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Math Matters: MDRC's Projects in Math for Low-Income Students, from Preschool to College
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MDRC, 2015
In an increasingly technological world, developing basic math skills is crucial. Headlines regularly be-moan the international ranking of American students on math proficiency, and students from low-income families do worse in math than their more affluent peers. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment in occupations…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Low Income Groups, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Math: Impact Studies at Queensborough and Houston Community Colleges
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Weissman, Evan; Butcher, Kristin F.; Schneider, Emily; Teres, Jedediah; Collado, Herbert; Greenberg, David – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2011
Queensborough Community College and Houston Community College are two large, urban institutions that offer learning communities for their developmental math students, with the goals of accelerating students' progress through the math sequence and of helping them to perform better in college and ultimately earn degrees or certificates. They are…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Educational Research, Developmental Studies Programs
Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Math: Impact Studies at Queensborough and Houston Community Colleges. Executive Summary
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Weissman, Evan; Butcher, Kristin F.; Schneider, Emily; Teres, Jedediah; Collado, Herbert; Greenberg, David – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2011
Queensborough Community College and Houston Community College are two large, urban institutions that offer learning communities for their developmental math students, with the goals of accelerating students' progress through the math sequence and of helping them to perform better in college and ultimately earn degrees or certificates. They are…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Educational Research, Developmental Studies Programs
Integrating Technology into the Developmental Mathematics Classroom: A WebQuest
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Salsovic, Annette – NADE Digest, 2007
Although the WebQuest has been around for several years, it appears that not many educators are aware of it, or know how to use it. Thus, it is important to not only expose developmental educators to the use of this strategy, but also to help them realize how they can easily implement it into their curriculum. The use of a Webquest integrates…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Web Based Instruction, Educational Technology, Developmental Studies Programs
The Rx for Remedial College Math: Learning Communities.
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Cantone, Kathleen A. – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2001
States that cooperative learning in developmental mathematics classes has greater success rates than do traditional remedial courses. Discusses learning communities--in which instructors work with other instructors to help students connect mathematics with other disciplines, and in which there is an increased level of peer interaction--as an…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning, Developmental Studies Programs
Faculty-Counselor Collaboration in the Developmental Classroom: A How-To Manual.
Reynolds, Mary Anne, Ed. – 1981
This teacher's manual, designed to improve the math and writing skills and self-images of entering college students, offers a model for faculty-counselor collaboration within the developmental classroom and focuses on affective and cognitive learning. The first chapter provides an administrative strategy for encouraging faculty-counselor…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Mathematics, College Students, Community Colleges