|
|
 |
MDRC in the News |
|
| |
 |
|
| |
 |
Remedial Program 'Opening Doors'
New York Daily News,
April 01, 2008
Ismael Pena arrived at Kingsborough Community College last fall unable to write well enough to keep up with his classwork. After a few months in a highly touted program that is being copied around the country, Pena, 20, passed a required English test with flying colors...
| |
| |
|
Learning Communities Help Academics
Minnesota Daily,
March 27, 2008
Move-in day at University residential halls can be hectic, but for 1,000 first-year University students who move into a learning community, at least they know they'll have one thing in common...
| |
| |
|
At Community Colleges, a Call to Meet New Students at the Front Door
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
March 28, 2008
Community-college students, like students anywhere, begin to form their impressions of an institution the instant they set foot on its campus. And often what they find during those first few weeks can determine whether they come back for more — or turn heel and leave...
| |
| |
|
Investment in Improved Learning
The Chronicle Review,
March 17, 2008
For too long, discussion of access to higher education has been dominated by a belief that what is required is more public money for student aid...
| |
| |
|
Taking Courses As a Group Helps Community College Students Succeed, Study Finds
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
March 11, 2008
Learning communities — linked courses that enroll a common group of students and are paired with enhanced services — increase the academic success of community-college students, according to a new report. Learning communities' effect on student retention, however, was less clear...
| |
| |
|
Promising Path on Remediation
Inside Higher Ed,
March 11, 2008
Remedial education remains a struggle for many community colleges, which are expected to help students who received inadequate high school educations get ready for college-level work...
| |
| |
|
Extra Literacy Class Helps Struggling Readers--Some
Education Week,
February 14, 2008
A federal study suggests that giving struggling 9th grade readers an extra literacy class can boost their reading-comprehension skills, but not dramatically enough to get them up to grade level by the end of a single school year. The findings came this month in the first of three reports to be issued under the Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study, a federal program that is testing promising strategies for low-performing adolescent readers in 34 high schools across the country...
| |
| |
|
Money--With Strings--to Fight Poverty
Science,
February 08, 2008
In 1995, the peso’s devaluation plunged Mexico into its worst economic crisis in half a century. For years, the government had helped those in poverty by subsidizing the price of staples such as tortillas and milk...
| |
| |
|
Rethinking Remedial Education
Inside Higher Ed,
January 29, 2008
Katie Hern was surprised in fall of ’05 when only 55 percent of her remedial English students passed the course. Not that it was a surprising figure...
| |
| |
|
Bloomberg Incentive Chases King's Dream
USA Today,
January 25, 2008
"I have a dream" will forever be linked with the man whose life we celebrated this month. But let's not forget that Martin Luther King Jr. also said, "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has risen to King's challenge by investing in those less fortunate...
| |
|
|
