' link right-click on the link and choose 'Save As..' or 'Save Link As..' What Do 3 Million Job Openings Tell Us About the Skills Gap? | The Exchange. By Maureen Conway This post is part of an Aspen Institute Business & Society Program conversation series exploring ways to align the incentives of business and the capital markets with the long-term health of society. To learn more, visit www.aspenbsp.org. At last report, there were approximately 3.6 million jobs open in the U.S., and the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported more than three million openings at the end of each month for over a year now.

In a context of high unemployment, many conclude that this figure must mean that employers cannot find workers with the appropriate skills for the jobs that are open—that is, that there is a "skills gap".[1] In looking more carefully at the job openings numbers, however, this conclusion seems unfounded. What Do We Know About the Available Jobs? The reported number of job openings comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, courtesy of a monthly establishment survey called the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey or JOLTS.